While the toxicology report released in March laid the world's speculation about the cause of Whitney Houston's death to rest, the mystery still remained: Where was the cocaine? Initial reports found no evidence of illegal drugs in the late singer's Beverly Hilton hotel room where she died, but reports of "white, powdery remnants" found in her room surfaced in late March. more ›

After the toxicology report on Whitney Houston's body laid to rest speculation about how the singer died on February 11, attention then turned to how the drug that contributed to her death disappeared from the Beverly Hilton hotel room where she was found dead. more ›

It wasn't a huge surprise that cocaine ultimately lead to Houston's demise since she had struggled with it for years. The only real mystery was why there wasn't any coke found in the Beverly Hills hotel room where Houston died, especially since the coroner said that there was evidence she had used it shortly before she died. more ›

Speculation surrounding the February 11 death of Whitney Houston alleged that the singer died from a combination of prescription drugs and alcohol. However, the long-awaited toxicology report shows otherwise. more ›

Because if you did, some people are looking for you. Specifically authorities with the U.S Customs and Border Protection agency, who seized the 64 pounds of cocaine from a refrigerated container at the L.A./Long Beach seaport, according to City News Service. more ›

A producer for "Amazing Race" Jeff Rice was found dead in his Uganda hotel room with production assistant Catherine Fuller. The pair were found with large quantities of cocaine in their stomachs, raising questions about whether they were involved in a botched drug deal or poisoned. Ugandan police maintain the pair simply overdosed. more ›

One Orange County cocaine distribution network has lost 88 pounds of its inventory following a discovery by officials this weekend. The cocaine, with an estimated street value of $4 million, was found early Saturday morning in a Lake Forest house "that narcotics investigators believe was used as a stash house to hide and distribute the drug throughout the country." more ›

TV shows about suburban parents going rogue and becoming drug dealers are becoming de rigeur, from "Breaking Bad" to "Weeds." But for one OC woman, the somewhat unfathomable notion of going from law-abiding soccer mom to player in the drug trade became a reality. Tapped to become a drug mule in the 90s after her husband was diagnosed with a terminal illness and she found herself unable to support her family, a woman identified by the cops as Jane Doe and by the media as Marie began making $10,000 a day toting kilos of cocaine through airports in her suitcase. more ›

The second phase of Operation "Supernova" - a task force investigation of Ventura County's largest street gang - yielded three arrests on Tuesday. The arrests were made during an undercover operation in Camarillo when a Colonia Chiques gang member - Luis Manuel Tapia - agreed to sell undercover operatives ten pounds of methamphetamine and four kilograms of cocaine. His asking price? $200,000. more ›

An 18-month-old boy has been placed in protective custody with San Luis Obispo County's child welfare department after ingesting cocaine. Priscilla Tabarez, the toddler's 20-year-old mother, called police on Wednesday morning to report that her son had eaten some cocaine. more ›

Authorities are searching for a West Hollywood man thought to be at the core of an extensive cocaine distribution network that reaches from here in L.A. to New York State. An eight-month investigation has so far "netted 32 kilos of cocaine worth an estimated $3 million, nearly $900,000 in cash, illegal steroids, a cocaine press for drug street sales, money counters and two shotguns." more ›

Alfonso Cisneros of Pacoima chose the wrong route to transport 20 kilograms of cocaine in his black Chevy Monte Carlo on Tuesday night. His transfer may have succeeded had he steered clear of Magnolia and Orangethorpe Avenues in Fullerton. As he entered a routine traffic stop, Cisneros, 28, was stopped by Fullerton Police Officer Jonathon Miller. The officer uncovered Cisneros's current probation status for narcotics violations and invited Mueller, his police dog, to further investigate the vehicle. more ›

If you've got a cocaine habit, doctors are warning users that there is some tainted stuff on the market in Los Angeles and New York. "Doctors at LA BioMed at David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA say drug dealers are cutting cocaine with levamisole, used for deworming livestock," reports KTLA. The practice of using the drug to "cut" cocaine has been on the rise in recent years. more ›

It's a story straight out of a great B-movie: a 61-year-old Orange County doctor was found in a Mercedes doing "large amounts of cocaine" and having sex with a 29-year-old physician's assistant, according to KTLA. Security guards saw Alan O. Marcus and Amanda J. Aguirre sitting in the car in a parking structure near Saddleback Memorial Medical Center at around 2:00 p.m. on Tuesday. more ›

