New York Criminal Lawyer Blog

What goes around comes around. A distinguished public official in Las Vegas Nevada, known for his glamorous prosecution of celebrities for drug violations, certainly found out first hand following his recent arrest for buying crack cocaine.

A source familiar with the high profile attorney's legal record said the special prosecutor prosecuted Paris Hilton following her cocaine arrest a year ago. The special prosecutor was the attorney of record in the prosecution of rising star Bruno Mars on drug possession charges.

Authorities said that the special prosecutor was being investigated on allegations that he regularly bought $40 worth of coke every week from a street dealer. His arrest came as a result of being seen buying the drug on the street. The special prosecutor's BMW was idling on a Las Vegas street where law enforcement observed a possible drug buy taking place. The arrest report said that the special prosecutor picked up an African American male at one apartment building and dropped him off at another building. Then the special prosecutor allegedly drove around before returning to the same drop off site and picked up the same man. When authorities pulled the black BMW over the suspected drug dealer fled from the passenger side of the vehicle. One officer gave chase and apprehended the suspect, a resident of Las Vegas.

The suspect informed arresting officers that he knew the special prosecutor as "Joe". He told them further that "Joe" had been buying coke from him regularly for the past seven months to the tune of $40 per transaction four times every week, authorities told an NY Criminal Lawyer.
The special prosecutor is in a lot of trouble. His computer has been seized and he has been suspended from his prosecutor's job with the District Attorney's office in Las Vegas. It is not clear whether he has compromised other cases he has prosecuted for the DA. The special prosecutor may have violated the integrity of a number of cases he was handling by association with the drug task force he was running as part of his job. His immediate supervisor, DA Rogers, has revoked the special prosecutor's badge and is seeking a replacement for the long time prosecutor as soon as practicable.

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A distressed mother of an alleged 14-year-old alleged murderer has just been charged with entering the United States illegally, according to New York Criminal Lawyers and is facing deportation.

The 43-year-old suspect was arrested with her husband and taken from their apartment, where they lived for nearly eight years to be federally charged with illegal re-entry after previous deportation according to local police reports.

In 1997, the mother was originally deported for possession of rock cocaine according to police reports. No records indicated that she applied to be reinstated to the United States. Her husband was originally deported back in May of 2002.

It is unknown what prompted the arrest, but Lawyers said the couple was arrested and taken away in front of their other elementary school-aged children. The children were also taken from the couple at the scene.

The 14-year old alleged murderer, who admitted to participating in at four beheadings, is currently in a protected location while Mexican Authorities search for evidence of citizenship and other details about the boy who was supposedly born in San Diego.

Authorities continue to investigate whether or not the two older sisters had ties to organized crime. They are currently being held in a Mexico City detention facility, New York City Criminal Lawyers report.

In a similar story, three men were arrested this week for possibly working for the same drug group located in Cuernavaca. Arresting army troops were led to an area where these men allegedly buried at least two of their homicide victims. Cases like this are common in Manhattan and Long Island.

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A U.S. immigration official stated that the 82-year-old CIA-trained explosives expert exile Luis Posada Carriles application for US citizenship has raised concerns, and numerous red-flags. As she reviewed the form, she came across many things that were disturbing to her. Drug Possession was also suspected but never proven.

In section N400, Posado stated that he had advocated the overthrow of a government. He also noted a Panamanian conviction that caused him to serve 4 years in prison. There were others that were not available at the time of this publication.

In 2002 Posada was arrested for planning to assassinate Fidel Castro. He was convicted of a lesser charge. In 2004 he received a controversial presidential pardon, states a Brooklyn Criminal Lawyer. It’s not the first time that he came up against the law in Cuba. Cuban officials have alleged that Posada was involved in a little-known 1998 plot to bomb an civilian aircraft going from Cuba to Central America. He was also accused of a 1976 combing of a Cuban airline that killed 73 people. He was acquitted in a trial in Venezuela. Authorities in Manhattan and Staten Island have taken notice of this case for future reference.

Other people have testified that Posada also lied under oath at the hearings for asylum and naturalization in 2005 and 2006. Due to a litany of errors in translation and factual date in the transcripts of the hearings, the question of whether Posada lied under oath is still debatable. There are already plans in place to challenge the transcriptions and translations at an upcoming date, according to a New York Criminal Lawyer.

Posada applied for citizenship in 2005 after sneaking back into the country. He applied because of his service in the U.S. army during the 1961 Bay of Pigs. There are currently 11 charges against Posada.

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Three local men are suspected of distributing illegal steroids in the Delaware Valley region of Philadelphia.

Fourteen people were arrested related to the case, with two middle aged men being local to the region. All were detained Wednesday afternoon awaiting the results of the trial.

The steroids ring was managed by a police detective from Philadelphia. This was an extremely sophisticated and organized criminal venture. Large quantities of Anabolic Steroids and Human Growth Hormone were purchased from China and Europe. The New York Criminal Lawyer said that the most common drugs sold through the ring were Nandrodex 300 and Testodex Enanthate 250. Both of these are steroids which can be used to build muscles very quickly, however they have some very dangerous long term side effects. In Manhattan and Staten Island this is considered to be drug possession.

The scale of the steroids ring is thought to of been worth millions of dollars a year. The FBI have had a major success by shutting down this drug ring. Taking such a large quantity of illegal drugs off the market has helped to protect the public.

The two local suspects purchased the steroids from the police detective who then sold them onto clients in the local area. Many of the steroids were sold through fitness clubs for the purpose of body building, the N York Criminal Lawyer explained that the names of the fitness clubs were not released.

Federal agents also discovered that text messages were used to arrange the sales of steroids. The drugs were also sold through various websites such as www.steroids.com and www.isteroids.com. The New York Criminal Lawyer explains that this drug dealing ring could become much bigger if the websites were better designed, shutting down the drug ring this quickly was in everyone’s best interests.

The NY Criminal Lawyer said that the trial was ongoing. If the suspects are found guilty then they are expected to spend up to 10 years in prison. This was a very high profile case which was investigated by the Philadelphia PD, FBI, Drug Enforcement Administration and US Postal Inspection Service. The fact that this drug ring was run by members of the police force is very concerning, especially as it managed to run undetected for so long.

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