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• Man arrested for selling cocaine from Los Angeles home operating as day care center

  By: dtrcblog-admin On: 07-05-2017 Category: addiction, cocaine, Drug trafficking Comment: 0

  

  The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) has arrested a 48-year-old man on charge of trafficking cocaine out of his home in Highland Park area of Los Angeles. Authorities said that Felipe Talamante was also running an illegal day care from the same place. Talamante was recently caught red-handed trying to sell 20 kilograms of cocaine “straight […]

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• 2 sentenced to prison in $35 million cocaine bust case in LA County

  By: dtrcblog-admin On: 03-31-2017 Category: addiction, cocaine, Narcotic trafficking Comment: 0

  

  Two men from Santa Fe Springs in Los Angeles County, who have been behind bars since June 2015 for their involvement in a 562-pound cocaine bust linked to the infamous Sinaloa drug cartel in Mexico, were sentenced to more than two decades of imprisonment in March 2017.

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• Woman arrested with crystal meth worth $160K at Los Angeles International Airport

  By: dtrcblog-admin On: 08-11-2016 Category: cocaine Comment: 0

  

  A 27-year-old woman from San Ysidro, CA was arrested by the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) recently for possessing 11.24 pounds of crystal methamphetamine worth nearly $160,000. The officers seized the drug hidden under the lining of Ysidro’s suitcase. The accused was arrested on July 18, 2016 […]

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• Addicts must take lesson from NBA star Lamar Odom’s recovery story

  By: dtrcblog-admin On: 04-05-2016 Category: cocaine Comment: 0

  

  Two-time NBA champion and reality TV star Lamar Odom, who was hospitalized in October 2015 after taking cocaine and a heavy dose of a Viagra-like medication at a Nevada brothel, has been making a miraculous recovery and is gradually treading the path to sobriety. Odom still has issues with regaining short-term memory and basic motor […]

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• Drugs and celebrities: Tragedies show addiction no solution to stress

  By: dtrcblog-admin On: 02-11-2016 Category: cocaine, drug overdose, substance abuse Comment: 0

  

  Stories of drug overdose by celebrities often baffle us on the probable factors that might be driving them to that level despite their might – fame, influence and money – to get whatever they want. But the fact is that, like common man, they too get trapped in the vicious cycle of addiction. The year […]

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