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About the war on drugs

Posted by Sip Hop on September 20, 2011 at 10:17am
People have their own opinions about the war on drugs and the outcome of it. even though the government brought drugs to united states to bring the black panthers movement down, but saying that afrcan americans is the reason for the war on drugs. This here is the resource and income of the drug product.
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DMX Moved To Mental Health Facility

Posted by ChasinDatPaper on December 28, 2010 at 10:24am

12348727497?profile=originalRapper Earl Simmons, better known as DMX, is housed in a mental-health unit at an Arizona State Prison Complex facility called Alhambra near 25th street and Van Buren.

DMX was sentenced to a year in jail (minus 113 days served) on December 16, after he pleaded guilty to violating the terms of his probation. At his sentencing, Judge Christine Mulleneaux told him she believes he has "an undiagnosed mental condition," possibly bi-polar disorder.

DMX's manager, Nakia Walker, wouldn't comment specifically on whether DMX might have a mental disorder, but she says she wasn't surprised when he was moved to a mental-health unit. The rapper himself always has refused to comment on speculation about his mental state. In 2001, he threatened to beat up writer William Shaw for asking about it in a Blender magazine interview. "Waaaay too personal," DMX said.

The embattled hip-hop star is incarcerated for the 13th time. His record includes more than 25 arrests across the nation, 11 felony convictions, and 15 misdemeanor convictions.

Arizona Department of Corrections files confirm that DMX was admitted to the Flamenco Mental Health Unit at Alhambra on December 20. According to Walker, he will not be allowed to have visitors for 30 days.

 

Source: Pheonix New Times

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Ex-wife of 'American Gangster' Frank Lucas charged with selling drugs.

Posted by RAPPERS I.Q ? on May 21, 2010 at 9:41am

Old habits apparently die hard.

The ex-wife of infamous drug kingpin Frank Lucas -- whose murderous exploits inspired the movie "American Gangster" -- has been charged with conspiring to sell two kilos of cocaine in Puerto Rico.

Julianna Farrait-Rodri guez allegedly took up her ex-hubby's role and tried to peddle the drugs "with the goal of sending them to be sold on the New York City streets while she is in comfort 2,200 miles away," said Drug Enforce ment Administration Spe cial Agent in Charge John Gilbride.

"They say life imitates art and this arrest proves the point yet again," Gil bride said.



PARTNERS IN CRIME: Julianna Farrait-Rodriguez, ex-wife of Harlem racketeer Frank "American Gangster" Lucas, in custody in Puerto Rico yesterday on charges of trying to sell cocaine to a fed informant.
Farrait-Rodriguez, 63, was busted Wednesday evening after allegedly handing over the coke to a government infor mant in exchange for $60,000, sources said.

"Apparently, she needed the money," a source said.

Court papers say the former beauty queen had been under investigation since at least February 2009, when she offered to sell the informant cocaine from a supplier in Atlanta. She was portrayed as "Eva" by Puerto Rico-born stunner Lymari Nadal in the 2007 film, which starred Denzel Washington as Lucas.

Their Spanish-language conversation, which took place in Manhattan, was secretly recorded by the informant, as was another meeting last July during which Farrait-Rodriguez allegedly said she could hook up the informant with a "cocaine transporter" in Puerto Rico.

And during a series of phone calls earlier this month, she told him to come to the Caribbean island to pick up two kilos she had waiting for him, along with eight others being held by an unidentified co-conspirator, the papers say.

After the two met inside a hotel room in Isla Verde, Puerto Rico, DEA agents conducting surveillance said they "observed Farrait-Rodriguez remove what appeared . . . to be two kilograms of cocaine from a bag." At that point, the informant "gave a pre-arranged signal" for the agents to move in and arrest her.

Farrait-Rodriguez had previously pleaded guilty in 1975 to tossing suitcases stuffed with $585,000 out a bathroom window during a drug raid on the Teaneck, NJ, home she shared with Lucas.

