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Lucinda F. Boyd's Blog – September 2011 Archive (16)

Beware

This is a message from my friend it goes as followed please take heed. Whilst driving on a rural end of the roadway on Thursday morning, I seen a car seat on the side of the road with a blanket draped over it. For whatever reason, I did not stop, even though I had all kinds of thoughts running through my head. But when I got to my destination, I called the Police and they were going to check it out. But, this is what the Police advised even before they went out there to check.... "There are… Continue

Added by Lucinda F. Boyd on September 22, 2011 at 9:09pm — No Comments

Synthetic drug sales booming on Web

In the secretive world of online drug dealing, an underground website named Silk Road entices shoppers with a wide range of illegal substances -- from Ecstasy and other synthetic drugs to heroin and high-grade marijuana.

The site, launched in February, is one of many new online outlets fueling a sudden and dangerous surge in synthetic drug abuse in Minnesota and nationwide, a Star Tribune investigation shows.

Of 86 drug sites…

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Added by Lucinda F. Boyd on September 21, 2011 at 10:50pm — No Comments

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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Added by Lucinda F. Boyd on September 21, 2011 at 10:33pm — No Comments

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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Added by Lucinda F. Boyd on September 21, 2011 at 10:24pm — No Comments

“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.

Members of…

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Added by Lucinda F. Boyd on September 21, 2011 at 10:21pm — No Comments

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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Added by Lucinda F. Boyd on September 21, 2011 at 10:18pm — No Comments

Maine senators co-sponsor federal bath salts bill

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Added by Lucinda F. Boyd on September 21, 2011 at 10:12pm — No Comments

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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Added by Lucinda F. Boyd on September 21, 2011 at 10:03pm — No Comments

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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Added by Lucinda F. Boyd on September 21, 2011 at 10:00pm — No Comments

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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Added by Lucinda F. Boyd on September 21, 2011 at 6:47am — No Comments

Killings in Arizona jumped by about 16 percent last year.

PHOENIX - New…

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Added by Lucinda F. Boyd on September 21, 2011 at 6:35am — No Comments

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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Added by Lucinda F. Boyd on September 21, 2011 at 6:33am — No Comments

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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Added by Lucinda F. Boyd on September 21, 2011 at 6:28am — No Comments

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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Added by Lucinda F. Boyd on September 21, 2011 at 6:24am — No Comments

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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Added by Lucinda F. Boyd on September 21, 2011 at 6:20am — No Comments

Mafia shoot at Priest

Shots fired at car of Mafia-fighting priest in Italy

By Cindy Wooden

Catholic News Service

VATICAN CITY – A southern Italian priest who is outspoken against the Mafia said gunshots fired at his car were likely meant to show him and the public that members of organized crime are still in charge of the area.

“I think it was just a serious warning,” Father Giuseppe Campisano, the pastor of St. Rocco Parish in Gioiosa Ionica, told Vatican Radio Aug.… Continue

Added by Lucinda F. Boyd on September 1, 2011 at 10:43am — No Comments