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- Don't cry for me, Venezuela. Demers, Jim // Alberta Report / Newsmagazine;7/5/93, Vol. 20 Issue 29, p22
Lists the arrests made as a result of an Edmonton RCMP investigation into cocaine trafficking which began in May 1990 with the arrests of David Dalton and Karen Hall at Caracas, Venezuela, airport. Arrests since then; Disposition of the cases; 1987 arrest of Troy Greschuk tipped police to the...
- The fortress--under siege and up for sale. Demers, Jim // Alberta Report / Newsmagazine;9/13/93, Vol. 20 Issue 39, p30
Describes the heavily fortified drug house widely known in Edmonton as the `Fortress,' which has resisted the efforts of police to shut it down for ten years. Series of SWAT-like night raids on the Fortress; Why the raids are unsuccessful; Wood frame house now lined with tons of steel and...
- Crack finds a home in Alberta. Teel, Gina; Demers, Jim // Alberta Report / Newsmagazine;9/13/93, Vol. 20 Issue 39, p30
Reveals that the Calgary police tactical unit, led by Inspector Bill Sherlock, raided a reinforced drug house and confiscated 23 grams of crack, $1,800 in cash, two swords and a dummy hand grenade. Three people were charged, 11 others released. Raid by Edmonton city police; Increases in armed...
- Drug posses rob Jamaica of tourism dollars. // Black Enterprise;Aug88, Vol. 19 Issue 1, p22
The drug problem in Jamaica, complete with its violent drug peddling gangs, has resulted in fear among tourists, and a decline in tourism income for the nation.
- Drugs: The world picture. Sullivan, M.E. // Current Health 2;Feb1990, Vol. 16 Issue 6, p4
Examines the global drug problem and focuses on the United States' efforts to combat the problem. Consumers and suppliers; Drug facts. INSET: The great crack attack (what crack has done since its debut in....
- Customs cracks down on commercial cargo. Ruiz-Calderon, Maricelle // Caribbean Business;8/6/98, Vol. 26 Issue 31, p27
Reports in 1998, United States Customs Services officials will visit Latin America to supervise business enterprises on routines to stop drug smuggling in commercial cargo en route to Puerto Rico. Comments from US Customs Special Agent in Charge Frank Figueroa; Practices of narcotics...
- A world drug capital struggles to get a life. LaFranchi, Howard // Christian Science Monitor;3/9/95, Vol. 87 Issue 71, p6
Features the city Cali in Colombia and the effect of drug on it. Information on a Cali resident, Adelinda Wailis who is unemployed and has lost a friend and the father of her son; Factors leading to the increasing drug abuse and violence in Cali; Effort of the Cali authorities to create human...
- Wide-open South Africa faces a new enemy - drug traffic. Matloff, Judith // Christian Science Monitor;7/18/95, Vol. 87 Issue 162, p1
Focuses on South Africa which has become a center for drug smuggling. Suitable situation in South Africa for drug smuggling; Statistics on the drugs confiscated in South Africa; Attempts by the police to stop drug smuggling through South Africa.
- Federal officials seized a record 12 tons of cocaine. Hanson, Cynthia; McLaughlin, Abraham // Christian Science Monitor;8/21/95, Vol. 87 Issue 186, p2
Informs about the seizure of a record amount of cocaine hidden in the fuel tanks of a fishing boat, by the US Federal officials.
- An opposing view: UN report is likely to praise Colombia. Windhausen, Rodolfo // Christian Science Monitor;2/25/97, Vol. 89 Issue 62, p7
Reports that experts at the United Nations are about to praise Colombia for its efforts in combating the illegal drug trade. When the UN's report `International Narcotics Control Board' will be released; Name of Colombia's ambassador to the United States; Allegations against Colombia's President...
