The Michigan State Police announced Thursday that troopers have visited more than 3,500 retail stores statewide since late June in an effort to raise awareness that it is illegal to buy, sell or possess K2 or other synthetic drugs. Although most retailers were in compliance with the law, approximately 140 cases across the state are pending further investigation, according to ... Read More »
Daily Archives: July 27, 2012
Map of Operation Log Jam includes operations in San Juan Capistrano and Laguna Niguel.Credit Courtesy of Drug Enforcement Agency Photos UPDATE: 11:42 a.m. Patch has learned that a dramatic search warrant served in San Juan Capistrano Wednesday is tied to a nationwide “synthetic drug takedown,” as the Drug Enforcement Administration is calling it. A DEA map showing areas of operation for the ... Read More »
Police Bust Synthetic Drug Producers
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Law enforcement agencies across the country announced Thursday the results of the first nationwide sting against the producers of synthetic drugs. Police arrested more than 90 people and seized about 5 million packages of drugs. Synthetic drug use is on the rise, especially among young people. According to a 2011 survey by the University of Michigan, synthetic marijuana – also known ... Read More »
Police make local bath salts bust
VERONA TOWNSHIP — The Huron County Sheriff’s Office along with the Bad Axe Police Department made a large, bath salts-related drug bust on Joyce Drive on Tuesday afternoon. After serving a search warrant, authorities entered the residence to find three individuals present, with one appearing to be in the process of injecting a substance into their arm. Used, new and loaded ... Read More »
Detectives Ron Garrison (back left) and Ross Partee (front left), and officer Megan DeWitt (back right), of the Vero Beach Police Department, escort Kiritbathi Patel, owner of Jimmy’s G.K. Foodmart, to the back of a waiting police car after a raid at his business Tuesday afternoon. Detectives found 72 packets of ‘spice’, three firearms and over $61,000 in cash at ... Read More »
Hillsborough raids part of nationwide sweep of “spice” labs
Tampa, Florida – Six warehouses in Hillsborough County were raided Wednesday during a nationwide sweep of synthetic “spice” marijuana labs. At a warehouse space on 12th Avenue East near Ybor, the sweet, fruity smell still lingers in the air this morning. Federal and local agents say they seized millions of dollars worth of the product and cash. “We’ve obviously got ... Read More »
Millions of dollars worth of synthetic drugs confiscated
Around five million packets of synthetic drugs have been seized. Everything from spice to bath salts have been picked up in raids across the nation as part of Operation Log Jam, the first ever nationwide action against the production and sale of synthetic drugs. Thousands of those drugs came from Hancock County. Numerous complaints from citizens and local hospitals, treating patients ... Read More »
Federal authorities crack down on synthetic drugs
In the first national crackdown on the burgeoning synthetic drug industry, federal drug agents have arrested 90 people and seized more than 5 million packets of the drugs, which may affect ongoing investigations in Wisconsin, authorities said Thursday. The operation, launched by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, targeted synthetic drugs often marked as bath salts, incense, plant food or Spice, ... Read More »
Big drug raids target ‘spice’ sellers, marijuana growers in cornfield
Idaho has seen two major drug raids in the last 24 hours, as federal authorities raided 11 locations in Twin Falls County in a crackdown on selling “spice,” or synthetic marijuana; and Idaho State Police detectives, along with aerial support, raided 12 marijuana grow sites in a Gooding County cornfield, pulling 3,684 marijuana plants that ISP said have an estimated ... Read More »
45,000 spice packets confiscated in recent drug sweep
Federal Drug Enforcement Administration agents confiscated more than 45,000 packets of synthetic cannabis, or so-called “spice” from Albuquerque sellers as part of Wednesday’s drug sweep. The agents said everything from the way spice is made to the way it is tested is illegal, calling it drug dealing in stores. But Independent Small Retail Business Association President Jerry Sedillo, who spoke ... Read More »
City joins crusade to ban fake pot
Pompano Beach became the most recent South Florida municipality to curb the sale of “herbal incense,” a designer drug that many are calling synthetic marijuana. The City Commission approved a new ban ordinance on June 26 on second reading. “It was passed with the definition excluding tobacco and food seasonings,” said City Attorney Gordon Linn. However, the devil may be ... Read More »
Synthetic marijuana abuse growing, officials say
By Jessica Cohen Over the last year, synthetic marijuana has become the wild card in “substance abuse cocktails” in the Port Jervis area, landing teens and adults in intensive care units for days at a time, local officials say. The drug is a combination of herbs, spices and cannabanoids, chemically related to cannabis, according to the New York state Office of ... Read More »
Cities joining legal crusade to ban fake pot, ‘bath salts’
Cities are joining a legal crusade to ban bath salts and synthetic marijuana. (Sarah Dussault, Sun Sentinel ) June 28, 2012|By Susannah Bryan, Sun Sentinel SUNRISE — Synthetic marijuana has been in the cross hairs of cities waging their own war against synthetic drugs. Now it’s bath salts, the designer drug meant to mimic cocaine. The ban movement was already ... Read More »
Local, national crackdown on synthetic drugs
CHARLOTTE COUNTY - From teens in Charlotte County protesting a convenience store, to the DEA busting at least 90 people who sell these designer drugs, there is a crackdown on synthetic drugs. Thursday, teens took their concerns about synthetic drugs to the street. They were protesting RJR – a convenience store that Drug Free Charlotte County Director Amity Chandler says ... Read More »
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