By CLAUDINE SAN NICOLAS, Staff Writer
WAILUKU — Brian Murphy, the director of a medical marijuana advocacy group based in Paia, said he was surprised by the “fabricated” criminal charges lodged against him and his friends.
“We’ve been as forthright as possible with police. . . . We never were hiding anything,” Murphy said following a bail hearing held Tuesday in 2nd Circuit Judge Joseph Cardoza’s courtroom.
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LOWELL, Nov 16, 2008 (The Sun – McClatchy-Tribune Information Services via COMTEX) –
— Police couldn’t say whether Guillermo Darlin still has a girlfriend.
He did on Friday. That’s when police say they saw Darlin, 26, of 270 Wilder St., and a passenger in the car he was driving, Tuan Nguyen, 35, of Lynn, conduct a drug deal in Dover Square about 7:30 p.m.
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Tuesday, December 30, 2008
Marion, KY woman in jail on additional charges after drugs were found while being booked
PADUCAH, KY – A Marion, Kentucky woman is in the McCracken County Jail on additional charges for having drugs in her possession as she was being booked into the jail Tuesday on traffic related charges. The McCracken County Sheriff’s Department says 33-year-old Michelle Smith had marijuana and paraphernalia hidden in her bra. Besides Read the rest of this entry »
BY ANDREW S. GARIB and ALISON GENDAR
Updated
Thursday, December 11th 2008, 8:44 AM
were busted Wednesday night for selling cocaine outside their pricey college dorm, police said.
Mickenzie Dippenworth, 21, of
, Md., and her roommate,
, 22, of Princeton Junction,
, allegedly teamed up with a local dealer,
, and together sold at least half an ounce of coke to undercover cops, police said.
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The 17-year-old son of Inverness Caledonian Thistle acting vice-chairman Graeme Bennett has appeared in court accused of dealing drugs.
Connor Bennett, of Milton of Leys, Inverness, appeared in private from custody on petition at Inverness Sheriff Court on Monday.
He made no plea or declaration when he appeared before Sheriff Alexander Pollock.
Mr Bennett was committed for further examination and bail was refused.
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The Wayne County Drug Task Force arrested two Richmond men Friday morning for allegedly dealing drugs following investigations.
Ezzard Webster, 32, 901 N. H St., was released on a $25,000 bond from the Wayne County jail hours after his 12 a.m. arrest in the 400 block of South 15th Street on a felony charge of dealing cocaine.
Michael Townsend, 31, 109 S. 13th St., remained in the jail on $25,000 bond for allegedly dealing a controlled substance, Read the rest of this entry »
BRISBANE, Australia (AP) — An American doctor charged with manslaughter in the deaths of three patients at a rural Australian hospital repeatedly botched operations and performed surgeries he was not capable of handling, a prosecutor said Monday.
In his opening statement in the pretrial hearing of Jayant Patel, prosecutor Ross Martin also said the doctor lied on his application to Bundaberg Base Hospital by neglecting to reveal he had been Read the rest of this entry »
“I think it’s fair to say that we have a major initiative investigation ongoing into this type of product,” Michael Levy, director of the division of new drugs and labeling compliance at the FDA, said in an interview. “We are buying these products, and we are testing them, and we are considering what our options are. There is definitely the possibility that there could be criminal charges.”
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The man was arrested without incident Wednesday after police negotiators persuaded him to surrender a gun and get out of his vehicle, which was parked outside the hospital’s ER.
The standoff forced hospital officials to close the rear of the hospital, move their emergency room operations to the front of the medical center, close the wellness and fitness center and cancel cardiac rehab classes, said Julie Rajotte, hospital spokeswoman.
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BRISBANE, Australia (AP) — An American doctor authorities say is linked to the deaths of at least 13 patients will appear in an Australian court this week on charges including manslaughter.
Dr. Jayant Patel is due to appear at a pre-trial hearing starting Monday on 16 charges — including three counts of manslaughter — relating to his job as director of surgery at a state-run hospital in northeastern Australia between 2003 and Read the rest of this entry »