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DEA leads international operation against Dark Web operators

May 3, 2019

WASHINGTON – After a two-year investigation into one of the world’s largest dark web marketplaces, the DEA and other law enforcement partners today announced the arrests of three German nationals who operated t...

Music icon Whitney Houston dead at 48

Conception Allen

February 12, 2012

No cause announced

100,000 hospitalizations a year caused by four drugs

Erin Farnsworth

November 27, 2011

Allergic reactions and accidental overdoses

Welcome to Dopeland review

Randy Steinberg

November 3, 2011

A good attempt

Occupy Boston: Crime, addiction, and community response inside the tent city

John Stephen Dwyer

October 23, 2011

Some protestors feel that handing someone over to the same police force that recently arrested 141 of them is an act of betrayal. (Blast Staff photo/John Stephen Dwyer) Depending on who is telling the story...

Former corrections officer sentenced on federal drug charges

John M. Guilfoil

September 28, 2011

A former corrections officer working in MCI-Norfolk was sentenced yesterday to 30 months in federal prison for trying to smuggle heroin into the prison for inmates. Ronald P. McGinn, 40, of Bridgewater, also...

Google will forfeit $500 million in Canadian pharmacy advertising scandal

John M. Guilfoil

August 24, 2011

One of the largest penalties in history

Maine man dies after reportedly using “bath salts” drug

John M. Guilfoil

August 11, 2011

A man died in Bangor, Maine last week after telling police he was high on the new hallucinogenic designer drug known as "bath salts." Ralph Willis, according to the Associated Press, had been running around ...

Amy Winehouse: Death by alcohol withdrawal?

Ashley D'Hooge

August 3, 2011

Her last live performance was in Belgrade, Serbia.

Report: Amy Winehouse found dead in London

John M. Guilfoil

July 23, 2011

Singer recently withdrew from European tour

Nine arrested in New Bedford in federal investigation

Brittney McNamara

July 22, 2011

Nine New Bedford men were arrested today on federal and state gun and drug charges according to the United States District Attorney, Carmen M. Ortiz. The arrests sprang from a joint federal and state invest...

Coheed and Cambria bassist robs Walgreens of oxycodone before Comcast Center concert

Brittney McNamara

July 11, 2011

Band immediately replaces Michael Todd

Springfield police find massive marijuana operation while responding to home invasion call

Brittney McNamara

June 29, 2011

SPRINGFIELD -- A 14-year-old's call to police about a home invasion went vastly awry for her father when he was arrested for various drug offenses on Tuesday. The young girl called police to report a break ...

Authorities round up 18 drug dealers in Boston

Brittney McNamara

June 23, 2011

Police arrested and indicted eighteen alleged drug dealers in a long-term investigation into cocaine and heroin distribution called "Operation Tanglewood," according to Daniel F. Conley, Suffolk County district...

Three Braintree men arrested after extensive drug investigation

Brittney McNamara

June 14, 2011

After an extensive investigation, police arrested three Braintree men for illegal drug sales. Paul A. Gravelle, 38, and Andrew G. Alexopoulos, 25, both of Braintree, were named the main components in the de...

Alleged drug dealer’s mom inadvertently gives Boston Police more evidence

Shannon O'Neill

May 13, 2011

Police find heroin, crack cocaine inside jeans pocket

“Oxy-Morons” — One man’s journey from prison to the silver screen

Molly J. Coombs

March 28, 2011

The other gritty Charlestown-based movie

Alleged Gloucester boyfriend/girlfriend drug dealers arrested after man dies of overdose

John M. Guilfoil

March 5, 2011

A boyfriend and girlfriend were arrested in Gloucester on charges they provided a fatal bag of heroin that was shared by another boyfriend and girlfriend, one of whom died Feb. 17 of overdose, according to the ...

Minor accident ends in cab driver’s death on Route 1 in Lynnfield

John M. Guilfoil

March 5, 2011

A fender bender accident proved deadly for a North Shore cab driver. Shortly before 8 p.m. Friday, a 2003 Ford Crown Victoria taxi cab struck a 2010 Chevrolet Cobalt from behind on Rt. 1 in Lynnfield. The tw...

Bruno Mars makes deal on drug charge

Eiko Watanabe

January 29, 2011

Singer Bruno Mars, 25, arrested in a casino restroom last September, allegedly with 2.6 grams of cocaine in the left front pocket of his jeans. However, the prosecutor's office confirmed Friday that Mars, wh...

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