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July 3, 2008
Topics navy, boat, military, cocaine, drugs, africa, wales, europe, prince, united, london, head, men and police
The crew of the HMS Iron Duke, the ship Prince William is training on, seized nearly a ton of cocaine Saturday. The HMS Iron Duke stopped a 50-foot speedboat which the Iron Duke's crew spotted hundreds of miles northeast of Barbados. The sighting raised suspicions because it is unusual to see such a small vessel so far out at sea.
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June 24, 2008
Police in Tampa, Fla. have arrested 'God,' for allegedly selling cocaine near a church. Authorities say God Lucky Howard was arrested after trying to sell cocaine to undercover detectives in Tampa. A subsequent search at his home yielded 22 grams of cocaine and a scale.
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May 31, 2008
Topics cocaine, police, houston, mexican, jesus, led, drugs, bus, paper, dogs, water, woman and man
A 61-year-old man was arrested for cross-border drug trafficking after police linked him to a Jesus statue made of cocaine. Bernardino Garcia-Cordova admitted the statue was his after the woman, who was paid $80 to carry two religious statues over the Mexican border, led police to him. She told authorities she did not know the statue was made of drugs and invited them to follow her when she was to drop off the statues at a bus station. That's when they found Garcia-Cordova.
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February 4, 2008
A 62-year-old grandmother was arrested by Broward County deputies after she was caught possessing cocaine stuffed inside her bra during a raid inside her residence in Oakland Park, Fla. Arrested was Henrietta Corvin Daise, and eight others, many of them her grandchildren.
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January 14, 2008
A man posing as a Catholic priest was apprehended at Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport after a routine body check found the man to be carrying 7 lbs of cocaine under his robes. According to Dutch police, they got suspicious of the man whose identity had been withheld when they spotted him in line at a different gate after initially refusing to undergo a routine body check "for religious reasons. "
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