Canadian woman Melina Roberge—known on the internet as “Cocaine Babe”—was sentenced to eight years in prison on Wednesday after entering a guilty plea for attempting to smuggle millions of dollars worth of cocaine into Australia in 2016.
One of the few things left to look forward to is the annual release of data that shows which European city is doing most of its cocaine supply, by scientists who determine such by analyzing the cocaine in various sewers. Usually it’s London, but this year, in an interesting twist, Antwerp is doing all the blow.
Rumors of “cheap speed” prescriptions and speculation about cocaine use notwithstanding, celebrity real estate developer and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump enjoys a decades-old reputation as a teetotaler. That did not, however, stop him from employing a convicted cocaine trafficker in the 1980s.
In an appearance Tuesday on Fox and Friends, Donald Trump denied that he had the sniffles at the first presidential debate, speculating instead that he had been given a bad microphone. “There was no sniffles,” he said. In fact, there were so many sniffles that some wondered whether he was on cocaine.
So far in this debate, Donald Trump has sniffled approximately 12,000 times, sipped a lot of water, and argued loudly with the lady next to him. On Twitter, Howard Dean says what we’re all thinking—cocaine?
A man traveling from Thailand to Australia was able to make it through a 9-hour flight with 110 packets of cocaine hidden in his body, but—upon his arrival at the Sydney Airport—informed the police what he had done.
Just because you’re smuggling $30 million dollars’ worth of cocaine in your suitcase doesn’t mean you can’t live it the fuck up before you get caught.
On Saturday, July 2, New Zealand authorities confiscated 35 bricks of high-grade cocaine, worth roughly $11 million, from two men at Auckland International Airport. As it happens, they discovered this illicit cache in an 881- pound, diamante-encrusted horse head.
Two television reporters from Tucson, Arizona have been charged with child abuse after their four-month-old infant tested positive for cocaine.
A former Arizona police officer has been taken into custody after killing his wife and a man that tried to save her outside of the city of Phoenix.
It was difficult to get Tom Sandoval on the phone for an interview.
On Friday, a flight attendant apparently acting as a drug mule flipped out at LAX when she was subject to a random TSA screening, to which airline workers don’t normally submit. Carrying almost 70 pounds of cocaine in her bags, she ditched them and made a run for it, escaping down an escalator and out the terminal…
A flight attendant was in such a hurry to leave LAX Friday night that she left her carry-on bag—and the 60 pounds of cocaine inside it—behind. And if forgetting your luggage weren’t a bad enough way to start the weekend, our girl also left her Gucci shoes.
HBO’s Vinyl—the romanticization of my literal nightmare of rock dudes snorting coke and yammering about the industry while you, a woman, sit there silently stewing—didn’t have a great debut on the Nielsen charts!
Ireland plans to decriminalize small amounts of heroin, cocaine and marijuana. If you’re keeping score, abortion remains illegal there.
Last summer, videos of celebrities taking part in the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge were all over the internet. It was fun to watch people of varying levels of fame dump ice on their heads for charity, and the ALS Association reportedly raised $100 million in just 30 days because of it.
Turning 18 can be a big moment in a teenager’s life, so it’s understandable if their parent wants to do something extra special to celebrate the milestone occasion. While some teens dream of receiving keys to a brand new car or a trip to Europe, Nicola Austen had something different in mind when it came to her…
Yeah, that didn’t really work out.
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