One of FBI's most wanted arrested in Mexico

Mexico arrests Jimmy Kimmel look-alike and suspected murderer on most wanted list.

The Killer of His Daughter's Mother.  A cunning American boy becomes a Mexican Cartel soldier and East L.A. executioner.

How Jose Saenz, one of FBI's Ten Most Wanted, was caught after 14 years

This Official Record was collected from a Law Enforcement agency on 11/18/2011.

Hit Man Trained by Mexican Cartels

Sigreda Fernandez

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Nov 27, 2012 SLO:  Another panga boat found in same area as last three

Treasury Designates Ibarra Cardona Drug Trafficking Organization

Action Targets Major Methamphetamine Precursor Import Network

Mexico's Drug War Is Changing Childhood  

Police narrowly cheat death after 'mobile meth lab minivan' explosion is caught on camera

Sheriff’s Department Receives $130,000 Grant for DUI Enforcement Campaign

UCSB Burglars Busted

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She defied Mexico's powerful drug gangs, who twice tried to gun her down

Maria Santos Gorrostieta - Astonishing HERO of Mexico's Undeclared War

They got her in the end.

MEXICO, D.F. -- The former mayor of Tiquicheo, Michoacan, Maria Santos Gorrostieta Salazar, 36 years old, was found dead Thursday morning in a vacant property in the Cuitzeo municipality (county).
Previously, Gorrostieta had suffered two attacks. one on October 15, 2009, when she was ambushed along


with her husband, Jose Sanchez, who died in the attack. She was wounded in the incident.
The other attack took place in January, 2010, when, after taking part in a public event in Altamirano City, Guerrero, she was attacked and wounded by individuals who were carrying assault rifles.

Enemy of Mexico’s drug cartels

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The Third Strike of a Presidenta

Borderland Beat

New Frontier of the Drugwar: Prescription Drugs

Let's end the prescription drug death epidemic

Don't miss Dr. Sanjay Gupta's "Deadly Dose" documentary. 

(CNN) -- It's the biggest man-made epidemic in the United States. That's how a doctor in Washington state described it to me as we sat outside the state Capitol in Olympia.

He was talking about accidental death from prescription drug overdoses. The doctor, Gary Franklin, medical director for Washington state's Department of Labor and Industries, recounted terrifying case after case and told me it was the saddest thing he had ever seen.
I remember him telling me about a teenager dying because he had taken too much narcotic medication after a dental procedure.  READ MORE  (video)...   Prescription drug deaths: Two stories

Edie Sedgwick  was a legendary socialite, heiress, model and actress born in Santa Barbara, California. Sedgwick is buried next to her mom in Santa Barbara County's Santa Ynez Valley, near the Neverland Ranch of Michael Jackson.... cause of her death  "acute barbiturate intoxication."

“Well you’re the boss applesauce“

Michael Jackson Used Employees' Names to Score Drugs

Billionaire hedge funder's wife arrested for 'driving under influence of drink and prescription drugs' after Hamptons car crash  

SANTA BARBARA: “Candy Man” Created Need for Drug Class for Many Patients

Two female patients taken to a hospital emergency room indicated they were among numerous people who used sex to pay for drugs from suspect Julio Gabriel Diaz.
 OUT ON BAIL  

UPDATE:  ' C A N D Y   M A N '    Malpractice Dr. Julio Diaz / Facing 200 Years in Prison.

Prescription drugs worth millions to dealers

New York man sold oxycodone pills from ice cream truck 
         Barbiturate Abuse Overview

Black market numbers crunch

Prescription Drugs On The Black Market (video)

In Depth: The black market for prescription drugs

Prescription, over-the-counter, and black-market drugs

Bob Dylan's handwritten lyrics for Just Like A Woman. /  VIDEO

Marijuana Legalization Victories Are Already Ripping the Drug War Apart

MEXICO CITY — Mexican President Felipe Calderon says the legalization of marijuana for recreational use in two U.S. states limits that country’s “moral authority” to ask other nations to combat or restrict illegal drug trafficking.
Calderon says the legalization of marijuana in Washington and Colorado represents a fundamental change that requires the rethinking of public policy in the entire Western Hemisphere.

Cops Say Legalize Drugs

A Brief History of Cannabis

The First Twelve Thousand Years

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Why is Marijuana Illegal?

Former Cop to Rachel Maddow: Legalizing Pot is a "Win-Win"

It's not just hippies who want to legalize pot.  Last night on The Rachel Maddow Show, former Baltimore cop and 32-year law enforcement veteran Neill Franklin spoke to Maddow about drug policy, but rather than defend the drug war, he  said it is time for President Barack Obama to lead in drug policy reform. 

“It’s a win-win because it has been drug prohibition like with marijuana that has driven a wedge in between police and community," said Franklin, "Number one, police can get back to the business that they want to do and that is to protect people from violent people — rape, robbery, murder, crimes against our children, domestic violence. We can get back to the business of that.”

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Santa Barbara Dr. Accused of Drug Trafficking Has Posted Bail

Santa Barbara Dr. Accused of Drug Trafficking Has Posted Bail  Photo:  Dr. Diaz on Milpas Street
Dr. Julio Diaz to be Target of Solvang Family’s Wrongful Death Lawsuit.  Attorney says suit to be filed in patient death linked to Santa Barbara physician accused of over prescribing pain medications.

