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Past As Prologue: A Seattle Police Bootlegging Racket Informs Lessons Of Modern Drug Cartels

By NWPB News April 2, 2021

Seattle Daily Times front page saying Olmsted was Jailed.

Prohibition did not limit the demand of alcohol, and many people did not support it, including the police. On an early morning in March 1920, Seattle Police Lieutenant Roy Olmstead and Sergeant T.J. Clark met a crew of bootleggers loading a shipment of Canadian whiskey from Vancouver, B.C. for Seattle. Olmstead and Clark were not there to arrest the criminals, but to watch Read More

Jury Hears Closing Arguments As Dramatic ‘El Chapo’ Trial Nears Its End

By NPR News January 30, 2019

U.S. law enforcement personnel escort Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán from a plane to a waiting caravan of SUVs at New York's Long Island MacArthur Airport in January 2017. U.S. law enforcement via AP

Prosecutor Andrea Goldbarg said in her closing arguments that Joaquín Guzmán led the Sinaloa drug cartel. Dozens of witnesses said he tortured and killed people and that he bribed officials in Mexico.Read More

Methamphetamine Returns To Roil Rural Towns Again Across The U.S.

By NPR News October 26, 2018

A drug specialist in the Mexican army shows crystal methamphetamine paste seized at a clandestine laboratory in Mexico's Baja California in August. Much of the meth sold in the U.S. today comes from Mexico, according to DEA officials.

Meth is back "with a vengeance," police say. Now made mostly by superlabs in Mexico, it is stronger, cheaper and more prevalent, cutting across demographic barriers and sparking serious crime.Read More