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Bath salts hit U.S. 'like a freight train'

Article by: PAM LOUWAGIE , Star Tribune
Updated: September 19, 2011 - 7:57 AM

Almost unknown in 2009, designer drugs and their psychotic effects alarm police, doctors.…

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Eight officers subdue suspect on `bath salts'.

Eight officers subdue suspect on `bath salts'

by KTAR.com (September 21st, 2011 @ 12:54pm)

MESA, Ariz. -- Eight officers were required to subdue a vehicle burglary suspect who was high on the synthetic drug "bath salts," according to Mesa Police.

The suspect locked himself in the vehicle and threw soda cans at officers before he was restrained after a pro-longed struggle,…

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“Bath Salts” Drug Raids Lead To Arrests

MIDDLESEX COUNTY — Six individuals have been arrested in a series of narcotics raids that also led to the seizure of more than $163,000 in synthetic marijuana and a chemical powder known as “bath salts,” which were being sold illegally at three smoke shops and a gas station convenience store in Middlesex County, Prosecutor Bruce J. Kaplan announced today.

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More teens and young adults are turning to "bath salts" and "incense", synthetic drugs, to get a high.

SACRAMENTO, CA - More teens and young adults are turning to "bath salts" and "incense", synthetic drugs, to get a high.

Incense, also called K2 or spice, mimics the effects of marijuana. Bath salts, dubbed "fake cocaine," are said to be as powerful as abusing methamphetamine or cocaine.

More young adults are turning to the drugs because they are easy to get.

"Yeah , I've smoked it. It's like an artificial marijuana," student Sara Novi said about spice "It's like…

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Maine senators co-sponsor federal bath salts bill

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The ingredients in Bath Salts and K2 spice revealed.

The ingredients in Bath Salts and K2 spice revealed

Posted: Sep 21, 2011 8:16 PM MST Updated: Sep 21, 2011 8:25 PM MST

By Tim Pulliam - email…

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As ‘bath salts’ drug ban nears, selloff feared by doctors

by Ken Alltucker on Sep. 20, 2011, under Arizona Republic News

Nearly two weeks after federal…

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Mentorship helping after prison.

Gwendolyn Blevins knew that when she was freed from her three-year stint in prison that the drugs would be there, but her daughter might not.

When Blevins left Arizona State Prison Complex-Perryville in early June, she went back to the dilapidated neighborhood near 24th Street and Broadway Road where she had been surrounded by drugs and addicts…

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Killings in Arizona jumped by about 16 percent last year.

PHOENIX - New…

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Corrections officer and his brother on suspicion of having sex with two girls aged 15 and 16.

Mesa police arrested a Department of Corrections officer and his brother on suspicion of having sex with two girls aged 15 and 16 on three separate occasions.

Officers arrested Corrections Officer Leon Scott, 34, at 9:20 p.m. Friday. His 24-year-old, unemployed brother, Anthony Kniffin, was taken into custody at 2:30 a.m. Saturday.

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Seizure of more than 4,000 pounds of marijuana and the apprehension of 40 undocumented immigrants.

A three-day anti-smuggling operation in the Vekol Valley resulted in the seizure of more than 4,000 pounds of marijuana and the apprehension of 40 undocumented immigrants, officials said Monday.

In a release, the Pinal Sheriff's Office said it worked with 10 law-enforcement agencies in an operation from Sept. 14-16, confiscating 4,369 pounds of…

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Woman is accused of playing a pornographic movie for three 14-year-old boys, then giving them shots of liquor.

LEXINGTON, S.C. -- A 47-year-old South Carolina woman is accused of playing a pornographic movie for three 14-year-old boys, then giving them shots of liquor.

The Lexington County Sheriff's office says Susan Russell Hammond of Lexington is charged with distributing obscene material to someone under 18. An arrest warrant says she played the movie…

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Student brought his mom's crack pipe and some drugs for show-and-tell

SWEET SPRINGS, Mo. -- Officials at a small northwest Missouri…

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The Throw Away Kids Network

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If you lost your job tomorrow?

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Alphabetical by State Federal Prisons

Alphabetical by State

Federal Prisons

Abbreviations: FCC - Federal Correctional Complex; FCI - Federal Correctional Institution; FMC - Fedeeral Medical Center; FPC - Federal Prison Camp; FTC - Federal Transfer Center; MCC - Metropolitan Correctional Center; MCFP - Medical Center for Federal Prisoners; MDC - Metropolitan Detention Center;…

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U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York Charges 65 Yonkers Gang Members, Associates, and Others with Narcotics and Firearms Offenses

U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York Charges 65 Yonkers Gang Members, Associates, and Others with Narcotics and Firearms Offenses Three Defendants Also Charged with Murder of Rival Gang Member U.S. Attorney’s Office August 09, 2011 Southern District of New York (212) 637-2600 — filed under: Breaking News, New York Top Stories, Press Release PREET BHARARA, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York; JANICE K. FEDARCYK, the Assistant Director in Charge of the… Continue

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