New York City residents are calling on Mayor Eric Adams to address what they call an “open-air drug market” that has taken over one street in the Bronx.Part of Melrose Avenue near the subway station on 149th Street has become a haven for those openly using drugs and exchanging money in broad daylight.FOX 5 New...
A New York-based former American Airlines mechanic who was facing financial troubles before being convicted of conspiracy to traffic cocaine has been sentenced to nine years in federal prison in a plot where he hid bricks of the drug under a passenger plane cockpit, according to federal authorities. Customs agents caught Paul Belloisi, a 56-year-old...
FIRST ON FOX: The Treasury Department is expected to announce sanctions Tuesday against individuals and entities linked to a violent Mexico-based drug trafficking cartel responsible for a significant portion of fentanyl and other deadly drugs trafficked into the United States, Fox News Digital has learned. The Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control is set...
Transit police in New York City have captured a man carrying a date rape drug at Penn Station in connection with the discovery of a dead woman stuffed in a suitcase near an apartment complex on suburban Long Island, according to authorities. Ronald Schroeder, 41, pleaded not guilty to charges of concealing a human corpse...
The city of St. Petersburg, Florida, is allocating $1 million from an opioid settlement to nonprofit organizations working to address the opioid crisis through treatment and recovery support services. As part of the settlement, St. Petersburg will receive $6 million over 18 years. The city is looking to fill resource or service gaps in the...
The 14-year-old Georgia high school student had a tumultuous home life, according to new emerging details about his mother’s criminal record. According to police and court records, viewed by Fox News Digital, the teen’s suspect mother, 43-year-old Marcee Anne Gray, had a lengthy criminal record, which included drug use and property damage. The teen suspect,...
Oregon’s move to recriminalize drugs was the first of many necessary steps, according to State House Republican leader Jeff Helfrich. The new law, which is a reversal of the state’s 2020 decriminalization, went into effect Sunday. “You saw overdose deaths, you saw drug usage on the street, crime, homelessness all soared after Democrats put this...
A transit agency in Florida installed new Narcan kits at its four bus terminals and its employees are being trained on how to use the nasal spray to reverse opioid overdoses. The Pinellas Suncoast Transit Authority told Fox 13 it is the first transit agency in the Sunshine State to offer such a Narcan training...
People caught in possession of hard drugs will once again be at risk of state criminal penalties after the state of Oregon opted to recriminalize possession of drugs such as fentanyl, heroin and meth. Oregon became the first state in the country to decriminalize possession of small amounts of hard drugs in response to a...
The progressive policies in San Francisco have fueled the drug crisis and continued crime in the Democratic-run city. Criminal defense attorney Brian Claypool, who is the owner and managing partner of the Claypool Law Firm, told Fox News Digital that San Francisco is a “train wreck” because of Democratic leadership that has spanned the last...