Yesterday, she was ordered held without bail during a court appearance in Puerto Rico.

It was unclear when she would be brought to New York to face the complaint filed against her in Manhattan federal court.

Her ex-husband -- who made millions as one of the city's biggest dealers during the heroin epidemic of the late 1960s and early '70s -- was sentenced to 70 years in the slammer after his Harlem-based "Country Boys" racket was busted, but he served only 12 years after cooperating with authorities.

"American Gangster" told the story of the improbable friendship that developed between Lucas and the cop who busted him, Richie Roberts, who was portrayed by Russell Crowe.

Lucas, now 79 and living in Newark, is wheelchair-bound and has written a memoir, "Original Gangster: The Real Life Story of One of America's Most Notorious Drug Lords," set for release next month.



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Mexican Marines Kill Mexico's # 3 Most Wanted Drug Kingpin, The "Boss Of Bosses" After Bloody 2 Hour Gun Battle

Posted by ChasinDatPaper on December 17, 2009 at 3:00pm
Videos After The Jump CUERNAVACA, Mexico - Two hundred Mexican Navy marines stormed an upscale apartment complex and killed a reputed drug cartel chief in a two-hour gunbattle, one of the biggest victories yet in President Felipe Calderon's drug war. Arturo Beltran Leyva, the "boss of bosses," and six members of his cartel died in the shootout Wednesday in Cuernavaca, just south of Mexico City, according to a navy statement Thursday. The body of one cartel member was found on the ground outside the third-floor apartment, after he apparently committed suicide during the shootout. Cartel gunmen hurled grenades that killed one marine and wounded two others, one of whom is in serious condition, the navy said. Two women and one man were detained during the raid, and five assault weapons were seized. An Associated Press reporter at the scene heard at least 10 explosions during the firefight, which residents said lasted at least 90 minutes. Witnesses said the raid began when marines rappelled down ropes onto the roofs of some of the apartment buildings at dusk. Reporters were briefly allowed inside the apartment where Beltran Leyva's body still lay early Thursday; his skull and one arm were mangled by bullet wounds, and in one hand he clutched a large gold-colored medallion.

Arturo Beltran Leyva "First they were asked to surrender, but they didn't yield and they opened fire," said one of the ski-masked marines who participated in the raid, and who was not authorized to give his name. President Felipe Calderon, speaking from the Copenhagen climate summit, said "this action represents an important achievement for the government and people of Mexico, and a resounding blow against one of the most dangerous criminal organizations in Mexico, and on the continent." Calderon described Beltran Leyva as "one of the three most-wanted" drug suspects in Mexico. By most estimates, the other two — both still at large — are Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman and Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada.

Mexican soldiers escort an unidentified man during his presentation to the press in Mexico City, Thursday, Dec. 17, 2009. The suspect was arrested during an operation Wednesday in Cuernavaca, Mexico where, according to navy officials, drug cartel chief Arturo Beltran Leyva and three members of his cartel were slain in the shootout with sailors. (AP Photo/Miguel Tovar) Evacuations before attack Residents of the apartment complex said the raid appeared carefully planned. Sailors went door-to-door before the gun battle to quietly evacuate residents to the gym. Beltran Leyva is the highest-ranking figure taken down under Calderon, who has deployed more than 45,000 troops across Mexico to crush the cartels since taking office in December 2006. Mexico's navy often has been used in the battle as well. The offensive has earned Calderon praise from Washington even as 14,000 people have been killed in a wave of drug-related violence. Beltran Leyva had narrowly escaped attempts to arrest him in recent months, including a Friday raid on an alleged drug cartel holiday party at a mansion in the town of Tepotzlan, near Cuernavaca, where authorities killed three alleged Beltran Leyva cartel members and detained 11. They also detained Ramon Ayala, a Texas-based norteno singer whose band was playing at the party, on suspicion of ties to organized crime. His lawyer, Adolfo Vega, denied Ayala had ties to the Beltran Leyva gang, saying the singer didn't know his clients were drug traffickers. The last time Mexican authorities killed a major drug lord was in 2002, when Ramon Arellano Felix of the Tijuana Cartel was shot by a police officer in the Sinaloa resort of Mazatlan.

