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"The problem with drug-sniffing dogs is not that dogs aren't capable of sniffing out drugs; it's that we've bred into domestic dogs a trait that trumps that ability - a desire to read us and to please us. If a drug dog isn't specifically trained to compensate for this, it will merely read its handler's body language and confirm its handler's suspicions about who is and isn't hiding drugs."

updated 5:57 PM EDT, Thu August 30, 2012 New York (CNN) -- A little grandmother has pleaded guilty for her role in a big New York drug ring. Doris Smith, 71, was arrested in February with 34 other defendants in a drug ring bust in Harlem, according to an indictment from the New York County District Attorney's Office.

Wow, I never heard of a grandmother selling drugs before....

Its crazy what people are capable of.

Daughter of wanted Mexican drug lord caught trying to enter San Diego

"A Habersham County grand jury has decided not to charge any of the law enforcement officers involved in the botched drug raid that disfigured a toddler."

"California approved a major shift against mass incarceration on Tuesday in a vote that could lead to the release of thousands of state prisoners. Nonviolent felonies like shoplifting and drug possession will be downgraded to misdemeanors under the ballot measure, Proposition 47. As many as 10,000 people could be eligible for early release from state prisons, and it's expected that courts will annually dispense around 40,000 fewer felony convictions."

"The government had appealed after a federal judge in July ordered it to return $1.07 million to 35-year-old Tara Mishra, of Rancho Cucamonga, Calif. Mishra said the cash was her life savings earned over years as an exotic dancer. Government lawyers had claimed the money was connected to illegal drugs, but offered no proof."

That's not fair they can just take someone's money away like that. Although it was a large amount, they should have looked into the case other than taking her money, especially if she wasn't under the influence of drugs and nothing was suspicious except the amount.

She's either an amazing exotic dancer or there's some side business but you never know, they shouldn't have taken her money without further evidence and proof.

A 39-year-old York woman has been fined $250 after pleading no contest in a prescription drug case. Jeannie Linder had been charged with intentional violation of a narcotic drug law. That's a felony that carries a maximum prison sentence offive years. On Friday Linder pleaded no contest to attempted acquisition of a controlled substance by fraud.

"Two appeals from criminal defendants could have far-reaching effects on when a person's private holdings can be subjected to intrusion without clear probable cause or a valid search warrant."

Ohio inmate Dennis McGuire appeared to gasp and convulse for roughly 10 minutes before he finally died Thursday during his execution by lethal injection using a new combination of drugs, reporters who witnessed it said.

"In 2010, a team of researchers at the University of California, Davis set out to test the reliability of drug- and bomb-sniffing dogs."

If 85% of the tests are failures, I wonder how many peoples rights have been violated.

(CNN) -- A large group of Baltimore corrections officers and members of a notorious prison gang have been working together to peddle drugs, phones and sex inside the city's jail, prosecutors say. But an indictment released this week is another shot, prosecutors say, at putting an end to it.

New York (CNN) -- Former pharmaceutical executive Gigi Jordan testified Wednesday that she knowingly gave a lethal concoction of drugs to her 8-year-old autistic son. Fighting back tears as she took the stand for the first time in her second-degree murder trial, Jordan admitted that she knowingly gave herself and her son, Jude Mirra, enough drugs to kill them both.

"The former hotel administrator was arrested three months later. The official charge: criminal transmission of HIV -- a class B felony in Iowa, where the encounter occurred. Other crimes in this category include manslaughter, kidnapping, drug crimes and robbery."

I agree with the law and that you need to let people know but they used protection and and they didn't know at the time so Nick shouldn't be in prison. The law says it needs to be intentional but it wasn't intentional.

Nick Rhoades stated that he was protected and that he shouldn't be getting any sort of punishment but I can see that he did a class B felony crime because he did pass it on but for him being protected he wasn't trying to do any harm he doesn't deserve the punishment.

"Gov. Asa Hutchinson originally set out an aggressive schedule of eight lethal injections in 11 days that would have marked the most inmates put to death by a state in such a short period since the U.S. Supreme Court reinstated the death penalty in 1976. The state set such a compressed schedule because its supply of one of the lethal injection drugs expires at the end of April."

SALISBURY - A 30-year-old Salisbury man faces various charges after he allegedly assaulted police officers, one of which had to be treated at Peninsula Regional Medical Center. Quinton Jhonta Hayward faces two counts of second-degree assault, one count of second-degree assault on a law enforcement officer, drug charges, resisting/interfering with arrest and related charges.

Police say 33-year-old David Petr was arrested last week for encouraging teenage boys to trade sexual acts for drugs. Petr has a history of sexual abuse. In 2005, he was convicted of sexually assaulting a minor, but even more startling, he lives directly across the street from Hill Elementary.

if he doesn't stop, get him out of there!

They should think about the kids before him. They could ge seriously abused or hurt, menally and physically.