Today is WTH?! Thursday on NewsOne Now, our weekly rundown of the craziest stories trending in this week’s news. Aruba Tommy Bennett, Autumn Joy, and Lamont King join Roland Martin for this week’s foray into insanity. We kick things off at a Donald Trump rally with a couple of interesting political supporters vowing their allegiances to the GOP […]
Via CBS Los Angeles I guess all that money doesn’t make you any smarter because during the raid of Bieber’s LA bachelor paid drugs consisting of a “white powder” were found on his homie Lil Za, leading to his arrest. Originally thought to be coke, police later said that it could be Molly, a purified […]
Carrie Ann Billups’ neglect of her 4-year-old son (and cocaine supply) resulted in a five-year prison sentence for child abuse, Monday (July 30). The Chesapeake, Va. mother will actually spend roughly 12 months behind bars, because four years of her sentence was suspended. Billups, 26, pleaded guilty to a single felony child abuse charge in April, and also received credit for five months […]
As soon as reports were released last week from the Los Angeles Coroner’s Office revealing Houston’s exact cause of death, a serious question presented itself: who removed cocaine from Whitney’s hotel room? The answer is now clear. Houston confidant Raffles van Exel admitted he wiped her room clean in an interview just four days after her […]
Whitney Houston death is a result of accidental drowning, USA Today reports. Heart disease and cocaine use are listed as factors into her death. The report notes that her death was an accident. USA Today has more: The Los Angeles County coroner‘s office has determined that Whitney Houston’s official cause of death is: “drowning and […]
NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C.-Deangelo Mitchell is being charged with manslaughter after his brother, Wayne Mitchell ate cocaine that was hidden in Deangelo’s buttocks and died of a drug overdose. Wayne ate the cocaine to save his brother Deangelo from being charged with drug possession and Deangelo is now charged with involuntary manslaughter for his brother’s death. […]
A South African woman was caught trying to smuggle cocaine in her dreadlocks on a flight to Bangkok.
There are several theories about why drug related violent crime, which peaked in the late eighties and early nineties and then drastically fell after the mid-nineties into 21st century. While some claim the drop is due to increased penalties for crack cocaine and the War On Drugs, The Atlantic reports that it is due to […]
PARIS (AP) — A French court ruled Wednesday that former dictator Manuel Noriega can be extradited to Panama to serve time for past crimes, more than 20 years after being ousted and arrested in a U.S. invasion. The elderly former Panamanian strongman hasn’t seen his homeland in more than two decades, years he spent behind […]
MILWAUKEE-Fourteen people were charged with running a massive drug ring in Milwaukee after a rap video called “Trap House Money” led investigators to indict them for drug trafficking, money laundering, and gun offenses. While twelve members have been arrested, the rappers in the video Eastside L Boog and Eazy (real names: Larry Hooker and Earl […]
NEW YORK — A woman testified in a police corruption trial that the Brooklyn South Narcotics police squad would give her crack cocaine and force her to perform sex acts on them. The woman, Melanie Perez, said that she was introduced to other cops and even received a Christmas gift for her efforts. The trial […]
LOS ANGELES — According to the DEA, James “Jimmy Henchmen” Rosemond used the Los Angeles office of Interscope Records to import cocaine to Los Angeles. Rosemond managed “The Game” who is an artist on Interscope, and “The Game’s” road manager is also implicated in the incident. Feds Look To Seize Jimmy Henchman’s Million Dollar Homes […]
