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February 25, 1999
Cop vs. Cop
Police officers don't complain about other officers -- or else.
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February 1, 2007
How to Hide Your Weed
An ex-cop from East Texas decides to switch sides
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June 15, 2006
Feel My Pain
A reporter goes after the online drug business and gets wasted
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September 21, 2000
Fun with Mick and Mary Jane
Speaking off the toque: Mickey Kapoor
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November 11, 2009
Edinburg Police Foiled In Attempt To Give Pot To State Prison Inmates, Apparently
They do things different down in the Valley. Like, if you're a police department, you donate some marijuana to inmates at the local state prison.Oh sure, Edinburg police are saying it was all a mistake, and no way did they intend to give 25 pounds of pot to inmates by cleverly concealing it in a ... More >>
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January 7, 2010
Weed Takes Root
Marijuana's steady creep toward legalization nationwide.
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January 14, 2010
Stoner Follies: Bryan Man's Mislaid Bong Leads To Two Felony Charges
Bryan's Gary Emil Maale, 20, faces two counts of felony drug possession after a cop patrolling Maale's apartment complex noticed a bong left in full view on his front porch. Evidently that piqued the curiosity of the cop, who reported that he decided to pay Maale a visit and noticed the smell of ... More >>
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March 11, 2010
Same Crap, Different County: Another Small Texas Town Overpunishes Another Piddly Drug Offender
Photo courtesy DEAA lot more crack than Melvin Johnson hadThink 35 years for a brick or so of pot is bad?Try this one on for size... In a case one local defense attorney has said showed "shades of Tulia," a Bay City man was sentenced to 60 years in prison for possessing 1.3 grams of crack.Melvin ... More >>
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April 16, 2010
Undercover Narc Nails Big Bust At Rural High School
West Columbia is about 45 miles southwest of here; don't feel too bad if you haven't heard of it. The Brazoria County town has about 4,300 residents, 16 of whom are facing drug charges after an undercover operation in the local high school.A school-district cop went undercover at the school in Ja ... More >>
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April 28, 2010
Jerome Ponette Wrecks Six Cars After Getting 86'd From Strip Club
Hungover and -- I did WHAT last night?Wow, helluva night at the strip club for 40-year-old Jerome Ponette. First, he got kicked out of Mirage Cabaret on West 34th Street for allegedly being drunk. Then he got behind the wheel of his Mercedes Benz and went all Mallachi brothers in the parking lot, ... More >>
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May 17, 2010
The James Baker Institute Embraces Drugs
Photo by Chris CurryDean BeckerWhen talking publicly about illegal drugs and butting heads with the U.S. government over its prohibitionist policies, respect is hard to come by.Over the years, though, local Houston radio host Dean Becker has earned high regard for getting top-tier guests and hav ... More >>
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May 27, 2010
Rice's Baker Institute on Drugs
KPFT recordings to be archived there.
