U. S. border agents arrested an 83-year-old U. S. citizen on Thursday as she entered California across the Mexican border on drug charges. Officials report that she is being held for suspicion of smuggling 10 pounds of methamphetamine found strapped to her body. The woman, a retiree, along with two Mexican nationals were stopped in their car at a U. S. border crossing in San Ysidro, California, just north of Tijuana, Mexico.

A Chicago man on trial for drug charges said sorry for spreading his feces around the courtroom. He had been found guilty previously with the importation of a controlled substance, cocaine, and two other charges. Vandale Amos Willis, 28, was sentenced to more than 10 years in prison.

Anti-drug campaigners attacked the makers of a high-energy soft drink who named their product cocaine. The drink is being billed as a "legal alternative" to the class A drug, using a massive hit of caffeine instead of cocaine. The drink's inventor, Jamie Kirby, who claims the title is "a bit of fun" tells the Daily Mail, "It's an energy drink, and it's a fun name. As soon as people look at the can, they smile. "

A driver, panicked to be stopped at a police DUI checkpoint, fed a puppy his crack cocaine. However, police got wise to the situation, and according to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Dr. Steven Smolen, a veterinarian at the Veterinary Emergency Clinic in Shaler, who was on duty when the puppy was brought in, said the puppy is "doing very well. "

A truck that overturned during a traffic accident on Colombia's San Andreas island had more than $40 million worth of cocaine hidden in its cargo hold. Police thought they were responding to a simple traffic accident, but they found more than a ton of cocaine wrapped in plastic bags.