FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Baseball Hall of Famer Roy Halladay had high levels of amphetamines in his system and was doing extreme acrobatics when he lost control of his small plane and nosedived into the Gulf of Mexico in 2017, killing him, a National Transportation Safety Board report issued Wednesday said. Halladay had amphetamine […]
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Cook Islands Police hit organised crime
RAROTONGA, 23 DECEMBER 2019 — Success of a combined operation strengthens resolve to target drugs. Six people in the Cook Islands and New Zealand have been charged with offences involving drugs and a gun. The six were arrested as a result of coordinated operations by police in both countries targeting transnational organised crime. Three arrests […]
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Parental marijuana use was associated with elevated risk of substance use among adolescent and young adult offspri
On Friday, JAMA Network Open published critical information for parents across the nation. The article indicates that recent and past parental marijuana use confers a heightened risk for use of marijuana and other substances by adolescent and young adult offspring who live in the same household. The article was completed by the U.S. Substance Abuse […]
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Boat with bullet hole washed up on Ulawa island in Solomon Islands laden with ‘huge’ load of cocaine, cannabis
HONIARA, 04 NOVEMBER 2019 (ISLAND SUN) —An aluminium boat laden with narcotics and scarred with bullet hole has washed up ashore at Rupo beach, Ulawa island, Makira-Ulawa province in Solomon Islands. Report reaching the paper says the shocked villagers, last Thursday, discovered the trashed boat with marijuana and white powder, which they believed to be […]
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Drug Enforcement Director’s car burned, suspected to be link to drug cases
The Director of the Narcotics Enforcement Agency (NEA) Ismael Aguon’s personal vehicle was set on fire by an unknown individual last week Friday dawn. The vehicle, a Ford Expedition, was parked outside of the NEA office near the building and set on fire around 2am that Friday morning damaging all parts of the car. The […]
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Taiwan cannot be absent from the global fight against transnational crime
Taiwan serves as key geopolitical hub in East and Southeast Asia. The World Drug Report 2018[1]published by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) pointed out that North America, East Asia and Southeast Asia are key regions in the production and consumption of amphetamine. Furthermore, the UNODC report entitled Transnational Organized Crime in […]