Drug dealers looking to bring their wares into the Big Apple have apparently discovered what most New Yorkers already knew: Chinatown buses are the best deal in town. Since last August the (apparently well-named) Golden Horse Tours bus company has been involved in multiple impressively large drug busts, the city's Office of the Special Narcotics Prosecutor says. Naturally, an investigation into the company is now ongoing. more ›

Yesterday New Jersey issued its first permit to a facility that allows the cultivation of medicial marijuana in a town also known as "Park Slope West." The Greenleaf Compassion Center in Montclair will be allow to grow the plant, but not sell it, as an additional permit is necessary pending another state inspection. "The patients we work with and represent are ecstatic," New Jersey's director of the Drug Policy Alliance, Roseanne Scotti says in a release. "They have waited so long for safe and legal access to medical marijuana and this gives them hope that that wait is coming to an end and relief is in sight.” more ›

Sometimes it's just not enough to own the Scarface Deluxe Gift Set and hang the poster in your bathroom. On Thursday, police executed a search warrant at a Bensonhurst home and recovered cocaine, marijuana, prescription medication, along with eight guns and 600 rounds of ammunition. Behold, a giant stash of guns and drugs. more ›

And after two years, we've got ourselves another solid daycare/drug den story. Yesterday the DEA recovered 122,000 illegal pills including Ecstasy, Percocet, Viagra and Xanax from four locations in the Bronx as part of a drugs-through-the-mail scheme. And, oh yeah, one of those locations was a home that also served as a day care center. After all, an important life lesson for tots is knowing your E from your Xanax. more ›

Jason Itzler has been calling himself "The King Of All Pimps" for years and years, flaunting his experience at having employed the city's #1 hooker as well as Ashley Dupre, aka Governor Spitzer's hooker Kristen (they apparently were "amazing" together). Lately, he's been at the George Motchan Detention Center in East Elmhurst, Queens, awaiting his trial to face prostitution and drug charges for an incident at the Trump International last year. But don't worry—Itzler is going to milk his court time for all it's worth! more ›

When will 2nd Amendment aficionados learn that piece of mind costs $2.25? more ›

Two city teachers were arrested Friday evening for DWI after police noticed one of them vomiting on the side of the road. more ›

Some people aspire to be like Jeremy Lin, while others aspire to be Henry Earl—and it seems Herman Wayne decidedly falls into the latter category. The 55-year-old Washington Square Park mainstay was arrested last weekend for the 81st time. He makes 74-time arrestee Johnny Morgan look like a real Padawan. more ›

The Daily News continues its war on fake pot today. After running a front page story scare story that "EVERY PARENT SHOULD READ" (they shouldn't) the paper happily crowed that Councilman Peter Vallone now wants to ban the stuff in the city ("I guess we all assumed that the federal government was going to act on it, but we can’t wait because our kids are dying," he told them). And today they run an interview with a woman who says her son died after smoking the legal product. She also thinks that Senator Rand Paul has "blood on his hands" because he isn't rushing to ban the stuff on a federal level. more ›

Oh, New York, never change. In a very Brooklyn feel-good story a school teacher on her lunch break used her CPR skills to help save a woman suspected of overdosing on drugs—only to be thanked with the woman's middle finger. more ›

The FBI has indicted 20 alleged heroin dealers who flooded Queens and Long Island with over 20 kilograms of junk over the course of the nine-month joint investigation, which was dubbed "Operation County Connection." In an early-morning raid, federal agents swooped in and made arrests at homes in Nassau and Suffolk Counties, as well as in Brooklyn and Queens. The distribution ring, which slung smack to a mostly suburban clientele, was allegedly run by 26-year-old Jose Perez, whom feds say imported the horse from the Dominican Republic and Mexico, then distributed from his headquarters in Woodhaven, Queens. And Perez had an eclectic cast of characters helping him, according to the indictment. more ›

NYPD Officer Richard Haste fatally shot unarmed 18-year-old Ramarley Graham last month in his family's Williamsbridge home, and his colleague tells the Daily News that while he feels remorse, he also thought Graham was armed. "He didn't want the kid to die. He feels bad. But it happened very fast," the colleague said. "He thought he was carrying, that's why he did what he did. He had a split second to react." more ›

A woman claiming to be three months pregnant was found to be stashing $20,000 worth of heroin. According to the Daily News, 42-year-old Nigerian national Afolake Awoyemi arrived at JFK last Wednesday from Paris and told Customs officials that the bulge in her "groin area" could be attributed to the miracle of life, but during a partial strip search, the heroin began falling out. Has no one told Customs what happens what a man and a woman love each other very, very much? more ›

He bragged about it in 2009 but it turns out he wasn't kidding: David Cross did cocaine in the same room as President Obama during the White House Correspondents' Dinner. "It wasn’t even that much cocaine. It was literally the size of, I don’t know, a tick," Cross tells Playboy this month. Yes, but how much of that cocaine made its way across the room and up into the president's nose? more ›

A well-financed criminal organization has been using a Dassault Falcon executive jet to cater to discerning marijuana connoisseurs who cannot tolerate reefer that's grown dry and impotent during a long truck ride from the West Coast. The operation is allegedly run by the formerly powerful gang the "Westies," and don't let their cutesy name fool you; these guys mean business. Just look into the eyes of John Bokun, the alleged kingpin. If he doesn't creep you out, the guns on his buddy should. Whatever you do, don't make fun of his watch. more ›

