Tag Archives: Smuggling

Unlikely Wild Animals Are Being Smuggled Into U.S. Ports: Corals 

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Sheriff Calls in Feds Again to Help Fix County’s Dysfunctional Jails

She also laid out her efforts to address a laundry list of recommendations the National Institute of Corrections gave the county in January. Sheriff Nicole Morrisey O’Donnell has asked the National Institute of Corrections to help stem the smuggling of drugs into Multnomah County’s jails, where two inmates overdosed and died last year. Source: Sheriff […]
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Drug use soars among inmates in Oregon’s prisons; officials struggle to stop smuggling, offer treatment

Daniel Brackins sat at a corner desk along a cinder block wall, flipping past Fendi photo spreads in the September issue of Elle magazine. A faint mark snaking across a Burberry ad caught his eye. He paused, trying to determine if the magazine’s perfume sample had left residue. Or had the glossy page been soaked […]
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How Seaside and other Oregon towns became targets of a Mexican drug cartel – OPB’s Think Out Loud

The Cártel Jalisco Nueva Generación, also referred to as CJNG, is a Mexican drug cartel with cells throughout the United States. Cartel members lived in Oregon and distributed fentanyl, meth and other illicit drugs in the state and across the country. The pockets of activity affected Portland and Hillsboro but also smaller communities like Oregon City, Seaside […]
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Coffee Creek corrections officer convicted of smuggling drugs

A former Coffee Creek Correctional Facility corrections officer was convicted in federal court of trafficking methamphetamine and heroin to inmates inside Oregon’s only women’s prison. Source: Coffee Creek corrections officer convicted of smuggling drugs

Legal Marijuana States Try To Curb Smuggling, Fend Off Trump Administration

Marijuana-legal states are trying to clamp down on “diversion” even as U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions presses for enforcement of federal laws against marijuana. Well before Oregon legalized marijuana, its verdant, wet forests made it an ideal place for growing the drug, which often ended up being funneled out of the state for big money. […]
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Marijuana states try to curb smuggling, avert US crackdown

Tracking legal weed from the fields and greenhouses where it’s grown to the shops where it’s sold is their main protective measure so far. Well before Oregon legalized marijuana, its verdant, wet forests made it an ideal place for growing the drug, which often ended up being funneled out of the state for big money. […]
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Busts highlight pot smuggling from legal states

Hard to tell if grown legally. Marijuana grown in Oregon and the handful of other states where pot is legal is being smuggled to other parts of America, authorities say. It’s often hard to tell if the trafficked weed was grown legally or illegally, but some say the fact that pot is leaving these states […]
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