A Warrensburg, Missouri, man was shot and killed by police executing a drug search warrant last Thursday night. Beau Appleton, 57, becomes the 10th person to die in US domestic drug law enforcement operations so far this year. According to local media reports, members of the Warrensburg Police Department’s Special Emergency... Read More »
A police officer in the suburban Dallas community of Richardson, Texas, shot and killed a woman with outstanding drug arrest warrants as she fled from an attempted traffic stop Monday morning. Emily Krumrei, 32, becomes the 9th person to die in US domestic drug law enforcement operations so far this... Read More »
Police in New Mexico shot and killed a man they were trying to arrest on drug charges Monday. Artesia resident Wesley Davis, 35, becomes the 8th person to die in US domestic drug law enforcement operations so far this year. According to KRQE TV, citing police sources, agents with the Pecos... Read More »
An undercover Michigan drug task force officer shot and killed a 17-year-old who pulled a weapon and tried to rob him Tuesday afternoon in Southfield, police said. The as yet unidentified youth becomes the 7th person to die in US domestic drug law enforcement operations so far this year. According... Read More »
Two people are dead and one man is under arrest after a Miami-Dade Police investigation into a possible marijuana grow house Tuesday evening turned into a sustained gun battle. Dell Peter DiGiovanni, 50, and (presumably—see below) Michael DiGiovanni, 28, become the 4th and 5th persons to die in US domestic... Read More »
A pregnant Oklahoma woman who went to a hospital seeking treatment for extreme pain was instead jailed after police found pain pills on her and died in jail shortly thereafter. Jamie Lynn Russell, 33, becomes the third person to die in US domestic drug law enforcement operations so far this... Read More »
One of two men shot by Orlando police inside a home during a drug investigation Wednesday night died Thursday. Karvis Jabbar Gamble, 19, becomes the second person to die in US domestic drug law enforcement activities so far this year. Police told WKMG TV that five people were in the home... Read More »
Three more people have died in drug war-related incidents in recent days, including a Puerto Rican police officer. They are the 40th, 41st, and 42nd persons to die in US domestic drug law enforcement operations so far this year. On Saturday, NYPD officers shot and killed Darius Jennings, 51, in Read More »
A Phoenix-area SWAT team shot and killed one man during a “dynamic entry” (break the door down) drug raid early Thursday morning after the raiders were met with gunfire. The as yet unidentified man becomes the 39th person to die in US domestic drug law enforcement operations so far Read More »
A Mexican government official has told reporters that the CIA and other international security forces are not fighting drug traffickers, but rather they are managing the trade that has claimed 55,000 lives these past six years. Read more at Catholic Online as they ponder how “these evil men [drug lords] escape justice without the complicity of the government and agencies that are charged with bringing them to justice?”