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June 15, 2010
Richard Lee: Former Houstonian Leading California's Legal-Weed Battle
Houstonian showing Californians the wayCalifornians, those wacky folks, will be voting in November on a referendum to legalize recreational marijuana.Not medical marijuana, recreational marijuana.And they've got a Houstonian -- and his 80-year-old mother, who still lives here -- to thank.Richard ... More >>
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July 1, 2010
Brian Bledsoe And Esther Sustaita: Home-Grilled Meat Spells Doom For Bryan Pair's Alleged Motel Drug Spree
Photos courtesy BCSOBBQ at the hotelBrian Bledsoe and Esther Sustaita had made all the arrangements, and their alleged Tuesday evening drug bender was going well. They had rented a room at the Travel Lodge on Bryan's Texas Avenue, and the pharmaceutical cornucopia they had on hand would have (mil ... More >>
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August 3, 2010
Medical Marijuana Group Starts In Texas, We Think
Image from disinformationIt's possible an announcement was madeOur sister blog, Toke of the Town -- the number one site for all weed-related news on the net -- reported yesterday on the founding of a new group seeking to make medical marijuana legit in Texas.Lots luck with that, fellas.There's an ... More >>
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August 5, 2010
Rudy Trace Soliz III: Sweet, Sweet Sex Was Why Border Agent Let Illegals In
Another victim claimedJust as jury selection was about to begin in his trail late yesterday, Rudy Trace Soliz III, a former Customs and Border Protection, pleaded guilty to alien smuggling and bribery, the U.S. Attorney's office announced today.Soliz, 28, let a female co-conspirator bring illegal ... More >>
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September 14, 2010
Jaime Zamora: That's No City Park Worker, That's (Allegedly) A Murdering Drug-Cartel Kingpin
Breeding ground for drug kingpinsJaime Zamora had a good, steady job in Houston's Parks Department.What could be more exciting than that?Importing millions of dollars' worth of cocaine and murdering rivals, apparently.Zamora, 40, was sentenced today to more than 27 years in federal prison for dis ... More >>
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October 25, 2010
Marijuana Laced Soda: Dixie Elixirs, The Anti-Red Bull
dixieelixirs.comMedicinal marijuana is legal in 14 states, and it's big business. Earlier this month the New York Times reported on the financial boom from medicinal marijuana ads in Colorado, citing our sister publication in Denver and Village Voice Media's COO, Scott Tobias:
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October 26, 2010
Geroge Wesley Ellington: Sheriff's Deputy Indicted For Moonlighting As Security For Ecstasy Dealer
Rave on, with the help of the Harris County Sheriff's OfficeHarris County Sheriff's deputies moonlight all the time, providing security for local businesses.Including ecstasy dealers, apparently.A federal grand jury indicted a sheriff's deputy for selling criminal information to a ecstasy dealer ... More >>
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October 28, 2010
Pot Group Offers $10K Reward For Disproving Weed Is Less Dangerous Than Alcohol
Less safe than alcohol? Disprove it and $10K is yoursSafer Texas is a group that doesn't like alcohol, at least compared to marijuana.They say they work "to address increasing concerns that our laws prohibiting the marijuana market are sending a dangerous message to the public that alcohol is mo ... More >>
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November 18, 2010
Shock the Junkie
Is ibogaine really an addict cure-all?
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November 24, 2010
Montgomery County Cops Take Down Motel Meth Lab In New Caney
She's 34...THIRTY-FOUR!Acting on a tip, Montgomery County Constables took down a "shake and bake" meth lab in a New Caney motel in the wee hours of Saturday morning. Arrested were 34-year-old Kerry Lee Datray, of Cleveland, and 38-year-old Wayne Paul Walters of Lufkin. Each was charged manu ... More >>
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December 2, 2010
One Last Hit of K-2
Fake weed's final freewheeling days
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December 10, 2010
Stevie Victoria Brown-Crever: Pot Bust Stems From Michigan Plates?
Stevie Brown-Crever: Tough luck on 59The Montgomery County Police Reporter is a just-the-facts publication; here's one of their latest stories: Sunday evening approximately 7:00P.M. Deputy Juan Chapa and his partner Porter [a dog, by the way] were on routine patrol along US 59 near Creekwood ... More >>
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December 16, 2010
Richard Nutt: Sheriff's Deputy Knew Where To Get The Coke He Allegedly Sold
Photo courtesy HPDRichard Nutt, HCSO vet, charged with dealing cokeHarris County Sheriff's Deputy Richard Nutt, who we're sure has heard all the jokes he cares to about his name, has been arrested and charged with trying to sell two kilos of cocaine. Only a summary of the case is available, ... More >>
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April 4, 2011
Houston's NORML Chapter Pees on the DEA in Protest
It's not likely to rank up there with the great protests of all time, but it has been documented forever. Members of the Houston chapter of NORML gathered outside the regional offices of the Drug Enforcement Agency yesterday to protest what they say is the agency's habit of killing pets while makin ... More >>
