Drug Trafficking

Secret Global Positioning System tracking is a violation of the Fourth Amendment, says a new U.S. Supreme Court ruling. The amendment protects against unreasonable search and seizure. All nine justices ruled that a warrant is necessary to use GPS when.......

Monroe County Sheriff's Deputy Nicholis Whiteman holds??marijuana seized during a Feb. 15 traffic stop. Photo: Monroe County Sheriff, courtesy. Two men were arrested for possessing marijuana after failing to stop at an intersection on Aviation Boulevard...

The Palm Beach County Commission this week joined the chorus of support for a prescription drug registry opposed by new Gov. Rick Scott. The County Commission Tuesday approved a resolution calling for the Florida Legislature to keep alive the registry.......

If you believe the numbers from the Drug Enforcement Agency, Florida has gone from consuming roughly 10 percent of the nation's oxycodone to 90 percent in just four years. The statistic is eye-popping, but is it true? The DEA says......

by Katie Fretland The first lady traveled to Afghanistan today in a surprise visit ahead of a conference in Paris where the United States hopes donors will pledge international aid to help the country, The Associated Press reports. Laura Bush......

We still don't know if Obama actually supports federal-court criminal trials for Guantanamo detainees. We've asked the Obama campaign, and haven't gotten an answer yet. The signs are he doesn't and chose his words poorly with ABC. Meanwhile, a......

Got lots of response to my Sunday column on the Pembroke Pines drug raid that led to the shooting death of homeowner Vincent Hodgkiss last week. My question: Are confrontational raids using heavily armed SWAT teams at the crack of......

Time for a little blogosphere sharing today. There???s an attorney who goes by the pseudonym Rumpole who runs a Miami-Dade based legal blog, Justice Building, who wrote an eloquent response to my post last week about the free speech case......

by Katie Fretland No lawmakers were present at President Bush's signing of a $162 billion war-spending bill today, but White House Press Secretary Dana Perino notes: "They're all out of town." Congress is out for a July 4 break. The......

by Nick Madigan Undercover Maryland State Police officers repeatedly spied on peace activists and anti-death penalty groups in recent years and entered the names of some in a law-enforcement database of people thought to be terrorists or drug traffickers,...

by Mark Silva President George W. Bush, who hasn't pardoned many criminals in his time, will have a chance to spare legions before leaving office in January. Requests for presidential pardons and commutations of prison sentences are piling up at......

by Aamer Madhani Back in 1968 in the aftermath of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., the strip along U Street--what was once known as the "Black Broadway" of Washington, D.C.-- was devastated by the riots that ravaged......