 | Yaba (Thai: ยาบ้า, Lao: ຢາບ້າ, literally 'mad drug' or 'crazy pill'), are tablets containing a mixture of methamphetamine (25-35mg) and caffeine (45-65mg). The use of this drug combination is widespread, particularly in South and Southeast Asia. |  |
 | In the Philippines and Indonesia it is shabú. In China it is ma-goo or ma-guo. Yaba tablets are typically consumed orally, but can be smoked or injected. Increase in the use of methamphetamine, globally, has outpaced that of any other drug. |  |
Video footage of the moment more than £5m of cocaine was found. |  |
| Burnaby RCMP shared video of a professional thief, likely driving a stolen Audi. Cops are on the hunt for the sawed off chitbag and remind people to NEVER leave anything of value in plain sight in their vehicles. This includes spare change, which is motivation enough for these types. |
 | A 6 1/2-year prison sentence for the one-time girlfriend of former Orange County Mexican Mafia chief Peter Ojeda will stand. Suzie Rodriguez, 57, was convicted along with Ojeda of racketeering and criminal conspiracy to commit murder and assault with serious bodily injury. Prosecutors described Rodriguez as Ojeda’s “eyes and ears” in Orange County. Ojeda pulled 15 years and died in prison. |  |
 | Ojeda was embroiled in a struggle for control of Orange County with Armando Moreno, a former ally turned rival. The battle led to a wave of violence in Orange County jails. Ojeda ultimately won after gaining the support of high-ranking Mexican Mafia members from Los Angeles. Letters in support of Rodriguez described her as a community volunteer with a “big heart.” See ----->The Mexican Mafia |
| Mexico’s president revealed a recent online video, which shows public officials sifting through large piles of cash. The men are Rafael Caraveo Opengo, former technical secretary of the Senate Administration Committee, and Guillermo Gutiérrez Badillo, private secretary to the governor of Queretaro. The President speculated the money was just one installment of bribery payments from the former director of state oil company Pemex, Emilio Lozoya. Lozoya was extradited from Spain to face charges for his role in the massive kickback scheme orchestrated between officials at Pemex and their counterparts at Brazilian construction giant Odebrecht. |
 Rafael Caraveo Opengo |  Guillermo Gutiérrez Badillo |  Emilio Lozoya has pleaded not guilty. |
Jam Master Jay was shot dead at a Queens recording studio on October 30th, 2002. Ronald Washington, 56, and Karl Jordan, Jr., 36 have been charged with murder. The shooter was Jordan and it was related to a 20kg cocaine deal.
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 | London cops are investigating a blaze that broke out at a duplex where peelers at the nearby Beef Baron strip club stay. The house is owned by Salvatrice and Domenico Barletta. The Beef Baron is operated by Vincent Barletta, the brother of Hells Angels Robert Barletta. Salvatrice Barletta, their mother, owned a vacation property that was destroyed in an arson in 2018. That started 'Operation Hobart'. |  |
 | Barletta owned Flesh Gordon’s strip club before the Alcohol and Gaming Commission of Ontario pulled his liquor licence in 2014 due to his HA ties. |  |
 Julio César Carrillo | Gunmen have killed a son of legendary drug lord Amado Carrillo Fuentes. Julio César Carrillo, was found shot to death at a house in the city of Novolato. After the death of the elder Carrillo Fuentes, his brothers and sons continued operating the Juárez drug cartel, based in Ciudad Juárez. For years, the Juarez cartel was locked in a turf war with the rival Sinaloa cartel. Most recently the Juárez cartel's armed enforcement wing, known as "La Linea," has split off and began operating on its own. |   |
 | The guided missile destroyer USS Pinckney intercepted a small boat about 200 nm to the southwest of Jamaica and seized 120kg of cocaine on July 24. In a shift from years past, research indicates that most of the cocaine headed north from Colombia is ultimately bound for Europe and other overseas markets, where prices are higher than in the United States. Container ports like Kingston serve as transshipment hubs for these cargoes. |
 | The majority of the northbound trafficking across the Caribbean and Eastern Pacific may be aimed primarily at moving cocaine closer to these seaports - not to the U.S. border. |  |
Karl Jordan, Jr.
Jam Master Jay (Jason Mizell) was considered a hip hop superstar.
