Some celebrities don’t watch the company they keep and get their drug problems put on bast by the media. Others put themselves on blast. Here are 9 celebrities who were put on blast for their drug use. Continue reading →
We’re glad he at least got something out the deal. Student Left In Cell For Five Days Awarded $4 Million According Mail Online The college student forgotten in a holding cell for five days without food or water, took a $4.1 million settlement from the Justice Department his lawyer announced Tuesday. 24-year-old University of California, San Diego student Daniel Chong was arrested on April 21, 2012 as part of a major drug bust. He was taken to county jail and subsequently forgotten in a cell for five days – starving and hallucinating. “It was an accident,” Mr Chong said in a news conference on Tuesday attended by KPBS, “a really bad, horrible accident.” Mr Chong’s attorney Eugene Iredale said that the Justice Department is still trying to figure out how Mr Chong slipped from their notice, but the inspector general still has no answers. The DEA did not have a system in place at the time on how to treat detainees, but has since installed camera in each of the cells and holds daily inspections. “What happened to Daniel should never happen to any human being on the face of the planet,’ Mr Ireland said in the press conference. ‘The government has recognized the profound suffering that Daniel underwent,’ he said. Mr Iredale said that no one has been disciplined for the drug bust, and that no criminal charges will be filed. The student originally planned to sue for $20million. Mr Chong said he is in good health back UC San Diego studying engineering. The engineering student was swept up as one of nine suspects in an April 21 drug raid that netted 18,000 ecstasy pills, other drugs and weapons. Seven suspects were taken to county jail, and another was released, but Mr Chong was somehow left behind, said Amy Roderick, a spokeswoman for the Drug Enforcement Administration. ‘Each suspect was interviewed in separate interview rooms, and frequently moved around between rooms and cells,’ Ms Roderick said. ‘The individual in question was accidentally left in one of the cells.’ Mr Chong said federal Drug Enforcement Administration agents told him he would be let go. One agent even promised to drive him home from the DEA field office in Kearny Mesa, he said. Instead, he was returned to a holding cell to await release. Mr Chong said he could hear the muffled voices of agents outside his five-by-10-foot windowless cell and the door of the next cell being opened and closed. It took him nearly five days at Sharp hospital to recover, he said. NBC News How do you forget about someone in a cell for five days? Can you say dropped the ball?
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You’ve got to be kidding. Grandmother and President of the Co-Op Board–72-year-old Doris Smith confessed to helping her daughter and son-in-law run their $1 million-a-year drug ring! She used her co-op as a stash house for PCP, rocks, and heroin. The family matriarch—known among her drug pals as “Mama Dot”—was twice caught on wiretaps warning the son-in-law, gang kingpin Lamont (Big Bro) Moultrie, 42, that cops were inside the building at 101 W. 115th St. “I’ve listened to the wiretaps,” Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Edward McLaughlin told Smith’s attorney. “Your client was quite involved. She knew what was going on, and tried to deflect the police.” The short, heavyset grandmother of seven — and great-grandmother of one — pushed up her eyeglasses to wipe away tears while admitting her pivotal role in the lucrative dope-peddling business. Smith, as co-op board president, held a key to the basement and a vacant third-floor apartment next door to where she lived with her daughter Nicole McNair Moultrie and son-in-law Lamont. The basement of the six-story building was used to store hundreds of heroin-filled packets and dozens of plastic bags loaded with dope. The heroin was marketed under the brand name “24,” and a stamp with that number was kept downstairs. The upstairs apartment served as the heart of the PCP trade, with gang underlings dipping spearmint leaves into 5-gallon cans of the liquid drug. The angel dust-laced leaves were then sold for $10 apiece by dealers at three open-air Harlem drug markets — earning the gang its nickname, the “Kings of Dust.” Lamont Moultrie and his kid brother Bernard (Little Bro) Moultrie, 39, were charged as the heads of the drug gang and are awaiting trial under the state’s “Drug Kingpin” statute. Such a shame…Doris is a retired nurse who walks with the aid of a cane. Her 11-year-old grandson, and son of daughter Nicole, also lived in the apartment. Source Images via nydailynews
Have you ever wanted to try crystal meth? Here’s 10 reasons not to. A Gallery Of Pictures Of Crystal Meth Addicts For some inexplicable reason, crystal meth has become the drug of choice amongst a particular circle of folks in America. Aside from the fact that the drug does terrible things to your body (internally AND externally), just the fact that you can die even attempting to MAKE it is enough reason to keep us the hell away. However… Perhaps you have seen people who look like THIS walking around your town and wondered (quietly or aloud) “What the F**K happened to HER?!?” Well, these folks didn’t always look this run-down and raggedy… Hit the flip to see how the most normal looking (we use the term “normal” very loosely) people can end up looking like an extra on The Walking Dead . Images via Fox 5 San Diego
Trayvon Martin , the 17-year-old who was shot and killed by a neighborhood watchman George Zimmnerman had the drug THC in his system the night of this death , according to new reports: The revelation came as prosecutors in the case prepared to release to the public hundreds of pages of new evidence along with videos and crime scene photos. Martin’s death sparked public outrage after police released Martin’s shooter, George Zimmerman, without any criminal charges for the killing. Zimmerman, 28, is a multi-racial Hispanic man who shot the black high school junior at close range on Feb. 26, and claimed self-defense, though Martin was unarmed. Zimmerman was later charged with second-degree murder, and the killing provoked widespread debate about racial profiling The autopsy report shows traces of the drug THC, which is found in “kush”, in Martin’s blood and urine. The autopsy also shows that Zimmerman shot Martin from a distance of between 1 inch and 18 inches away, bolstering Zimmerman’s claim that he shot Martin during a struggle that landed Zimmerman on his back, Martin straddling him and banging Zimmerman’s head on the ground. Martin’s autopsy report also revealed that there was a quarter-inch by half-inch abrasion on the left fourth finger of Martin, another indication of a possible struggle. The teen, who lived in Miami, was in Sanford while serving a suspension for a bag of maryjane being discovered in his possession. Slowly but surely the facts are starting to come out about this tragic night. Not only did the official autopsy find that drugs were found in Trayvon’s system, it’s also come to light that Zimmerman’s fatal bullet was fired from within a very close distance, which suggests that his claims of the night may be withstanding. With all these damning facts coming to surface today, will this change public opinion of how this case is viewed? Source
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