| Police: Officer's shooting 'ambush'
A Clark County judge set bail for Matthew Ryan Hastings at $500,000 Friday after police said he lured them into a harrowing ambush that left one officer seriously wounded. Hastings, 28, faces four counts of first-degree attempted murder and first-degree unlawful possession of a firearm after a 20-hour standoff with police earlier this week. Superior Court Judge Robert L. Harris set bail after rejecting Deputy Prosecuting Attorney Scott Jackson's request for $2 million bail. Formal charges will likely be filed Monday or Tuesday. Hastings faces other outstanding charges, including parole violations, theft, jumping bail and possession of meth. The four first-degree attempted-murder counts involve the shooting of Vancouver police Cpl. Christopher LeBlanc, who was wounded as he entered the house with three other officers.
Amy Winehouse and hubby enter rehab
Troubled British R&B soul singer Amy Winehouse, famous for her hit single Rehab has checked into an undisclosed a drug rehabilitation center in the United States, The Mirror in the United Kingdom reported Tuesday. The 1950s-beehive coiffed Winehouse, 23, and her husband, Blake Fielder-Civil, 25, who married in Miami in May, both checked in a facility to deal with their addiction problems, the paper reported. The decision came after their respective fathers nearly came to blows over the couple's purported cocaine and heroin addictions. In the lyrics of her hit song, Winehouse sings about a woman's refusal to enter rehab. It's often been perceived that the song is autobiographical: They tried to make me go to rehab I said no, no, no Yes I've been black but when I come back you'll know, know, know I ain't got the time And if my daddy thinks I'm fine Just try to make me go to rehab I won't go, go, go The paper said it broke Amy's heart to see her parents and in-laws fighting, The Mirror reported.
‘Doctor Shopping’ is Now a Felony for Tenncare Patients
Until now there was no easy way to stop people who went to numerous doctors faking illness and pain to get prescription narcotics. It wasn't even illegal.Now a new state law makes so-called "doctor shopping" a crime, but only for TennCare patients."We were getting calls from doctors saying this was happening, and we would say, 'Sorry, there's nothing we can do,' " said state Inspector General Deborah Faulkner.TennCare could prosecute people for selling drugs, but the new law makes it a crime for patients to deceive different medical providers in order to get a prescription for a controlled substance without disclosing that they have been given a similar prescription within the past month.Controlled substances are drugs that have the potential for abuse or addiction, such as pain relievers OxyContin and Lortab.In addition to the health risks, TennCare patients who doctor shop have frequent medical exams and are sometimes prescribed a lot of unnecessary medications, all of which is paid for by Tennessee taxpayers.Doctor shopping now carries a penalty of one to six years in jail, depending on a person's prior record, said state Rep.
Meth and crime
MANATEE - With crystal methamphetamine use increasing in surrounding counties, local authorities say it could only be a matter of time before the drug scourge surfaces in Manatee. "You never can predict the future, but none of us in law enforcement are naive to the idea that it's here," said Manatee County Sheriff Brad Steube. "We just haven't had the opportunity to run into it." The sheriff's office has had several cases of sale and possession of methamphetamine, but so far the amounts have been limited, Steube said. Detective Richard Murray says the sheriff's office is "lucky if we make one (meth-related) arrest every two or three months." But, he does remember a slightly larger scale meth case that he handled two years ago. "I was doing a controlled buy, and we purchased 14 ounces of it for $14,000," he said.
Doherty In Last Chance Saloon Over Drugs
Singer Pete Doherty could be jailed for drug offences when he appears in court today. The star has pleaded guilty to possessing quantities of crack cocaine, heroin, cannabis and ketamine, as well as two driving charges. He narrowly avoided jail at a previous hearing. District judge Davinder Lachlar deferred sentencing him on the condition he went into rehab to tackle his addiction, and did not commit any more offences. Miss Lachlar left Doherty in no doubt that he could go be imprisoned if he failed to take up a place he had been offered on a detox programme. She told him she was considering all sentencing options. Doherty's six offences all related to his arrest on May 5 when his car was stopped by officers in Kensington High Street, London.
Jail closure leads to new problem: Detention Center won't take intoxicated individuals
FARMINGTON — Less than a week after the Farmington City Jail closed, police officers ran into a problem: The San Juan County Detention Center won't take people picked up for public intoxication. "You have to take them to a treatment facility," San Juan County Corrections Administrator Tom Havel said. There's no law against public intoxication in New Mexico or the city of Farmington. While police take most of those detainees to Four Winds Addiction Recovery Center, a few are on a do-not-admit list because of communicable disease or a history of violence. The legal no man's land became a problem earlier this week, Police Chief Jim Runnels said, when an officer was tied up for hours looking for a place to put a detainee. "Luckily, it doesn't happen a whole lot. If it did happen a whole lot, the city might have to get into the protective custody business," Runnels said.
Dutch cocaine 'contaminated with atropine'
Amsterdam - The Trimbos institute of mental health and addiction put out a warning Friday over the use in the Netherlands of cocaine found to have been contaminated. The Trimbos Institute, located in Utrecht in the centre of the Netherlands, is the national knowledge institute for mental health care, addiction care and social work. Trimbos scientists said they had found atropine in the cocaine they researched after reports from all over the country. One user of cocaine sold in the Netherlands had already died. Atropine is a tropane alkaloid extracted from the deadly nightshade, Atropa belladonna, and other plants of the family Solanaceae. It serves as a drug with a wide variety of effects. Being potentially deadly, it derives its name from Atropos, one of the three Fates who, according to Greek mythology, chose how a person was to die.
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