Sentences with phrase «cocaine through»

He was transporting $ 3 million worth of cocaine through Michigan in his beat - up old pickup truck when he was arrested by the DEA.

After being fired in 2014 following a DOI investigation, she helped distribute more than 50 kilograms of cocaine through the mail, according to federal prosecutors.

This is the moment a gang of 13 drug smugglers led by two corrupt BA baggage handlers who imported # 32million of cocaine through Heathrow were busted before being jailed for more than 139 years today.

In recent months, the smugglers have sent big loads of cocaine through the Caribbean and South Florida, mostly using cargo ships, investigators say.

The Medellin cartel, which Lehder co-founded, had close links with Noriega, who allowed it to ship cocaine through Panama for a reported $ 100,000 (# 68,000) a load.

Federal authorities have charged 19 people for their alleged roles in a drug trafficking organization that moved heroin and cocaine through the New Haven area.

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Faced with that obstacle, traffickers from the late 1980s through 1995 began rerouting their cocaine to the West, shipping it on commercial trucks and cars across the U.S. - Mexico border.

In the late 1970s and early 1980s, most of the cocaine entering the United States came through South Florida, usually via private boats or airplanes.

In effect he was saying that faith is an opiate, that men drug themselves with it, become sleepy, complacent and comfortable through the use of it, and that their main object in going to church is to be sprayed once more with spiritual cocaine so that they may feel less acutely the ills of life and the miseries of men.

Yet the available supply of cocaine and heroin has remained constant all through the drug war.

In 1992 he was convicted of distributing cocaine in the Atlanta area and laundering the profits through his clubs and real estate investments.

The captured fugitive is accused of having headed an enormous cocaine network, which included production in the jungles of Bolivia, Colombia and Peru, and continued through to distribution on the continent and as far away as the United States and Europe.

The effects of cocaine on peripheral nerves — due to rapid uptake through the skin and gills — thus appear to override any potential effects on the brain.

Jones added that hope is on the horizon through preclinical trials that are testing several amphetamine - like drugs for effectiveness in treating cocaine addiction.

Research published in the journal Analyst has demonstrated a new, non-invasive test that can detect cocaine use through a simple fingerprint.

By measuring changes in the levels of proteins that control each cell death program and by observing the cells» physical changes, the team saw clearly that cocaine causes neuronal cell death through out - of - control autophagy.

In 2013, the team found that nitric oxide is involved in cocaine - induced cell death through its interactions with GAPDH, an enzyme, but didn't learn how precisely the cells were dying.

Once bonded, the antibodies make the cocaine molecules too large to slip through the tight blood - brain barrier.

Now, in a government - funded study for which Johns Hopkins investigators recruited a small number of otherwise healthy regular cocaine users through advertisements and word of mouth, results point to «impatience» as a clear barrier to condom use in those who are sexually aroused because of the drug.

Researchers compared the lure of drugs, specifically cocaine, in three sets of mice: The test or «trained» mice were put through a nine - day cognitive training program based on exploration, incentives and rewards while their «yoked - to - trained» counterparts received rewards but no challenges.

Drug use affects oral health through direct physiological routes such as dry mouth, an increased urge for snacking, clenching and grinding of teeth, and chemical erosion from applying cocaine to teeth and gums.

Through the combined use of in vivo microdialysis and behavioral and neuropharmacological techniques, his early work characterized the role of serotonin and its signaling via serotonin - 1B (5 - HT1B) receptors in the ventral tegmental area, nucleus accumbens, and ventral pallidum in the rewarding actions of cocaine and ethanol.

Dr. Parsons has provided similar insights into the mechanisms through which endocannabinoids modulate the rewarding effects of opiates, alcohol, and cocaine, and he is presently extending his evaluations of this stage of the addiction cycle to include animal models of commonly occurring genetic polymorphisms that are associated with problematic drug use and dependence in humans.

