In an awesome interview with Alexis Petridis for The Guardian, Elton John opens up about cocaine use and the temper he became famous for during what he describes as his “cocaine years.” Remember the famous incident when Elton John woke up to a storm outside his hotel room, and immediately called his managers demanding they change the weather?
A Toronto woman has been arrested trying to leave Colombia with two kilograms of cocaine inside her fake pregnancy belly. 28-year-old Tabitha Leah Ritchie was stopped while trying to board an Air Canada flight out of Bogota, when an inspector noticed that her pregnant belly was cold and hard. This video shows police removing her […]
Lindsay Lohan sat down with Oprah in a highly anticipated interview where she told about her time in rehab, public court battles, family feuds and her “addiction to chaos”. Oprah wasn’t pulling any punches.
A British grandmother is wasting away on death row in Bali for smuggling cocaine. Housed at Kerobokan jail, which is nicknamed ‘Hotel K’, 57-year-old Lindsay Sandiford is awaiting her death. Lindsay was sentenced in January of this year for smuggling £1,5 million (R23,702,674) worth of cocaine into Bali.
Two British girls are being held in a Peruvian jail on suspicion of drug smuggling. Police reportedly found 11kg’s of cocaine in their luggage, valued at R23 million.
The British Government’s former top advisor on narcotics, Professor David Nutt has claimed that the global financial crisis of 2008 was caused by widespread overuse and abuse of cocaine in the finances industry.
It’s a long and gruesome story that involves a pair of incredibly wealthy individuals. Hans and Eva Rausing were happily married for 21 years, she was from a wealthy American family and he was living off the money he inherited from the Tetra Pak carton empire. Unfortunately, the couple’s marriage was marred by drug abuse, which would ultimately be the cause of Eva’s death.
The United Nations has just just released the World Drugs Report for 2012. The information shared is pretty interesting. For example, what percentage of South Africans do you think smoke weed? Take a guess.
Now, I’m not saying that this story is in anyway related to Mark Keohane’s resignation, but these things happen. Reuters reports that Diego Perez Henao, the leader of the “Los Rastrojos” gang in Columbia, was arrested on Sunday morning near the Venezuelan-Colombian border. Read more about this modern-day Escobar inside.
Renowned sportswriter Mark Keohane resigned from his position as spokesperson for the South African Olympic team and stepped down as director of Highbury Safika Media (HSM) following sexual harassment and drug abuse claims.
Following further investigation it has come to light that Jeff Rice, the American TV producer found dead in his hotel room in Uganda, died after ingesting contaminated cocaine and not as a result of being poisoned as was initially thought.
Barely a month after Nolubabalo Nobanda made international headlines for trying to bring cocaine into Thailand via her dreadlocks, another South African has been caught smuggling drugs. Patience Monkei-Khame was arrested over the weekend in Malawi, after four kilograms of nose candy was found hidden in a baby pram she was pushing.
Footage showing a Liverpool drug dealer throwing R1,5 million worth of cocaine from a moving car has been released by police. The guy tossed 2kg of the drug from the window of a Mercedes while being followed by police filming the chase.
An overwhelming body of scientific evidence has led experts to conclude that fatty and sugary foods have the same addiction potential as drugs. This puts cupcakes in the same boat as cocaine – high in price, low in quantity, and a lot of fun with a stripper.
Just last week, an interesting fellow was busted trying to smuggle marching powder in his bra and panties, and now this. Are drug smugglers getting more creative, or just higher on their own stash? Seriously. This next lady actually tried to smuggle three kilo’s of coke, under her fake hair. Poor custom’s agents. I guess from now on, everyone’s a suspect.
A UK man was one of six drug smugglers caught yesterday at OR Tambo International. The creative fellow was wearing a handsome bra and panties stuffed full of cocaine.
What did you get for Valentine’s? The Colombian Navy got a submarine built by drug smugglers in the Timbiqui shipyard. Well I mean the seized it. It wasn’t a gift. Authorities say the sub was meant to transport about 7,000kg of cocaine into Mexico. So there were some pretty disappointed Mexican Valentines, I guess.
If you see powder falling from your roses this Valentine’s Day don’t assume it’s pollen – it’s probably cocaine. Smugglers in South America are head over heels about this time of year when they can hide their product in tons of roses heading for the overseas market. Border Control is trying to keep up but it’s tough – those roses have thorns.
Wow. You know when an entire society grows up with a certain ultra-influential cartoon character, and that cartoon character subtly peddles cocaine to other cartoon characters, and then suddenly in the 1970s, when all the guys and girls who grew up with that character become the first generation to vigorously export cocaine around the world? […]
A mobile phone company in Bulgaria has suspended a particular mobile phone number, 0888 888 888, after “every single person assigned to it died in the last 10 years.”