Carrie Fisher’s Autopsy Reveals Cocktail of Drugs, Including Cocaine, Opiates and Ecstasy
Posted: June 19, 2017 Filed under: Entertainment, Health and Social Issues, Mediasphere, U.S. News | Tags: American Journal of Cardiology, Aneurysm, Ankylosing spondylitis, atherosclerotic heart disease, Barnsley Hospital, Carrie Fisher, Cocaine, CT scan, drugs, Hollywood, MDMA, opiates Leave a comment
Carrie Fisher had a drug cocktail in her system when she died in late December after going into cardiac arrest aboard an LAX-bound flight.
A Los Angeles County coroner’s report released on Monday revealed a mixture of drugs that were in actress Carrie Fisher’s system when she went into cardiac arrest on an L.A.-bound flight and later died.
Fisher’s toxicology review found evidence of cocaine, methadone, MDMA (better known as ecstasy), alcohol and opiates when she was rushed to Ronald Reagan UCLA Hospital on Dec. 23, a toxicology report showed.
The test results “suggests there was an exposure to heroin, but that the dose and time of exposure cannot be pinpointed.” Therefore we cannot establish the significance of heroin regarding the cause of death in this case.”
The tests revealed that the cocaine would have been consumed within the previous 72 hours, according to the autopsy.
Four days later on Dec. 27, Fisher went into cardiac arrest. After 90 minutes of attempting to revive her, officials declared the “Star Wars” actress dead just before 9 a.m.
Her cause of death was listed as sleep apnea with other factors.
In addition to the listed cause of death, the coroner’s statement cited “other conditions: atherosclerotic heart disease, drug use.”
It also said: “How Injury Occurred: Multiple drug intake, significance not ascertained.”
At family’s request, medical examiners did not dissect the corpse. Instead, they conducted CT scans of the body. Read the rest of this entry »
Inconvenient: Obama Life Sentence Commuted Drug Dealer Arrested With a Kilo of Cocaine
Posted: February 6, 2017 Filed under: Crime & Corruption, White House | Tags: American Justice, Barack Obama, Cocaine, Commute, Gulf Cartel, Joe McKnight, Life imprisonment, Mandatory sentencing, murder, Robert Gill, San Antonio, San Antonio Express-News Leave a comment
A man whose life sentence for drug distribution conspiracy was recently commuted by former President Barack Obama is back in jail after allegedly crashing his vehicle while fleeing from a drug deal.
“Because you have demonstrated the potential to turn your life around. … Now it is up to you to make the most of this opportunity.”
— Former president Barack Obama when commuting Robert Gill
Robert Martinez Gill, 68, had his life sentence commuted by President Obama in 2015 together with 
other 1,700 federal inmates as a broader strategy to give relief to nonviolent offenders serving prison for drug offenses, the San Antonio Express-News reports.
He’d served prison time for cocaine and heroin distribution conspiracy since 1992. He also earned a legal education inside prison libraries and petitioned the president for a second chance after his court appeals were unsuccessful.
In a signed notification approving the commutation application in 2015, then-President Obama wrote that Gill deserves it “because you have demonstrated the potential to turn your life around. … Now it is up to you to make the most of this opportunity.”
On Thursday, however, he was arrested in San Antonio by the police after allegedly crashing his vehicle into another motorist while fleeing from a drug deal. Read the rest of this entry »
[VIDEO] Howard Dean Doubles Down On Bizarre Trump Cocaine Accusation, Morning Joe Roasts Dean, Calls for Apology
Posted: September 28, 2016 Filed under: Entertainment, Mediasphere, Politics | Tags: Cocaine, Democratic Party, Donald Trump, Howard Dean, Morning Joe 1 Comment
Finally, if Trump had used cocaine right before the debate… wouldn’t he have been a little more energetic?https://t.co/geNi0mNGLE
— jimgeraghty (@jimgeraghty) September 28, 2016
Rogue Police Home Invasion: Marijuana Grower Shot SWAT Cops Who Kicked Down His Door, Jury Says They Don’t Blame Him
Posted: March 30, 2015 Filed under: Crime & Corruption, Law & Justice, U.S. News | Tags: Arrest warrant, Burleson County, Cannabis, Cocaine, Crack cocaine, Drug paraphernalia, Police, Search warrant, Sheriff, Special Investigations Unit, SWAT 1 Comment
(CCN) Recently, there has been some talk about places that allow you to shoot officers if they are in the wrong when they enter your home. Our friends at The Free Thought Project write the following about the steps that one state has taken in this direction:
Indiana has taken action to “recognize the unique character of a citizen’s home and to ensure that a citizen feels secure in his or her own home against unlawful intrusion by another individual or a public servant.”
While Indiana may appear to be the only state to so publicly announce legislation that permits self-defense against rogue police home invasions, there are other courts which have ruled in favor of recognizing this right.
One of the most striking examples is that of a Texas man who says he was the victim of a home invasion in the middle of the night. But that home invasion was carried out by SWAT officers.
In the pre-dawn raid, that occurred on December 19th, 2013, Henry Goedrich Magee, like many residents of Burleson County, Texas, had a gun in the house. When Magee heard his door being broken down, he reached for his gun.
The police wanted to throw the proverbial book at him, but after hearing the evidence, a grand jury determined that Magee should not be charged in the shooting death of one of those officers.
The ruling was clear that Magee would not be charged with capital murder for the death of Burleson County Sgt. Adam Sowders, who was part of a SWAT team which attempted to raid Magee’s rural home, in the execution of a search warrant.
The officers did in fact have a warrant, but a key factor in the grand jury’s decision was that they did not knock before entering.