One of five brothers Beltran Leyva was one of five brothers from the Pacific coast state of Sinaloa who once worked side by side with Guzman, the leader of the Sinaloa Cartel. The brothers split with Guzman several years ago and aligned themselves with Los Zetas, a group of former soldiers hired by the rival Gulf Cartel as hit men. The split is believed to have fueled much of Mexico's bloodshed of recent years. One of the brothers, Alfredo Beltran Leyva, was arrested in January 2008. The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration says the Beltran Leyva cartel has smuggled tons of cocaine into the United States, as well as large quantities of heroin. The Mexican government had offered a $2.1 million reward for Beltran Leyva's capture. U.S. officials say the Beltran Leyva Cartel has carried out heinous killings, including numerous beheadings of rival traffickers or kidnappers invading what the gang considered its turf. The gang also has had great success in buying off public officials, including employees of the federal police and prosecutors, to protect their business and get tips on planned military raids. Beheadings U.S. officials say the Beltran Leyva Cartel has carried out heinous killings, including numerous beheadings. The gang also has had great success in buying off public officials, police and others to protect their business and get tips on planned military raids. The U.S government added Beltran Leyva and his cartel to the Foreign Narcotics Kingpin Designation Act last year, a movement that denied him access to the U.S. financial system. The state of Morelos, where Cuernavaca is located, and neighboring Guerrero have seen a spike in violence in recent months, with dozens of people killed. Some of the mutilated bodies have appeared with pieces of paper signed "Boss of Bosses," Beltran Leyva's nickname.

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Mister Softee driver busted for stopping ice cream truck to buy drugs

Posted by ChasinDatPaper on August 3, 2009 at 9:31am

NYDailyNews Reports A sweet tooth may have been the least of this guy's guilty pleasures. A Mister Softee ice cream truck driver was busted in Long Island for making one of his stops at a drug dealer's house to score dope, cops said on Sunday. Kenneth Leiton, 22, of Elmont, parked his ice cream truck on Newton St. in Westbury at 4:18 p.m. Saturday, according to Nassau County police. There was no playground in sight and Leiton was not hawking frozen desserts - he was the one making the buy. After plainclothes officers spotted him make the illicit exchange, Leiton was stopped and several bags of a powder presumed to be cocaine and a bag of marijuana were found in his truck, cops said. The ice cream man was charged with numerous counts of possession of a controlled substance and with endangering the welfare of a child. Also arrested was Randall Surmanek, 23, of Elmont, who was riding on the truck with him. Cops later collared the alleged drug dealer, Kerri Collins, 27, and Luis Castro, 29, who was at the same house with her.
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Nanny reveals tragic secret life of Michael Jackson "I had to pump drugs from his stomach so many times"

Posted by ChasinDatPaper on June 28, 2009 at 8:00am
Michael Jackson and nanny Grace Rwaramba along with two of his children

