A 23 year old man from Thornton Heath has been jailed for seven years after being found in possession of a handgun, heroin and cocaine.

Lerone Vincent from Nutfield Road was stopped in his car by police in Croydon last October, who searched the vehicle and found the incriminating items.

Vincent, 23, of Thornton Heath. Image: Met Police.

Vincent was arrested at the scene and charged the following day with the drugs and firearms offences.

He was remanded in custody and appeared at Croydon Crown Court on Monday, 19 January, where he pleaded guilty to all four offences.

Detective Constable Troy Benn, from the Met’s Trident Gang Crime Command, who investigated the case, said:

This result came about from the good work of the Safer Transport officers who spotted Vincent acting suspiciously as he was driving his car. When they pulled up behind him, he sped off and no-doubt tried…

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Accused arrived in Madrid from Sao Paolo, Brazil
A Portuguese mom tried to smuggle $80,000 worth of cocaine into Spain by hiding it in her hair extensions and wig, police said.

Cops stopped the woman when she arrived at Madrid’s Barajas Adolfo Suarez Airport on a flight from Sao Paulo in Brazil last week, reports ABC.

They singled her out for a search due to her suspicious behavior.

And officers then allegedly found nine packets of the illegal narcotic interwoven with her wig and her hair.

Some 1.9-pounds of cocaine was discovered, according to a National Police press statement.

The woman, who is thought to have been using her three-year-old daughter as a decoy, had to have the drugs hacked out of her hair.

« Drug traffickers are using all sorts of imaginative measures and objects to disguise drugs, » a police spokesman told ABC.

« Among the most unlikely are cans…

The cocaine business in Colombia has been declining.

Cocaine has been a huge part of Colombia or years, but now cocaine countries Peru and Bolivia are surpassing it. With pressure from the US, Colombian officials underwent massive projects to destroy the coca bushes that cover the mountainous regions with police action and herbicides.

This decline in Colombia and rise in Peru and Bolivia is described as the balloon effect: As one part is squeezed and contracted, the other part enlarges.

This cocaine business will continue to be circle around until it is stamped out everywhere at the same time.

You can view the full article on what’s happening and what’s being done here.

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NASHVILLE – As part of a joint investigation involving the Clarksville Police Department and DEA Task Force, Special Agents in the TBI’s Drug Investigation Division have obtained indictments for 27 people in connection to a significant drug operation in the Clarksville area.

The investigation into the operation began in April 2012. To date, authorities have seized more than three kilograms of cocaine, five firearms, several ounces of marijuana, eight vehicles, and more than $30,000 in cash.

Today, with the assistance of the U.S. Marshals Task Force, authorities arrested the following 16 individuals, who were subsequently booked into the Montgomery County Jail on a variety of bond amounts. At the time of this release, photographs of these subjects were not available.

1. TYRONE DARELL HOOSIER, 45, Clarksville – Conspiracy to Distribute 300 Grams of Cocaine, Manufacture of Schedule II Controlled Substance, Possession for Resale of Schedule II Controlled Substance, Money Laundering, Unlawful…

A grandson of Albania’s late communist dictator was among eight people arrested in connection with a major drugs busting operation whose investigation started in Germany.

In a major drugs busting operation near Elbasan, 40 km south of Tirana, police seized more than 19.5 kg of pure cocaine and 20 kg of of chemical elements used to mix the cocaine.

“Our investigation discovered a structured international criminal enterprise with activities from Latin America into the Balkans and Western Europe,” police said.

“This criminal enterprise recruited two Columbian citizens as experts in the elaboration of the narcotic substances,” police added.

The police also seized about 360,000 euros along with a cache of guns and ammunitions.

Initial information that lead to the seizure and arrests was provided by the German authorities, the Albanian police noted.

Eight suspects, including two Columbian citizens, were arrested. Local media noted that among them was Ermal Hoxha, 40…

The Berkutovtsy were heroes… fighting far-right neofascist fanatics bankrolled by the USA and by diaspora Galicians… evil is evil, and calling yourself « Christian » doesn’t cancel it.

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On Friday, former Ukrainian Minister of Internal Affairs V Yu Zakharchenko told reporters in Sevastopol that outside parties smuggled weapons and drugs to the Euromaidantsy protestors in the autumn and winter of 2013-14, saying, “Firstly they issued appeals to bring arms from home. Secondly, intelligence came that foreign weapons started flowing to the Maidan… short-barrelled, automatic, and handguns. Thirdly, large-scale theft at police stations and warehouses in the Western Ukraine began, triggering appeals from the stage [on Maidan] to open fire”. The MVDU began to analyse reports, but failed to document facts and institute cases. Zakharchenko said, “Arms supplies went through Moldova and the Black Sea. We knew the individuals who were delivering them and handing out, but we couldn’t arrest them, as…