investigators have tracked hundreds of millions of dollars in drug proceeds being sent to Yemen, Syria, Lebanon and Jordan.Read more here.
Law enforcement officers arrested nine suspected members of an international drug ring that marketed a synthetic form of marijuana called Spice, a drug that has been linked to serious illnesses, hallucinations and even death.
"Spice is poison and pain deceptively packaged as pleasure," said 18th Judicial District Attorney George Brauchler. It is sold in gas stations and corner shops under product names like "Sexy Monkey" and "Crazy Clown." Some packages are labeled "Not for Human Consumption."
In a November 2013 report on transnational organized crime, DEA Administrator Michele Leonhart said "drug trafficking organizations and terror networks are joined at the hip in many parts of the world.Read more here.
"DEA must relentlessly purse these dangerous individuals and criminal groups that attempt to use drug trafficking profits to fuel and fund terror networks, such as Hezbollah," Leonhart said.
Payne said Wednesday's crackdown was focused strictly on U.S. targets and involved 33 DEA cases, seven investigations led by Immigration and Customs Enforcement special agents and several others led by Customs and Border Protection that focused on express consignment shipments.
Time also has a piece about
Almost 120 people in a five-day period in Texas overdosed on a synthetic drug that mimics the effects of marijuana. Police believe the drug on which the victims overdosed, known as K2, came from the same Dallas supplier, News 8 reports. Some of the overdose victims had to be sedated before being treated.Read more here.
Dr. James d’Etienne of Dallas’ Baylor Medical Center said that “several of [the patients] came in with similar symptoms of psychosis, altered mental status, abnormal behavior.”
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