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April 27, 2011
Tania Katrisse Ellington: Sheriff's Deputy's Wife Pleads Guilty to Knowing He Was Helping An Ecstasy Ring
Husband-and-wife jailbirdsThe wife of a former Harris County Sheriff's deputy has pled guilty to knowing about how her husband was helping to run an Ecstasy ring, a lesser charge than the original one she faced of aiding and abetting that enterprise. Tania Katrisse Ellington, 32, admitted gu ... More >>
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May 27, 2011
"Driving While Taking Upskirt Pictures" Lands East Texas Pair in Pokey
Photos Angelina County JailApril Peeples in front of the cameras again.It sounds like May 17 was a busy day for Angelina County sheriff Kent Henson. While he was at the scene of a meth lab bust, his radio crackled with news of a burglary in progress nearby, so he hopped in his car and sped of ... More >>
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June 23, 2011
Ron Paul Wants Feds' Hands Off Your Weed
Ron Paul and Barney Frank, probably discussing PhishIt takes a big issue to get US Reps Barney Frank and Lake Jackson's Ron Paul leading the fight together, but they have found one: Weed. Paul and Frank and four other Democrats (only one of whom has a last name that's also a first name) are ... More >>
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July 15, 2011
That's a Whole Lotta Weed, Son: 1,700 Pounds of Marijuana Seized in Ft. Bend County
"Mike" from the K-9 unit looking awfully smug...or stoned.So, there you are, rolling down the highway in your tractor trailer filled with weed one minute, just minding your own business, and the next minute, you are busted by a drug sniffing dog. Mama said there'd be days like this. Apparent ... More >>
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July 19, 2011
Dennis Hollifield: Guns, Toddlers and Showing Cops Where He Keeps His Meth
Photos Montgomery County Police ReporterDennis Hollifield: Dazed and confused.Dennis Eugene Hollifield of (naturally) Splendora looks like Robert Plant coming off a wild night, but he shows none of Plant's ability in Led Zeppelin's heyday to explain away the occasional guns-and-drugs episode ... More >>
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July 26, 2011
Feds Bring Down Hammer on Lufkin Meth Trade
In two distinct actions, federal authorities have indicted 17 East Texans on over 200 counts of crimes related to the crystal methamphetamine trade in and around Lufkin. You just might be hearing this song all over town this week: In the first action, the Lufkin Daily News has reported that a fed ... More >>
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July 27, 2011
Leslie Aikens: HPD Cop Indicted for Drug-Running, Taking Bribe
Leslie Aikens: Allegedly dealing cokeThe feds unsealed an indictment today against a 19-year veteran of the Houston police force accused of drug trafficking and taking a $2,000 bribe. Leslie Aikens, 46, was arrested at the end of his shift today. He is charged with aiding and abetting the p ... More >>
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September 5, 2011
Cops Raid Northwest Side Barber Shop, Find Stupefying Quantity and Variety of Drugs
This is almost as freaky as GoodfellazMy oh my the Goodfellaz Master Barber Shop certainly did live up to it's gangster-iffic name, if a court document Hair Balls obtained is to be believed. On August 4, a gang/narcotics investigation culminated with a raid on the North Houston Rosslyn Road ... More >>
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September 15, 2011
Gilmore Cox: Lufkin Man Gets 35 Years and 20 Years on Seperate Meth Charges
An unhappy Gilmore CoxGilmore Cox had a bad day in court on Wednesday. After pleading guilty last month to charges of possession of a controlled substance and possession of transport chemicals with intent to manufacture, Angelina County district court judge Barry Bryan sentenced him to 35 yea ... More >>
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September 30, 2011
HPD Sting Snags HBU Cop with Coke
Jesse Frank PerryA three-year veteran of the Houston Baptist University police force has been fired and now faces first-degree felony drug charges after the Houston Police Department caught him in a sting operation yesterday. According to the Harris County District Attorney's office, HPD had ... More >>
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October 14, 2011
DPS: The Mexican Drug Cartels Are Coming After Texas High Schoolers
They're coming for your high schoolers.The Texas Department of Public Safety issued a warning today to state residents that didn't sound at all alarming; it just mentioned that "the Mexican Cartels are Recruiting Texas High School Students." Yes, those innocent kids you blithely send off to ... More >>
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October 19, 2011
Gary Robert Watson, Bentley-Driving Alleged Heights-Area Coke Dealer, Goes Down in Target Parking Lot Bust
The Bentley is goneUp until September 16, Gary Robert Watson was living pretty large. He had the swanky condo in the Sawyer Heights development overlooking the Heights Target. Every day he drove a 2006 Bentley into the garage, and on his thick wrist the giant of a man rocked a $3K Breitling. ... More >>
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October 20, 2011
Obama's War on Weed
In a strange about-face, the president tries to hack medical marijuana off at the knees.
