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(Daily Mail) - A father was shown giving his five-year-old son marijuana on a controversial reality program in a desperate attempt to ease his epilepsy.
The Discovery Channel’s ‘Weed Wars’ follows dad Jason as he seeks the controversial medicine for his son Jayden.
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(Huffington Post) - Sometimes, the breathalyzer test is really more of a formality.
Police in North Carolina say that they were breaking down a DWI checkpoint early Sunday morning when a 21-year-old drunk driver allegedly crashed his vehicle into the mobile test station, the Hickory Daily Record reports.
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(CBS Boston) - A 74-year-old professor who has lectured at Boston schools for two decades has been charged with running a methamphetamine lab.
Irina Kristy, who teaches math at Boston University and Suffolk University, will be arraigned next month for allegedly running a meth lab out of her Somerville home.
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(Huffington Post) - Another day, two more examples of completely inappropriate incidents at fast food establishments.
Moving down the East Coast, Shawn Porter, 32, of Deltona, Fl. got himself arrested after asking for “a blunt and some herbs” at a Burger King drive-through.
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(Huffington Post) - South Carolina police probably wanted to wash their hands with scalding water and lots of soap after a woman surrendered two crack pipes hidden in deep, dark places.
Spartanburg County Sheriff’s deputies pulled over a car on Thursday, because the driver didn’t come to a stop, The Spartanburg Herald-Journal says.
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(CBS Sacramento) - A man accused of endangering his child by allowing him to remain inside a car filled with marijuana smoke denied the allegations and said he never would have allowed his son to be put into a dangerous situation.
The Sacramento Police Department said officers pulled over a vehicle carrying two adults and a child in South Sacramento on Wednesday, finding a car that was allegedly so thick with smoke that officers couldn’t immediately see the two-year-old boy in the back seat.
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(Associated Press By STEVEN PAULSON) - Patrick J. Sullivan Jr., a 68-year-old former Arapahoe County Sheriff, has been arrested under the suspicion that he tried to trade methamphetamine fora sexual encounter with an adult male, according to 9News.
Fox31 reports the ultimate irony that the one-time national Sheriff of the Year now sits in a jail that bears his own name — the “Patrick J. Sullivan, Jr. Detention Facility” held on a $250,000 bond.
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(Daily Mail By LUCY BUCKLAND) - A 2,625ft-long drug-smuggling tunnel discovered running under the Mexican border has been described by police as the ‘most sophisticated ever’.
The tunnel scheme, which links warehouses in San Diego and Tijuana, even has a hydraulic lift to take people and contraband underground.
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(CBS Boston) - An East Boston man with seven previous OUI arrests and a lifetime license suspension is behind bars after being charged for an eight time with driving drunk.
State Police arrested 52-year-old Albert Diaz Wednesday night in front of Chelsea High School after a Trooper witnessed him allegedly committing several driving violations in Revere.
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(Daily Mail By EMMA REYNOLDS) - A school bus carrying a girls’ basketball team crashed into a truck and careered into a wood leaving 20 injured.
Truck driver John Patrick Kravats has been arrested for drunk driving after apparently causing the three-vehicle smash in Chaptico, Maryland.
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