Anyone lose track of $500,000 worth of marijuana, bundled in 35 bales and left to float near the Marina del Rey harbor? "The bales were found floating in the water by members of the Los Angeles County sheriff's marine operations shortly after noon Wednesday." more ›

It was the last medical marijuana dispensary standing. While a ban of all medical marijuana dispensaries operating in the City of Los Angeles is in the works, the LAPD continues to crack down and wrapped their storefront sweep in Chatsworth Monday afternoon. more ›

Federal government officials seized over 1,000 pounds of marijuana from a Mexican panga boat beached at Malibu's Pirate's Cove on Friday night. Three male suspects were arrested, and sheriff's deputies are on the hunt for a fourth possible smuggler. more ›

Demi Moore's "people" want us to think the actress was suffering from exhaustion when her friend called 9-1-1 Monday, and now TMZ reports that Los Angeles City Attorney Carmen Trutanich is requesting any drug references be redacted from the audio recording of the call when it is released to the public. more ›

Call it the "Kutcher effect," but Demi Moore's recent trip to the ER is being blamed on a drug best associated with bored kids from the 'burbs: whip-its. A friend of Moore reportedly called 9-1-1 after the actress inhaled so much nitrous oxide that she began to have a seizure. more ›

The Association of Surfing Professionals (ASP) has announced a crack down on the world's best surfers, enforcing an anti-doping policy to force professional surfers to be more, well, professional. more ›

Rhonda Gonzales, 44, made a trip out to San Dimas Saturday, to pay a visit to her son, who is at a juvenile probation camp there. Gonzales, however, either forgot to take her marijuana stash out of her handbag, or was hoping to pass it to her kid, since a routine search turned up "multiple bundles" of marijuana, as well as "a falsified medical marijuana card." more ›

Forget the file in the cake trick, how about getting drugs into the jail in a tasty rolled-up Mexican food staple: Heroin in a burrito. One Los Angeles County Sheriff's Deputy, "assigned to provide courthouse security," surrendered Wednesday for having willingly smuggled the drugs into the courthouse jail in a 2010 incident. more ›

A group of kids accused of selling drugs at their high school are about to learn a lesson the hard way -- 24 students were arrested yesterday in a raid, reports KTLA. Twelve of the teenagers taken into custody were from Vista De Lago High School in Moreno Valley, and the other twelve were from Elsinore High School in Wildomar. more ›

Federal agents arrested a 21-year-old Mexican citizen on Tuesday morning at the San Ysidro border crossing on suspicion of trying to smuggle meth into the U.S. inside two cans of cheese sauce and one can of jalapenos. more ›

San Diego-based sailors are in hot water after being busted for using, possessing and/or distributing the designer drug dubbed "spice." Six investigations of the crew aboard the aircraft carrier Ronald Reagan over the past month have identified 28 sailors as the culprits. more ›

Patricia "Bonnie" Pointer, one of the original members of the singing group The Pointer Sisters, was busted early this morning, says the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department. Pointer, 60, was arrested for possession of a controlled substance in the 1700 block of 125th Street, Los Angeles. more ›

Here's the tally from the Drug Enforcement Administration for last Saturday's Prescription Drug Take-Back Event: Los Angeles area residents turned in 16,560 pounds of medicine - more than 8 tons. Dang. That's a lot of pills! more ›

Oh noes! This Halloween could find your treats laced with tricks! And in this case, tricks are not for kids. Yes, we're talking about drugs. The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department's Narcotics Bureau is cautioning unsuspecting Angelenos to be on the lookout for candies, soda, freezer pops and other snack foods "containing untested amounts of concentrated marijuana." Zoinks! 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 attorney visiting his client in jail could be facing time himself after a drug-sniffing dog caught him trying to sneak in 26 balloons full of heroin, meth, pot and syringes to the jail. more ›

A group that represents 35,000 doctors in the state is calling for the legalization of marijuana at the federal level. The California Medical Association, a lobbying group for doctors in the state, fights tooth and nail to protect doctors' rights to treat their patients the best way they know how. The doctors' group is complaining that right now federal policy is getting in the way of their work. more ›

A cockfighting raid at a home just north of Lancaster on Wednesday resulted in the arrests of six people and the seizure of approximately 100 cocks. Four men and two women were detained in the rooster raid. 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 ›

Youth, they say, is wasted on the young, and in Newport Beach, it seems an alarming number of the young are wasted on heroin. Authorities there are cautioning locals that there has been in increase in arrests in conjunction with heroin use and sales, according to the OC Register. more ›

The New York Post has caught up with Stone to detail the raggedy twilight of his career. The drug-addled funk legend has lost mostly everything and he's living in a van in Crenshaw. more ›

While our roads are getting safer, the number of Americans are dying from drug overdoses has doubled in the last decade. That means more of us are dying from overdoses than traffic accidents for the first time since the government started keeping track of drug-related deaths in 1979, according to the Los Angeles Times. more ›

A 21-year-old Compton man is learning it is not okay to try to conceal your meth in some potato chip bags and board a flight at Los Angeles International Airport. Even if they are cheddar and bacon flavored. more ›

Redmond O'Neal, son of actor Ryan O'Neal and the late Farrah Fawcett, admitted to using methamphetamine at a live-in drug rehab facility and was taken into custody on Thursday. The troubled 26-year-old has been in and out of jail and rehab facilities, including his August arrest which uncovered heroin in his vehicle. more ›

A young man from Cypress nearly died Sunday night when he jumped out of a moving vehicle in Anaheim. The 22-year-old, whose identity has not been released, was naked and under the influence of unspecified drugs, say authorities, according to the OC Register. more ›

When you care enough to send the very best...well, maybe you shouldn't be sending it on a flight to Los Angeles. Federal customs officials announced a recent seizure of drums holding about 520 pounds of a powdered chemical used to make meth at LAX. The shipment of methylamine hydrochloride was found at a cargo facility last month. more ›

A couple driving through Arcadia was arrested yesterday after they were seen tossing bags of meth out their car window, reports the Pasadena Star-News. Christopher Meza, 22, and Laura Pienda, 21 were pulled over near 5th Avenue and Genoa Street after an officer heard "loud fighting" coming from the car. With two children, ages one and two, in the car with them, the pair then proceeded to throw the baggies out the window in view of the cop. more ›

Authorities raiding a suspected meth house in Loma Linda on Tuesday found something unexpected: dozens of tombstones ripped from the graves of a nearby cemetery. The granite tombstones, which had custom inscriptions, were stolen from Montecito Cemetery in Colton. more ›

Your television, a couch, or some concert tickets are smart things to put up ads for on Craigslist. Crystal meth, not so much, even when you disguise your product using its ladylike nickname. Two SoCal men were busted recently "on suspicion of dealing large amounts of crystal methamphetamine and possession of drug paraphernalia," reports Temecula Patch. more ›