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October 26, 2011
Dr. Brown: A Look Inside the Weirdness
It was difficult getting people to talk, even off the record, for this week's feature story on Dr. Michael Brown. His latest defense attorney, Dick DeGuerin, was quoted this week in the Houston Chronicle as saying Brown "is not understood by the public," and he's right -- to a point. Fortuna ... More >>
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November 10, 2011
Darren Aronofsky's Meth Ads: Anti-Drug PSAs That Actually Might Work
Last week, we posted a list of anti-drug commercials that not only didn't stop any children from doing drugs, but potentially encouraged such abusing behavior. The famed PSA one-liner, "I learned it from watching you," probably made more kids of the '80s wish they were rolling doobies with th ... More >>
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November 17, 2011
Texas Tweakers
James "Bull" Durham burned down his mother's house while cooking meth. In Angelina County, the jail is full of guys like him..
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November 23, 2011
Jeffrey Tomorris Wright : Escapes From Trunk To Tell Cops About Buying Coke With Counterfiet Bills
Escambia County JailJeff Wright: Lucky to be alive after discovering (alleged) coke dealers don't like to be paid in funny moneySounds like quite a scene for Houston Police to roll up on last month... According to court records, on October 16, a squad car was dispatched to the scene of a dis ... More >>
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November 30, 2011
Bad Mugshot Bonanza: Five Longview Crime All-Stars Netted in Single Drug Bust
Gregg County JailAccused meth dealer George GriffisAn expired inspection sticker led to fresh arrests for five of Longview's most frequently busted miscreants Friday. Police say that 48-year-old Howard "Cowboy" Perkins and 47-year-old Clifton Ardry were stopped while riding in a pickup near ... More >>
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December 16, 2011
How Not to Turn Yourself in for Arrest When High
I turned myself in, for something I didn't do, 'cause I got hiiiiiiiggggh.If you have a warrant or two for your arrest, it's a good idea to go ahead and turn yourself in. That way you get to pick when you are detained, and not the boys in blue, who might just haul you in at a very inconvenien ... More >>
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December 16, 2011
Chicago Bears WR Sam Hurd Has a Ring...a Drug Ring!
The Stringer Bell School of Entrepreneurship.I remember former Houston Texans (and now Washington Redskins) wide receiver David Anderson telling me a couple years ago about a program that the NFL offered players in which they could travel to prestigious universities during the off season and ... More >>
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December 28, 2011
Morris "Big Boy" Jones: Luck Runs Out for (Alleged) Westside Fence
According to court records, police already had Morris "Big Boy" Jones over a barrel when they rolled up outside his Katy home. A criminal complaint shows they had already seized more than $30,000 worth of stolen Palais Royal threads from his storefront way out Clay Road. And when police went to visi ... More >>
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January 4, 2012
Christmas Catfight Lands Mom and (Alleged) Meth-Peddling Daughter Behind Bars (w/VIDEO)
Trinity County Constables OfficeBrandy Liles: Now facing another felony, on top of two from her earlier case.A woman charged with meth possession earlier this month is behind bars again after she and her mother were filmed beating a woman they suspected had been working with the police. Acc ... More >>
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January 26, 2012
Hammer Time: The Social Network Actor Busted at Border for Pot Brownies
Like the Batmobile of drugs, Cheech and Chong's van made of weed.The Texas border is a rather notorious place when it comes to drugs and people trying to cross into the United States carrying them. In fact, both Willie Nelson and Snoop Dogg were busted in the exact same location, Sierra Blanc ... More >>
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