The warrant says that they were primarily looking for marijuana primarily, and also for illegal guns. Read the rest of this entry »
Freelancing! VA Employees Busted For Running Coke Ring out of Bronx VA Medical Center
Posted: September 8, 2014 Filed under: Breaking News, Crime & Corruption, Health and Social Issues, U.S. News | Tags: Bronx, Casiano, Cocaine, Erik Casiano, New York City, Puerto Rico, Robert Tucker, Twitter, United States Department of Justice, United States Postal Service, Veterans Health Administration Leave a comment
Tristyn Bloom reports: Two Veterans Affairs Medical Center employees were arrested last week for using VA facilities to smuggle and deal cocaine, the Department of Justice recently announced.
Robert Tucker and Erik Casiano had been using the U.S. Postal Service and the mailroom of a VA Medical Center in the Bronx to receive and distribute cocaine since “at least November 2013,” according to the press release.
Tucker has worked for the VA since 1997, and in 2012 was promoted to supervisor of the Logistics Warehouse and Mail Center. Casiano, a pipefitter in the plumbing department, had worked for the center since 2012.
All told, the two attempted to distribute over 5 kilograms of cocaine. If found guilty, they each face a minimum of 10 years in prison, and could be jailed for life.
[PDF – U.S. v. Robert Tucker & Erik Casiano Complaint]
The investigation began in December 2013 when a package addressed to the center caught the attention of postal inspectors in Puerto Rico, who discovered 2 kilograms of cocaine inside. Undercover investigators watched the pair receive and exchange such packages four times before finally busting them after Tucker was caught on video surveillance handing one over to Casiano in exchange for $500. Casiano was arrested while attempting to drive away with the package. One kilogram of cocaine was seized from his car. Read the rest of this entry »
Delicioso y Estimulante Relleno! Cocaine-Stuffed Tamales Seized at Houston Airport
Posted: August 24, 2014 Filed under: Crime & Corruption, U.S. News | Tags: Cocaine, Drug Smuggling, El Salvador, George Bush Intercontinental Airport, Harbourmaster, Houston, New York, Tamale, U.S. Customs and Border Protection 1 CommentCan’t eat just one. RT @ABC Cocaine-stuffed tamales seized at Houston airport: http://t.co/LPSVJQW2D2 pic.twitter.com/c66UwRsqNA
— Sean Davis (@seanmdav) August 24, 2014
Crackhead Apocalypse: Republican Freshman Congressman Picked up for Cocaine Possession
Posted: November 19, 2013 Filed under: Breaking News, Crime & Corruption, Politics | Tags: Cocaine, Florida, Radel, Southwest Florida, Superior Court of the District of Columbia, Trey Radel, Tuesday, Wednesday 2 Comments
M.K. Ham writes: It’s a misdemeanor charge, which seems like less than I’d imagine for cocaine:
Rep. Trey Radel, a Florida Republican elected in 2012, will be in court Wednesday on charges that he possessed cocaine.
Radel, 37, was charged with misdemeanor possession of cocaine in D.C. Superior Court on Tuesday.
He faces a maximum of 180 days in jail, as well as a fine of up to $1,000. Several sources with direct knowledge say it was the FBI and Drug Enforcement Administration who were involved in the charges.
I’m interested to see how liberals react to this story. They’re ostensibly anti-drug war and oh-so-nonchalant about drug use, but how to resist knocking a Republican? The go-to is usually to cry hypocrisy, but Radel is a co-sponsor of a bill to give judges discretion on mandatory minimums.
Herpes Virus Found on Library Copies of ‘Fifty Shades of Grey’
Posted: November 15, 2013 Filed under: Health and Social Issues, Reading Room | Tags: Antwerp, Book, Cocaine, Fifty Shades of Grey, Herpes simplex, Life imitating art, List of universities in Belgium, Professor Leave a comment
JON DAVID KAHN reports: Two Belgian university professors recently decided to submit the 10 most borrowed books at the Antwerp library to bacteriology and toxicology tests.
Traces of cocaine were found on all 10 books. The traces were small enough that readers would not feel the effects, but significant enough that they could test positive for cocaine.
But the real case of life imitating art was revealed when the scientists discovered traces of the herpes virus in the pages of the erotic tale Fifty Shades of Grey. Read the rest of this entry »
Hong Kong Customs Nets Record Cocaine Haul, Seizing 60 Kilograms of the Drug
Posted: August 15, 2013 Filed under: China | Tags: Asia, Beijing, Brazil, China, Cocaine, Hong Kong, Hongkong, Illegal drug trade, Li & Fung, Mainland China, São Paulo, Smuggling, South America 1 CommentHong Kong customs seized a record haul of cocaine at its international airport this week, foiling two passengers who tried to smuggle 58 million Hong Kong dollars (US$7.5 million) worth of the drug in their luggage.
One 35-year-old man arrived Tuesday from São Paulo, Brazil, after transiting in Beijing with 48 kilograms (105 pounds) of cocaine wrapped in quilts inside his suitcases, the largest amount ever seized from an individual passenger in the city’s history. A 22-year-old female traveler on the same flight was also discovered to be carrying 12 kilograms of cocaine inside false compartments of four backpacks stowed in her suitcase. They two were arrested and charged with drug trafficking.
Not including Tuesday’s cases, customs officers have seized more than HK$50 million worth of cocaine at the airport this year, found sewn into jacket linings or stuffed into shopping bags and laptop cases. On Monday, airport customs officers found about HK$1.92 million worth of the drug inside layers of silicone rubber, which were in turn tucked inside handbags, two cushions and a wall map shipped by air mail from Uruguay.