Perhaps it should come to no surprise that a guy who paid for (a lot of) sex is cool with legalizing harmless flora, but Eliot Spitzer did used to be the Governor of New York and all. After some gentle ribbing by host Bill Maher (who is no stranger to smoking dope and copulating with prostitutes) Spitzer says, "To spend prosecutorial resources on pot is ridiculous...I'd be in favor of legalized pot. Legalizing pot is the right way to go." more ›

In a 13-minute interview with their attorney, the parents of Ramarley Graham, the unarmed 18-year-old who was shot and killed in his Bronx home by an NYPD officer say they want justice for their slain son."I want the person or the persons that is responsible for taking my son away from me, taking our son way from us, to be held responsible and brought to justice to the full extent," Franclot Graham says. "As far as I'm concerned, a criminal is a criminal…I don't care if you wear a uniform or baggy pants, a hoodie, you are wrong." more ›

A rapper who was indicted on drug charges in 2010 and accused of running violent drug gang out of the Gowanus Projects has now been indicted for a murder he tweeted about getting away with. Ronald Herron, a.k.a. Ra Diggs, a.k.a. "The Big Homie," was indicted for three murders, including one that prosecutors say he bragged about on Twitter. Herron's tweets include claims that he once had someone "shot from a hospital bed" and that his team of "niggas will kill for meee." Authorities also say he boasted online about how he "beat a body," allegedly referring to the murder of one Frederick Brooks. "His Tweets were premature," Police Commissioner Ray Kelly said today. more ›

Spending your lunchbreak in Midtown with a prostitute just got a little harder: the Elk Hotel, one of the last pay-by-the-hour flophouses that used to be so prevalent around Times Square, has bedded its last strung-out pilgrim. Jeremiah's Vanishing New York acted on a tip and called to confirm: "We're closed. No more hotel no more. For good." We asked the man who answered the phone at the Elk what would replace it. "No idea, no clue. Have a nice day." more ›

Commissioner Ray Kelly clarified yesterday that contrary to earlier reports, no struggle occurred between 18-year-old Ramarley Graham and the officer who fatally shot him in the bathroom of his Bronx home on Thursday. The Post reports that the two officers involved have been stripped of their weapons and assigned to desk duty, and the case will be presented to a grand jury to determine whether a crime was committed. "We're still evaluating the actions here," Kelly said. "We see an unarmed person being shot. That always concerns us." more ›

Suffolk County police pulled a man who had been swerving on County Road 19 in Holbrook on Thursday night—and found that he seemed "confused" and couldn't locate paperwork. And then the driver admitted he had been swerving so he could blow into his ignition interlock device. more ›

Sending drugs through the mail, not the best long-term drug smuggling method! A week after 35 pounds of coke was delivered (presumably mistakenly) to the United Nations, the DEA has started coming down on an allegedly mob-connected smuggling ring that used doormen in posh buildings to sign for their illicit deliveries. "It’s still an ongoing investigation—we’re still looking into it," a DEA agent told the Post. more ›

A Bronx mom has been charged after her six-year-old son was given an accidental, lethal dose of methadone—which had been stored in a cold medicine bottle. Raquel DeLeon, 36, was charged Thursday with reckless endangerment in the death of Carlos Rios Jr. DeLeon, who has two prior drug arrests, told police she has a prescription for methadone, but it is unclear why she was storing it in the DayQuil bottle. "As soon as he got sick, he was dizzy, he got in a coma and he died," the boy's maternal grandmother, Letty Muentes, told CBS. more ›

The Brooklyn South narcotics detective who was convicted of planting drugs on a woman and her boyfriend was sentenced to five years’ probation and 300 hours of community service. Former cop Jason Arbeeny, a 14-year NYPD veteran, was previously found guilty of eight counts of falsifying records and official misconduct for planting drugs on innocent suspects—a crime he claimed he did in order to reach quotas. Arbeeny broke down in tears at his sentencing today: "I can't look at myself in the mirror anymore," Arbeeny told Brooklyn Supreme Court Justice Gustin Reichbach. “Sir, I am begging you, please don't send me to jail." more ›

Sugar has been taking some lumps in the media lately, and now some people are even going so far as to suggest that it be regarded as controlled substance and be subject to governmental regulations similar to those of alcohol and tobacco! more ›

The NYPD made more than 50,680 arrests for low-level marijuana offenses in 2011, once again making low-level pot possession the number one cause of arrest in NYC. 2011 was the second-highest period for marijuana arrests in New York City history, and this despite NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly specifically ordering officers to stop arresting people who bring small quantities of marijuana into open view during a stop-and-frisk. In a September memo, Kelly told officers, "A crime will not be charged to an individual who is requested or compelled to engage in the behavior that results in the public display of marijuana." Unfortunately, most hippies were too stoned to read all the way the bottom of the memo, where Kelly included a photo of himself winking slyly. more ›

Talk about the wrong address! Some silly Mexican drug traffickers recently lost 35.5 pounds of cocaine when they accidentally sent it to the United Nations. You can not make this stuff up. Also, that's a lot of blow. more ›