Three men have been arrested in a Washington County Narcotics Task Force probe in Forest Lake. Authorities also seized 62 pounds of khat, a leafy controlled substance narcotic, during a joint effort with the Forest Lake Police Department.
The drugs were seized and the arrests were made at 1:40 p.m. on Tuesday at the UPS Store, 2009 W. Broadway Ave. where officers from the two police agencies converged.
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A lockdown at Highline Medical Center was lifted after King County sheriff’s deputies checked a suspicious device in a minivan in the parking garage and found it to be a hoax.
King County sheriff’s spokesman John Urquhart said the man was taken to the King County Jail on Sunday night to be booked for possession of a hoax device.
During the lockdown, no traffic was allowed in or out of the hospital and several streets were closed.
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Morristown Police Department detectives arrested five people Friday evening on drugs and weapons charges following an investigation lasting several months, according to a press release from Morristown Chief of Police Roger Overholt.
A team of investigators from the Morristown Police Department, Hamblen County Sheriff’s Department, the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation and the High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area Program were are all involved with Read the rest of this entry »

THE National Under-21 team have always been 10 minutes away from notching good results, but coach K. Rajan feels he has the time to solve this problem before the Junior World Cup on June 7-21.
The Australian Youth Olympic Festival (AYOF), and the series of friendly matches before and after the tournament, showed the Juniors can play good hockey for 60 minutes, but cave in in the final 10 minutes of their matches.
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SAO PAULO (AP) — The wife of R&B singer Usher continues to recover in a Sao Paulo hospital after suffering a cardiac arrest shortly before undergoing plastic surgery, the spokeswoman of the doctor who was to perform the procedure said Thursday.
Ellen Dastry, spokeswoman for plastic surgeon Silvio Sterman, says Tameka Raymond checked into the Sao Rafael Hospital last Friday for a “simple liposuction.” Dastry said that Raymond suffered a cardiac Read the rest of this entry »

OREM — Police arrested two women suspected of pulling off six thefts at local fitness centers in November.
In a statement, Orem Police Lt. Doug Edwards said the women, ages 19 and 20, targeted the two Gold’s Gym locations in Orem as well as the Orem Recreation Center. They opened unlatched lockers in the women’s dressing rooms and took car keys and other valuables, police said. They then found the cars in the parking lot, unlocked them and Read the rest of this entry »

The taxi driver who was shot in the head Friday dies at University Hospital. Syracuse police have made an arrest in the shooting.
The cab driver who was shot in the head early Friday morning has died at University Hospital. Police say Timothy Gordon, 29, was driving three men home from a party in Liverpool when then group ditched on their fare. When Gordon asked for payment, police say 20 year old Denny Dejesus of Syracuse pulled out a gun and shot Read the rest of this entry »

by arresting three people yesterday for illegal sales of drugs and firearms.
They are Terrance Williams, Donte Hardin and Christopher Turner.
The police arrested two of them during an undercover purchase of about 3 grams of cocaine and a .25 caliber handgun.
They arrested Turner for possession of about 7 grams of crack cocaine.
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BEACON – A Beacon man is in the Dutchess County Jail in lieu of $100,000 bail after his arrest early Friday morning for possessing a loaded .38 cal. revolver, six bags of PCP and a quantity of cocaine.
Police arrested Scott Cummings, Jr., 18, after he bolted from the back seat of a car he was in when it was stopped for traffic violations at 1:45 a.m. He was caught a short time later with the aid of a police K-9.
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Police confiscate $2.5M in drugs, arrest two men
Two men were arrested and charged with drug possession after police recovered more than $2.5 million worth of drugs in the trap compartments of two vehicles on the Southwest Side Thursday night.
Manuel Garcia, 38, of the 9700 block of South Karlov Ave. in Oak Lawn, was charged with attempted possession of a controlled substance. Collazo Santiago, 35, of Azteca, Mexico was charged with possession Read the rest of this entry »