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Videosby Staff WriterMay 23, 2017

NC Officers Discover Massive Opium Poppy Growing Operation

Deputies estimate that the plants found near Claremont are worth a half-billion dollars. They said some of the plants had been cut to allow collection of the opium resin.

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Newsby Staff WriterMay 23, 2017

Video: NC Officers Discover Massive Opium Poppy Growing Operation

Deputies estimate that the plants found near Claremont are worth a half-billion dollars. They said some of the plants had been cut to allow collection of the opium resin.

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Newsby Staff WriterMay 15, 2017

Video: Ohio Officer Accidentally Overdoses on Fentanyl

An East Liverpool, OH, Police officer, while responding to a drug-involved call Friday night, accidentally touched fentanyl and overdosed.

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Newsby Staff WriterMay 3, 2017

Baltimore Homicide Detectives to Begin Investigating Drug Overdoses

For the first time, Baltimore police have begun investigating overdoses in an effort to trace drugs back to dealers, joining a wave of Maryland law enforcement agencies showing up at 911 calls previously left to medics.

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Newsby Staff WriterApril 18, 2017

CO Marijuana DUIs Drop 33%, But Officials Still Concerned

The number of citations for driving while under the influence of marijuana in Colorado dropped by 33.2% in the first quarter of 2017 compared with the same period last year, but the number of people using marijuana and then driving continues to be a concern for Colorado officials

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Newsby Staff WriterApril 17, 2017

Man Charged with Following, Firing on Ohio Narcotics Investigator

A coordinated investigation Thursday by three police agencies and the U.S. Marshals Service led to the arrest of a man accused of following and firing shots at a Stark County deputy taking part in a surveillance operation.

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Newsby Staff WriterApril 17, 2017

FL Sheriff Makes Good on Viral Video Threat to Local Dealers

Lake County, FL, Sheriff Peyton Grinnell is keeping his promise to drug dealers: He’s coming for them.

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Newsby Staff WriterApril 7, 2017

New Mexico to Require All Officers to Carry Naloxone

New Mexico on Thursday became the first U.S. state to require all local and state law enforcement agencies to provide officers with antidote kits as the state works to curb deaths from opioid and heroin overdoses.

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Newsby Staff WriterMarch 24, 2017

Law Enforcement Coping with Elephant Tranquilizer ODs

From southern Ohio down to Alabama and increasingly up the Eastern Seaboard, drug users are dying by the scores in a strange new way: by overdosing on elephant tranquilizer.

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Newsby Staff WriterMarch 20, 2017

NC Agency's Newest K-9s Are Rescue Pit Bulls

North Carolina's Clay County Sheriff's Office announced, proudly, that two new narcotic detection dogs had joined the team. Their names are Phantom and Sarah — and both are pit bulls, rescued from shelters and trained to be key members of the force.

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