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Natalie Wood's Daughter Busted for Heroin, Cocaine

Mary Papenfuss — Tue, 01 May 2012 00:21:00 CDT

Natalie Wood's 38-year-old daughter has been busted at her Malibu home on suspicion of felony possession of cocaine and heroin, sources tell TMZ . Police discovered the drugs when they responded to reports of a woman screaming and a gunshot, said the sources. An unidentified man at Courtney Wagner's home was...

Cheap, Potent Heroin Gains Foothold in Suburbs

Sat, 14 Apr 2012 11:34:29 CDT

With heroin becoming cheaper than a six-pack ($6 for a "button") and as easy to obtain as pot, police and prosecutors are turning to more aggressive tactics against the drug, dusting off little-used laws to seek murder charges against suspected dealers and provide for longer prison sentences. The more assertive...

Customs Finds Record 180 Heroin Pellets in Woman

Rob Quinn — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 01:30:00 CDT

A woman arrested at Washington's Dulles International Airport has set a record that nobody who values their life would attempt to beat, customs officials say. The 52-year-old woman had swallowed 180 pellets of heroin, containing nearly five pounds of the drug, reports the Los Angeles Times . The woman was detained...

Vaccine Could Cut Heroin Addiction

John Johnson — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 14:01:13 CST

Scientists in Mexico are making progress on a front sure to displease the cartels: a heroin vaccine. It seems to have worked in mice, and now researchers are preparing tests on humans, reports the Guardian . The idea behind the vaccine is to make the body immune to the effects of...

Wire Actress Pleads Guilty to Heroin Charge

Rob Quinn — Tue, 09 Aug 2011 01:00:00 CDT

Felicia "Snoop" Pearson, best known for playing a drug-gang hit woman of the same name on The Wire , has pleaded guilty to conspiring to distribute heroin. The 31-year-old actress was arrested along with dozens of others earlier this year after a federal-state wiretap of a Baltimore drug ring. She has...

Redmond O'Neal Busted With Drugs ... Again

Wed, 03 Aug 2011 08:52:48 CDT

The son of Farrah Fawcett and Ryan O'Neal is in jail in Southern California after police stopped him for a traffic violation and allegedly found heroin in his car. Redmond O'Neal was pulled over about 8:30am yesterday after an officer saw him fail to stop for a red light,...

New Tapes Air Bob Dylan's Heroin Addiction

Evann Gastaldo — Tue, 24 May 2011 09:22:18 CDT

Bob Dylan turns 70 today, but he confesses in a previously unheard interview that along the way he “kicked a heroin habit in New York City” in the early ‘60s. “I got very, very strung out for a while, I mean really, very strung out. And I kicked the habit....

Drug-Seeking Burglars Snort Man, Dog Ashes

Mary Papenfuss — Thu, 20 Jan 2011 02:01:08 CST

Oops. Burglars were so desperate for drugs when they broke into a Florida home that they snorted a powder found in a ceramic urn. But they didn't get even a hint of a buzz because they had inhaled some of the cremated remains of the former man of the house...

Cornell Student Arrested Holding $150K of Heroin

Nick McMaster — Tue, 21 Dec 2010 17:01:09 CST

Another Ivy League drug bust : Police arrested a Cornell senior who they say happened to be in possession of $150,000 worth of heroin. Keri Blakinger, 26, was allegedly holding the cache—about 500 doses' worth—in a hotel parking lot in the Collegetown section of Ithaca when police arrived...