Jailed reggae artist Buju Banton received positive news on Monday after Florida court jurors declared a mistrial in his felony drug case after four days of discussions. Details on the mistrial landed online Monday (September 27) evening. The Florida drug trial of Jamaican reggae artist Buju Banton ended in a mistrial on Monday when jurors
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Turns out, you don’t always have to do the time just because you’ve done the crime. Exhibit A: Paris Hilton, who despite pleading guilty to two drug bust-related misdemeanors this morning, skated away from the courthouse with absolutely no jail time to her increasingly tarnished name. Hilton turned up for the brief hearing at Las
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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama signed into law on Tuesday a bill to reduce the disparity between federal mandatory sentences for convictions for crack cocaine and the powder form of the illegal drug. Obama had no comment as he signed in an Oval Office ceremony open only to news photographers. The sentencing discrepancy has
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International reggae superstar Buju Banton is facing the fight of his life with the revelation that United States drug enforcement agents have recordings of his participation in a cocaine deal. Buju has been arrested on charges of dealing in illegal drugs and could spend more than 20 years in a federal prison in the US
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A former Montgomery County English teacher has been sentenced to six months in jail for distributing cocaine to a student. Attorney William Brennan says his client Theresa Duarte apologized at sentencing Thursday to the Thomas S. Wootton High School community for the embarrassment caused by the crime. Duarte, once called “the coolest woman alive” by
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Two decades after customers clamored to buy cocaine from a teenager named John Cappas, they’re lined up again to buy what he has to sell: Hot dogs. The one-time “drug kingpin,” as the newspapers called him in the late 1980s, this summer became an owner of a hot dog stand called Johnny’s WeeNee Wagon. It’s
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D.C. germophobes may have something worse to worry about than swine flu on their dollar bills — like cocaine. That’s right. According to findings released this week at an American Chemical Society conference, a whopping 95 percent of paper money sampled in the District was contaminated by cocaine. That ranked highest in the nation, along
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It almost seems impossible, but it’s tragically true. Scott Storch squandered $30 million. Not only that, he did it in less than six months. “[It was] unlike anything I’ve ever seen in my entire life,” the producer’s manager, Derek Jackson, told MTV News of his friend of almost two decade’s monumental fall. “Historical! It was
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