Striatal microRNA controls cocaine intake through CREB signalling.

Jones added that hope is on the horizon through preclinical trials that are testing several drugs for effectiveness in treating cocaine addiction.

Sugars impact gives the brain the same reward system (through a flooding of Dopamine) as seen in narcotics such as cocaine.

Before Stevie Nicks checked herself into rehab in 1986, she had snorted so much cocaine it tore a hole through her nose.

This has the risible effect of turning her into a one - note victim, suspiciously leafing through her husband's papers and taking hits of cocaine to dull the pain.

As we learn, trafficking meth and cocaine to the United States is a small part of the cartel's crimes, which include subjugating the population into a semi-slave state through extortion, kidnapping, torture and mutilation.

It's 1985, the height of the cocaine importation, mostly through Southern Florida.

«The Deuce» follows the story of the legalization and subsequent rise of the porn industry in New York's Times Square from the early»70s through the mid»80s, exploring the rough - and - tumble world that existed there until the rise of HIV, the violence of the cocaine epidemic and the renewed real estate market ended the bawdy turbulence of the area.

A search through Pellit's house results in an unintentional eruption of cocaine and Kurt leaving behind evidence just so he can perform a childish prank.

There was his untimely death at 37 (from a cocktail of cocaine and sleeping pills), the way he was found (still clutching a cigarette), the number of filmed works (44), his lovers (countless men and women), his great loves (three men) his abuses (drugs, alcohol, food, people) and, stringing all together, a seer's ability to atone for his bleakest deeds by creating films shot through with emotional integrity.

The lead character, brilliantly played by Sylvie Testud, is quite abhorrent at times, yet one can not resist watching her stumble through life seemingly without a care for anyone around her — and this is before she gets addicted to cocaine and prescription drugs.

While Christian opts to drown his sorrows in parties, booze, and cocaine, his sister Susan (Gaby Hoffman) hopes to cope through hosting their annual family get - together while their younger brother, Win (Dan Bittner), is too busy enjoying his own flourishing writing career to give it much of a second thought.

Along the way they go through the checklist of indie road movie conventions: meet eccentric characters (including a guy who communicates solely through text messaging), get sidelined by random distractions and argue over Colton's ill - advised idea of smuggling a brick of cocaine (ingeniously concealed in the glove box).

Switching to Sport, Sport +, or Race modes cuts through the genteel veneer, progressively skewing the E63's ride ever more geological and shoving cocaine up the powertrain's nose.

For instance, in September 1990 Mexican federal judicial police seized approximately 457 kilograms of cocaine, which they suspected had been smuggled into Mexico through the border area between Belize's Hondo River and Santa Teresa, Mexico.

In Congo River, an installation of car tyres adorns the ground floor gallery, onto which a line of salt is drawn, winding its way over the peaks and crevices of the rubber in the same way that a river meanders through mountains (here, the line references the cocaine trafficking of Ortega's native Mexico).

The cleared land is also used for clandestine airstrips to land small planes loaded with cocaine which is then trucked through Mexico and across the border to US consumers.:: Via Los Angeles Times

I've got a great gag — I'll take this bag of harmless white powder and tell people going through security that it is cocaine that I found amongst their property in the X-ray bin.

One of the people accused on a single charge of importing cocaine, Michael Bryan, had been answering questions through an interpreter qualified under Ontario's new model for accreditation.

Interstate I - 95 winds through South Carolina, and has earned a reputation since the 1980's for being one of the country's largest drug trafficking traffic stop corridors, funneling marijuana, cocaine, and heroin from Cuba through Florida and into the Northeast.

The pillow salesman had so much crack cocaine pounding through his bloodstream he hadn't slept for two weeks, he would later say.

They have weathered through Douglas's throat cancer, his son's legal struggles and ultimate 5 - year jail sentence for dealing methamphetamine and cocaine, and Zeta - Jones's struggle with Bipolar II Disorder.