Sentences with phrase «of powder cocaine»

The arrests were made following an investigation by the Broome County Special Task Force & Binghamton Police, they confiscated 130 grams of unpackaged, pure heroin and about 52 grams of powder cocaine, all 3 are being held at the Broome County Jail without bail.

A bag containing more than 1/8 ounce of powder cocaine and a bag containing more than 1/8 ounce of fentanyl were discovered, the District Attorney's Office said.

Crack is terribly addictive, but its use is a direct consequence of the high cost of powdered cocaine.

Not exact matches

But the most daring drug story of all comes from coca - growing Bolivia, where powdered chiles are mixed with powdered cocaine and snorted for what is supposedly the ultimate rush.

While it is true that many chile lovers exhibit distinctly druggie habits — we've seen people who always travel with a stash of hot sauce, Texans who carry tiny chilipiquin pods in silver snuff boxes, and Californians who indulge in the «pink fix,» which is chile powder mixed with cocaine — chile is not a truly addicting substance.

The egg Jenna cracks with one expert hand is actually a sliced peach with corn syrup inside a plastic Easter egg (raw egg onstage = not sanitary); the melted chocolate is mixed with oil to pour smoothly and sensually; whipped cream pies are instead topped with buttercream so they won't melt under stage lights; and the flour they blow onto the crowd to end the recipe dream sequences is inositol, a powdered form of vitamin D that movie prop managers use to fake cocaine.

This amended a number of previous acts to reduce the disparity in sentencing for those found in possession of crack cocaine as opposed to powder cocaine.

The defendants — who range in age from 18 to 56 — were targeted during pre-dawn raids early today and are charged with selling powdered and crack cocaine, heroin and highly addictive prescription pharmaceuticals to undercover police officers on dozens of occasions since last November.

Jim has a few snorts of cocaine and before he knows it, his whole life revolves around getting more of the white powder, until his job, his marriage, his health are gone.

We see this reality in many ways, from where good public schools and bad ones are found to sentencing disparities for possession of crack versus powder cocaine.

For cocaine users, a rolled up $ 20 bill may be the most convenient tool for snorting the powder form of the drug.

Ex cocaine addict Jeremy McConnell has been partying with wild pals who «rack up lines of suspicious white powder» and mock his dead mother, grim footage A Los Angeles court room is to hear a bitter legal dispute between Liz Crokin, 37, an author, and Mallory Hill, 59, her older ex-lover, over claims he gave

Michael Cera, who, in a way completely contradictory to his usual screen persona, is a cocaine fiend who blows some of the white powder in Christopher Mintz - Plasse's face before he's found in the bathroom with pants around his ankles a woman on either side of him.

Yardie tells the story of D, a courier carrying cocaine from Jamaica to London and decides to go it alone, disappearing into the mean streets of Hackney carrying a kilo of white powder that his friends are anxious to recover.

By the time we hear it in From Paris with Love, Charlie Wax (John Travolta) has sat down at a Chinese restaurant, held a gun to the waiter's head, killed all the goons who are protecting the eatery's cover, shot holes in the ceiling until it rains cocaine, and filled up a vase full of the powder for leverage later on.

Opening: «Fernando Mastrangelo: NOTHING» at Mike Weiss Gallery The paintings in «NOTHING,» designer / sculptor / conceptual artist Fernando Mastrangelo's new show at Mike Weiss Gallery, are made of dyed salt, but that's a relatively tame white powder when it comes to Mr. Mastrangelo's practice — in 2009, he unveiled a 30 - pound sculpture made entirely out of cocaine.

At the time of the arrest, police officers found several grams of crack on Davis and crack, powdered cocaine, and several other drugs in Nembrand - Walker's pockets.

Kimbrough holds that a judge may «consider the disparity between the Guidelines» treatment of crack and powder cocaine offenses» in sentencing.

We vacate the sentence and remand to the district court to reconsider the sentence in light of the Kimbrough decision and to determine whether the disparity between crack and powder cocaine produced a sentence «greater than necessary» under § 3553 (a).

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.

Crack is a freebase form of cocaine that's street value is cheaper than powder cocaine.»

We hold that, under Booker, the cocaine Guidelines, like all other Guidelines, are advisory only, and that the Court of Appeals erred in holding the crack / powder disparity effectively mandatory.

In making that determination, the judge may consider the disparity between the Guidelines» treatment of crack and powder cocaine offenses.

(1) The current quantity - based penalties overstate the relative harmfulness of crack cocaine compared to powder cocaine.

«While a handful of district courts, following Booker, have taken it upon themselves to lower guideline ranges for crack offenses based on a perceived unfairness in comparison with sentencing for powder cocaine crimes, this is plainly beyond judicial authority, and the appellate courts to address the matter have unanimously rejected this result.