Up to 80 pounds of cocaine and methamphetamine were seized by L.A. County Sheriff's Deputies following a high-speed chase from Lynwood to Santa Fe Springs Tuesday night. The pursuit began after the suspect fled from detective surveillance in Lynwood around 9:25 p.m. and ended when the man crashed into a parked car at a Santa Fe Springs intersection. Sheriff's deputies found a duffel bag containing 50- to 80-pounds of cocaine and/or methamphetamine, according to reports. That's as much as 36 kilos. more ›

About 20 people were detained and the 10 freeway shut down for hours Saturday when police found 3,000 marijuana plants at an illegal pot clinic south of downtown Los Angeles. Officers serving a search warrant discovered a dangerous and extensive lab with "thousands upon thousands" of plants in a warehouse on the 1000 block of Santa Fe Avenue, reports KTLA. more ›

You know, people really overestimate how long it takes a person to deal with decades of recurring drug problems. Take Charlie Sheen, for example! Sure, it may seem like he's been dealing with massive addiction issues lately, and yes, it's possible that his publicist mentioned that he had checked into rehab. more ›

Rhode Island State Police said on Friday that a Hacienda Heights man arrested arrested during a Rhode Island drug bust on Jan. 30 may have acted as a West Coast connection for the largest operation in the state's history, reports the Pasadena Star-News. more ›

More details have emerged in the case of the coke warehouse in Valencia. The two Canadians that were arrested for stashing 100 pounds of cocaine and $2.4 million in a Valencia warehouse were tracked from LAX to NoHo by police, according to CBS Los Angeles. A task force made up of Santa Monica officers and federal law enforcement investigators raided the warehouse on January 12th and seized the cash and the coke after tracking suspects from the airport to the location of the stash. more ›

A Valencia warehouse was the stash site for over 100 pounds of cocaine and $2.5 million in cash that was linked to a pair of Canadian men now facing state drug charges, according to ABC7. The narcotics and money were seized Wednesday night by federal agents, who also arrested the two Torontonians, aged 19 and 32. The plan was allegedly for the men to conceal the coke in produce boxes and transport them back into Canada. more ›

Socialite Paris Hilton was arrested last night in Las Vegas "for allegedly having cocaine in her purse," reports LA Now. more ›

If you're driving an 18-wheeler with $45 million worth of cocaine, methamphetamine and marijuana, it's best not to make a traffic violation. But that's what happened Wednesday when San Bernardino Sheriff's Deputies pulled over a tractor-trailer on the 10 Freeway. Once pulled over, deputies found that paperwork for the truck's load was out of order. The driver, 32-year-old Fernando Luevano of Fontana, then gave them consent to search the vehicle. more ›

Randy Lee Soderstrom, a business man already in prison for 12 years, is pointing the finger at well-known names in a federal racketeering case: "An inmate at Folsom Prison who claims he supplied drugs to Broadcom Corp. billionaire Henry T. Nicholas III says in a federal racketeering lawsuit that he also delivered cocaine to Nicholas' Broadcom co-founder and Anaheim Ducks owner Henry Samueli, as well as former Orange County Sheriff Michael Carona, it was reported Friday." To that, lawyers for Corona, who is an easy target considering his past, are saying "preposterous." more ›

SDSU may as well stand for Sold Drugs to Some Undercover after 18 students were arrested today on drug charges. Nearly 100 people -- including 75 students -- have been stung in Operation Sudden Fall, a five-month DEA investigation on the San Diego campus.

Agents were involved in more than 130 drug purchases and seizures over five months, the DEA said. Among the drugs seized were 4 pounds of cocaine, 50 pounds of marijuana, 48 marijuana plants and 350 ecstasy pills. Police also confiscated one shotgun, three semi-automatic pistols, three sets of brass knuckles and $60,000. -- Bloomberg

What killed a 33-year-old woman discovered packed in dry ice in the Newport Beach hotel room of a cocaine dealer this past weekend? "Everything that happened was for religious reasons," Stephen David Royds told The Orange County Register on Sunday reports the AP. more ›

*UPDATE, Monday, March 10, 11:10 a.m.: The woman was on dry ice, apparently for 'religious reasons' and does not appear to be murdered. Full story can be found here.

R&B singer Ike Turner, who some consider a father of rock-n-roll, did not go gently into that good night when he died at his home near San Diego in December. In fact, the 76-year-old was high, high, high on cocaine. more ›

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California Highway Patrol Officer Joshua Blackburn, charged with stealing $1 million worth of cocaine being held as evidence, has had his arraignment postponed at his lawyer's request until early next month, KTLA is reporting. more ›