Julio Diaz Support Foundation       (  OUR BACK YARD  )

January 2012 LA TIMES:  Dr. Julio Diaz has been under investigation for allegedly prescribing addictive painkillers and other commonly abused drugs to patients who had no legitimate need for the medications.
The affidavit details the deaths of 12 patients. A Times review of coroners' reports identified several additional cases in which patients were treated by Diaz or received prescriptions from him and later died of overdoses.
In an interview with The Times in October, Diaz initially said he was aware of only one fatal overdose within his practice. After being questioned by reporters about individual cases, he acknowledged multiple deaths and said he shared blame in some of them.
"I do feel responsible," Diaz said in the interview, conducted in an examination room in his two-story office, which is wedged between a sports bar and a discount store. "I was the one providing the medications and perhaps there were some hints there that I should have known they were going to overdose."
Looking back, he said, the overdoses "gave me a good lesson."
Among those who died: A 49-year-old father who overdosed on painkillers after recently completing a 60-day drug rehab; a 35-year-old mother found dead in her bedroom by her young daughter, who was hosting a friend for a sleepover; an out-of-work county bus driver who overdosed on painkillers and other drugs as she grew increasingly depressed over the upcoming anniversary of her 20-year-old son's overdose death, which she attributed to her son taking painkillers that Diaz had prescribed to her.
The woman's husband, Amos Barajas, was one of several deceased patients' loved ones who raised concerns about Diaz's alleged overprescribing.

DEA Agents Arrest ‘Candy Man’ ~ Accused of Facilitating Addiction and 11 Fatal Overdoses
A 77-page affidavit unsealed this week by the DOJ lists the medications that Diaz reportedly over-prescribed most often: Oxycontin, Percocet, Vicodin, Norco, Fentanyl, and Methadone, to name some. Most of these drugs are taken to relieve moderate to serious pain. Many are habit-forming, and extended use increases a patient’s tolerance. The affidavit explains that numerous area health practitioners – physicians, psychiatrists, nurses, pharmacists – had written to the state medical board in recent years, expressing concern about Diaz’s prescribing practices and the frequency in which his patients would overdose, experience withdrawal symptoms, or have other issues with their medications.
Diaz, known to many as the “Candy Man,” is also accused of trading pills for sex.

CRY FOR HELP, lost, alone and steps away from homeless.    PILLS FOR SEX LABOR
Sandy Parnell, the wife of the Governor of Alaska, described Sex Trafficking as “modern day slavery.”
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Where are Michael Stinchfield's mug shots? UPDATE: STANLEY TOMCHIN

Is he a white business man or something?  

If he is out on bail, we would like to know if we see him around.  

Santa Barbara Independent:  Police took Michael Stinchfield into custody at around 5 a.m. in his 1724 Garden Street home after officers witnessed the women with visible injuries screaming and fleeing and from the two-story residence. Just prior to that, multiple neighbors had called 911 reporting a disturbance.

Stinchfield, 55, is booked in County Jail on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon, making criminal threats, attempted rape, sexual battery, false imprisonment, dissuading a victim from calling police, and a hate crime.

Police have so far released few details surrounding the incident, citing the open investigation. They did note that officers have had multiple contacts with Stinchfield in recent weeks and months, but couldn’t elaborate on those encounters at this time.

"Time to stop calling him 'Santa Barbara businessman.' New name? Santa Barbara perp.."  SHOREBIRD

Last month and his troubles made this headline: 

 Hour Long Pursuit Started in Ventura

Is this the same guy?

A judge gave these rich white men a ridiculously low get out of jail
bail but at least there were mug shots. That wasn't enough to end the abuse
or the life of crime.  Santa Barbara Criminal Court Corruption is alive and well.
Micheal Stinchfield isn't the only perp on the prowl.
(NOT A MUGSHOT)  KEYT-TV VIDEO

STANLEY TOMCHIN

UPDATE:  Another one bites the dust.  

Sports-Betting Kingpin Arrested in Santa Barbara

Feds: Stanley Tomchin a Top Player in National Gambling Ring 

with Suspected Mob Ties

The son of jailed mafia boss Vincent 'Vinny Gorgeous' Basciano has been arrested on charges of helping to run a $50 million betting ring that operated across five states from New York to California.

25 People Indicted for Involvement in Illegal Sports Betting Enterprise

Sandra, a successful businesswoman, lost everything: children, mother, home, business, health, EVERYTHING, to methamphetamine. She went to prison.

UPDATE: STINCHFIELD MUGSHOT

* "Another One Bites the Dust" 

Cops Say Legalize Drugs

Separate meth raids bring a dozen arrests in Santa Barbara  Jerry Boeff, Robert Bergere, Kelly Bergere, William Konrad

     DON'T DO METH EVEN ONCE   ~  STAY OFF THE PIPE

10 MOST DANGEROUS CITIES IN THE USA

Why do you think the drug war isn't being talked about in this election?  

LEAP co-founder, Peter Christ, appears on WGRZ-TV in Buffalo, NY and takes on all aspects of our disastrous War on Drugs. Captain Christ is vice-chair of Law Enforcement Against Prohibition

Buffalo Ranked 10th Most Dangerous City

Drug raid in Buffalo, NY, nets 640 ‘medicinal’ marijuana lollipops purchased in California