Customs officials at Dulles International Airport say a Nigerian woman set an unfortunate record when she tried to smuggle almost five pounds of heroin into the country. Authorities say 52-year-old Bola Adebisi ingested 180 thumb-sized pellets filled with heroin. Officers became suspicious of her Saturday when she was questioned by border patrol officials after arriving on Ethiopian Airlines flight 500 which originated in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia and... 

Clara Espada, 41, pleaded guilty to third-degree bribe receiving — a D-class felony — and misdemeanor forcible touching. A criminal complaint says Espada had sex three times with a male inmate, who has not been named. He told investigators he slept with the officer and helped broker deals that netted the woman nearly $300 a week over four months, court documents show. Espada was arrested Wednesday after an eight-month investigation , the Department... 

A mother was arrested after police received a tip-off she was selling sex with her six-year-old daughter to strangers in return for drugs. The 35-year-old, from Jacksonville Beach, Georgia, was arrested and charged with child neglect after a homeless man told police he had been to the house to use drugs and witnessed the sexual abuse. After interviewing her daughter, who gave them a detailed account of the ongoing sexual and physical abuse in the... 

A woman who claimed she was three months pregnant ‘gave birth’ at JFK Airport in New York – to ‘a stash of heroin’.  Nigerian national Afolake Awoyemi caught the attention of a U.S. Customs and Border Protection inspector as she waddled off an Air France flight from Paris.  The 42-year-old, wearing a loose-fitting garment, was asked if she was pregnant, and she allegedly replied that she was expecting, Homeland Security special... 

A clinically obese woman who is accused of having sex with a teenager claimed she was the victim of rape as she had passed out drunk and woke up to find the boy on top of her. Teri Mezzatesa, 34, from Upper Chichester, who at five-foot-nine weighs 260 pounds, is charged with statutory sexual assault, corruption of minors and other related charges relating to the 15-year-old, who is her son’s friend. It was her own son that turned his mother... 

It could well be the last time this troubled teenager crosses his feisty mum after she decided to serve up some harsh punishment. Frustrated by her wayward son’s criminal ways, she decided to publicly humiliate him. The 14-year-old was forced to stand for two hours on a busy street with a sign reading ‘I lie, I steal, I sell drugs, I don’t follow the law’ around his neck. The youngster has been convicted of numerous offences... 

Grammy-winning reggae star Buju Banton claims in an appeal of his federal drug conviction there was not enough evidence to prove he was involved in a cocaine conspiracy. The appeal filed Friday by attorney David O. Markus also says Banton was relentlessly pursued by a federal informant seeking a $50,000 government payday. Markus says that resulted in improper entrapment. Banton, whose real name is Mark Myrie, is serving a 10-year prison sentence... 

A woman was caught trying to smuggle 1.5 kilograms of cocaine in her dreadlocks on a flight to Bangkok, it was reported today. South African Nobanda Nolubabalo, 23, was arrested and held in Thailand’s capital yesterday after customs officers allegedly noticed a suspicious white substance in her hair. Officials later carried out a search and discovered she had allegedly matted the Class A drug into her dreadlocks before boarding a flight from... 

Tameka Raymond is demanding that her ex-husband, Usher, be tested for drug use it has been claimed. The 40-year-old stylist is reportedly worried that the R&B singer is using illegal substances around her children. According to TMZ.com, Raymond (nee Foster), is ‘freaking out’ because as time passes he has more time to get any drugs out of his system.  She allegedly thinks he’s been popping pills and possibly other, more harmful... 

Former Bad Boy Records rapper Loon was reportedly arrested this month in Belgium on drug trafficking charges. So much for being on his deen. While entering Belgium last Friday, former rapper Loon, now known as Amir Junaid Muhadith was arrested while at a Brussels airport for drug trafficking. Various sources report the arrest stems from an indictment back in May for distributing heroin three years ago in North Carolina. He has now been extradited...