The nanny who became “mother” to Michael Jackson’s three children has told how she regularly had to pump his stomach to remove dangerous cocktails of drugs. Grace Rwaramba, 42, who flew from London to Los Angeles yesterday in the hope of being reunited with his children, has given a graphic account of the singer’s increasingly desperate final months. She paints a grim picture of Jackson, sometimes penniless but deluded about his “riches”, leading a nomadic life, moving from country to country and hotel to hotel, before allegedly falling under the increasing influence of the Nation of Islam, the extremist sect. “There was one period that it was so bad that I didn’t let the children see him . . . He always ate too little and mixed too much.” The nanny says she once called in the singer’s mother, Katherine, and sister, Janet, to attempt an “intervention”, trying to persuade the singer to come to terms with his addiction. Instead Jackson turned on her, accusing her of betraying him. “He didn’t want to listen; that was one of the times he let me go,” she said. Rwaramba, who is from Rwanda, worked for Jackson for more than a decade, starting as an office assistant before becoming nanny to his children, Michael Jr, known as Prince, aged 12; Paris, 11; and Prince Michael II, 7, nicknamed Blanket to distinguish him from his brother. She was dismissed for a final time last December but still went back to see the children. When she visited them in April she claims Jackson was so hard up she had to buy “happy birthday” balloons for Paris on her own credit card. On a previous occasion he had sent her to Florence to buy antiques for $1m. “We didn’t even have a home to live in. So we had to put the antiques in storage,” she said. Yesterday an official with the Los Angeles police revealed the singer had become “heavily addicted” to the powerful painkiller OxyContin and had received an injection of Demerol, another painkiller, an hour before his death. It is now almost certain the police will begin a full investigation into the singer’s death and that Rwaramba will be regarded as a witness. Coroners in the case said yesterday there was no suspicion of foul play but toxicology tests would take several weeks. One theory is that Jackson was taking an increasing amount of drugs to combat the stress of his forthcoming 50 concerts at the O2 in London. The nanny said: “Fifty performances! I told him . . . what are you doing? He said ‘I signed only for 10’. He didn’t know what he was signing. He never did.” Detectives have made contact with Dr Conrad Robert Murray, a cardiologist who was with Jackson at his rented mansion when he died, and have made clear they want to interview him. Police denied a report that they also want to talk to a second doctor. Police will also want to know whether early CPR (cardiopulmonary resuscitation) efforts to save the singer’s life were botched. On a tape of conversations between the Jackson home and the ambulance service, one of Jackson’s staff tells the dispatcher that Jackson is on the bed and that a “doctor is here”, meaning Murray. Medical experts say it is usual for the patient to be on a hard surface because it is difficult to compress the chest on a soft surface. The operator told the caller to “get him on the floor”. A car towed by police from Jackson’s home is registered in the name of Murray’s sister in Texas. Rwaramba claims the Nation of Islam, the sect that had become increasingly prominent in Jackson’s life, told him it cost $100,000 (£60,000) a month to rent the mansion, but she believes similar properties were on the market for no more than $25,000 a month. The sect has supplied bodyguards to the singer and allegedly intimidated auction houses that were selling Jackson memorabilia. “Michael had no idea about money,” Rwaramba said. “He got a proposal to make an appearance in Japan for $1m . . . By the time everyone took their share, he ended up with $200,000.” At one stage Jackson and his entourage flew economy class to Germany. One of the worst periods was after Jackson was acquitted following a five-month trial in 2005 on charges of sexually abusing a boy during sleepovers at his Neverland ranch. Jackson, Rwaramba and the children went to Bahrain as guests of Sheikh Abdullah, a son of the king, who hoped to make a CD with the singer. People there described yesterday how they sometimes saw Jackson walking through a mall, his frail body draped in a woman’s abaya, or robe, which covered part of the face. He drew a crowd since he did not walk like a woman. When the singer and the sheikh fell out, Jackson and his family moved to Ireland to stay with friends of Rwaramba and then in a small house in New Jersey where Jackson slept in a downstairs room while she and the children shared a bedroom. When Jackson did have money, he hid it in black rubbish sacks and under the carpets at the Los Angeles house. Rwaramba says Katherine Jackson rang her in London at 7am on Friday to ask where the money was, possibly to stop it being stolen. Sources close to the Jacksons yesterday told the TMZ entertainment website, which broke the news of his death, that the children would stay with their grandmother and grandfather Joe at the family home in Encino, California. They said: “We’re told the family is 100% behind this - feeling that Katherine and Joe Jackson are the only people who can help the children understand who their father was, help them grieve, and teach them to deal with life in the spotlight.” Source : Times Online
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