For methamphetamine user Robert Edward De Shields, one side effect of the drug is apparently the strong desire to sexually abuse animals. The Sacramento parolee was sentenced this week to 10 years in state prison for his appalling treatment of an 8-month-old chihuahua. 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 ›

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 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 ›

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 ›

Remember when you were a kid and you learned that teachers were regular people, too? Well, students and faculty at California State University San Bernardino are learning that Stephen J. Kinzey, a 43-year-old kinesiology professor, isn't exactly a regular dude, but he certainly has a life outside of campus. Kinzey is suspected of living a double life as "a heavily armed biker-gang member and drug dealer." 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 ›

A Department of Justice task force arrested two men in Riverside last Friday, July 15, and seized 28 pounds of methamphetamine, worth an estimated $1.27 million. Martin Pinedo Cedillo and Alfonso Gutierrez Ibarra of Mexico were busted while attempting to sell all 28 pounds to an undercover Bureau of Narcotic Enforcement (BNE) agent in Riverside. more ›

Here is a life lesson: if you steal a police badge, don't sell it on Cragslist. I wish no one had to learn that lesson the hard way, but indeed someone may have. KCBS reports that Nathan Hohnstein, 25, and Salah Godfrey, 36 were arrested by police after meeting up with undercover officers who had responded to the ad they posted on the website. more ›

Meth abuse dropped 43 percent between 2005 and 2009 and arrests for the drug were reduced by more than half, according to the County of San Diego's Methamphetamine Task Force. Despite the results, the county once known as the Meth Capital of the World still saw 28 percent of all arrested adults test positive for the drug in 2009 and 138 deaths. Emergency room admissions related to meth use remained unchanged between 2005 and 2009. 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 ›

CVS Pharmacy has agreed to settle with the federal government after admitting it illegally sold a key ingredient to criminals who made methamphetamine, the United States Attorney's Office said today. The company will pay a settlement of $77.6 million. $2.6 million of that represents the profit the company made from selling pseudoephedrine, the rest is a civil penalty, which is the largest ever paid under the Controlled Substances Act. 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 ›

A 5-year veteran of the Los Angeles Police Department was arrested today for selling narcotics, officials have announced. Yoshio Romero, assigned to patrol Southeast Division, became the subject of a U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration investigation in April for selling methamphetamine while off-duty. When the LAPD was informed, an internal administrative investigation was also launched. On Monday the 28-year-old was arrested in Riverside County under a federal arrest warrant. The investigation is ongoing. more ›

Well, if that’s not the reason for us encountering a shortage of a particular cough syrup this week at area drug and grocery stores, then it must be the cold and/or flu season hitting the LA area. (Extra Extra told us on Friday night that the first case of the flu was recently reported in the Valley – so maybe that’s causing the Robitussin run.) more ›

In a stunning jailhouse interview, the Newport Beach Daily Pilot spoke with incarcerated former USC star quarterback Todd Marinovich who hinted that the OC is to blame for his recent relapse that lead to his arrest for possession of needles and meth. His path to this arrest started roughly a month ago, when Marinovich said he first relapsed after nearly a year of sobriety. “Sometimes it just happens. I’ll get into a situation where... more ›

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