Fresno Cops Kill Armed Man Fleeing Meth Bust
Undercover Fresno, California, narcotic officers shot and killed a man in nearby Sanger Thursday after he first displayed a weapon, then attempted to run away in a drug bust gone bad. Noel Torres, 22,...
View ArticleDEA Agent Kills Man in Cartel Murder-for-Hire Sting
An unnamed DEA agent in Laredo, Texas, Saturday shot and killed one of four men he and other agents were trying to arrest as they wrapped up an undercover operation in which DEA agents posed as Mexican...
View ArticleJacksonville Police Kill Armed Man in Drug Raid
[image:1 align:left]A Jacksonville, Florida, narcotics detective shot and killed an armed man during a drug raid aimed at arresting a small-scale crack dealer last Thursday. Juan Montrice Lawrence, 40,...
View ArticleSouth Carolina Man Dies in Custody of Narcotics Officers
A 46-year-old South Carolina man died in police custody last Tuesday after being arrested for selling cocaine. Rodney Andrew Haymon of Westminster becomes the 26th person to die in US domestic drug law...
View ArticleNYPD Police Officer Indicted in Ramarley Graham Killing
[image:1 align:left caption:true]A New York City police officer has been indicted on manslaughter charges in the Bronx shooting death of 18-year-old Ramarley Graham. Graham, a young black man, was shot...
View ArticleNarc Scandal Front and Center in Florida Sheriff Race [FEATURE]
Scandal has been brewing in the Pinellas County, Florida, Sheriff's Office over the possibly criminal misbehavior of some of its narcotics detectives, and Sheriff Bob Gualtieri, a Republican, has been...
View ArticleIowa City Man Killed in Undercover Drug Operation
[image:1 align:left]Members of the Johnson County Drug Task Force conducting an undercover operation at a run-down trailer park just outside the Iowa City city limits shot and killed one man and...
View ArticleAlabama Narcs Kill One, Wound One
Undercover narcotics officers with the Hueytown Police shot and killed one man and wounded another in nearby Brighton last Wednesday afternoon. Calvin Robinson, 21, becomes the 44th person to die in US...
View ArticleTwo More Drug War Deaths Last Week
A Louisville, Kentucky, woman was killed in a high-speed chase as police pursued a drug suspect last Tuesday and a St. Paul, Minnesota, man was shot and killed by police officers trying to arrest him...
View ArticleOhio Cop Kills One in Undercover Bust Gone Bad
Cincinnati Police undercover officers shot and killed one man and wounded another during a drug buy gone bad Wednesday night. Montez Oneal, 19, becomes the 59th person to die in US domestic drug law...
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Who Was Killed in America's Drug War Last Year? [FEATURE]
For the past two years, Drug War Chronicle has been tracking all the US deaths directly attributable to domestic drug law enforcement, including the border. You can view the 2011 deaths here and the...
View ArticleFirst Drug War Death of the Year
[Editor's Note: For the past two years, we have been tracking all reported deaths directly attributable to drug law enforcement activity in the US, including the border. We continue to do so this year....
View ArticleLook Out, New York, It's Credico For Mayor! [FEATURE]
New York City has earned itself the sobriquet of Marijuana Arrest Capital of the World, with tens of thousands of minor pot possession arrests every year -- mostly of young men of color -- generated in...
View ArticlePolice Kill Oklahoma City Man in Convenience Store Drug Deal
An undercover police officer shot and killed an Oklahoma City man while attempting to arrest him after observing a suspected drug deal Friday. Marcus Dewayne Patterson, 35, becomes the sixth person to...
View ArticleUndercover Narc Kills Armed Michigan Teen
An undercover Michigan drug task force officer shot and killed a 17-year-old who pulled a weapon and tried to rob him Tuesday afternoon in Southfield, police said. Austin Ryan Thomas becomes the 7th...
View ArticleOne Dead After Charlotte Police Stage Drug Sting on Elementary School Grounds
An undercover drug sting in the parking lot of a Charlotte, North Carolina, elementary school ended up with one person killed and one person wounded, and a community wondering why police chose that...
View ArticleThis Week's Corrupt Cops Stories
Thuggery in Philly, protecting drug shipments in Houston and Detroit, sticky fingers in Los Angeles, and that's not all. Let's get to it:[image:1 align:right]In Philadelphia, five undercover narcotics...
View ArticleNew Hampshire Cops Kill Man Fleeing Drug Sting
An undercover drug bust in a Weare, New Hampshire, shopping mall Wednesday night ended with the target of the bust shot to death as he attempted to flee. The as yet unidentified victim is the 25th...
View ArticleDEA Must Pay $3 Million in 2010 Killing of LA Teen
A federal judge Tuesday awarded $3 million to the family of an 18-year-old Los Angeles honors student who was gunned down by undercover DEA agents in a parking garage in 2010. But the judge also ruled...
View ArticleCalifornia Cops Gun Down Unarmed Meth Dealer
Undercover police in Sunnyvale, California, shot and killed an unarmed alleged methamphetamine dealer last Wednesday afternoon. Juan Ruelas, 34, becomes the 27th person to die in US domestic drug law...
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