Criminology and Psychology

Alexandru Sabau, 37, was arrested near his apartment in Newport Beach after he arrived for a roadside meeting to allegedly finalize a drug deal with an informant, according to a spokesperson for the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's Los Angeles airport office.A search of the trunk of Sabau's rental car turned up 100,000 ecstasy tablets, which he allegedly took to southern California with the intent of using them as collateral to obtain caches of cocaine for export back to Canada, said Robert Schoch, special agent in charge of ICE's Los Angeles office.Investigators executing a search warrant at Sabau's apartment also found a small amount of cocaine and about $14,000 US in cash.Sabau was charged with conspiracy to distribute a controlled substance and faces up to 20 years in prison if convicted. He was ordered held pending a bail hearing on July 8. Officials say his immigration status is under investigation. It's not known where Sabau lived in Canada.

Fourteen people have been arrested in Bradford during raids targeting the importation of heroin into the UK.Police raided addresses including two at the Yorkshire College site and at money service businesses in the city. Four men and a woman have been charged with importing Class A drugs. A man, 38, has been charged with a proceeds of crime offence. Six people are being held over immigration offences. Two other people have been released on bail.

Police have arrested nine people and seized cannabis, heroin and cocaine valued at more than $2 million in three separate drug busts in NSW in the past 36 hours. More than 500 marijuana plants were seized by NSW Police in another raid on seven houses associated with an alleged hydroponic cannabis syndicate today on the far north coast.Police say today's raid on the seven properties in Cudgera Creek, Burringbar, Terranora, Banora Point and Palmvale were the result of months of planning.They allegedly found cannabis growing in converted underground bunkers at one property, and sophisticated hydroponic equipment worth $100,000 at others.Seven men have been arrested and are being interviewed. Police say they expect to lay charges.Tweed/Byron local area command crime manager Greg Carey said it was believed the cannabis was destined for the streets of Tweeds Head and the Gold Coast."This is another significant win for the NSW Police Force in the war against drugs," Detective In...

Customs officers at Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport have intercepted a machine that makes pellets of cocaine which can be swallowed for smuggling. The machine was found in the luggage of three Bulgarians. The three were caught with fake passports and plane tickets attempting to smuggle the machine onto a flight to the Dominican Republic. The customs officers think the Bulgarians were trying to set up a new smuggling route between the Dominican Republic and the Netherlands. Strict checks on flights from Surinam and the Netherlands Antilles have forced smugglers to try new routes. This is the first time customs officers have intercepted a complete drug pellet machine at the airport.

Riaz Mohammed, used a string of front companies to ship the highly addictive narcotic from Turkey.The Court heard the "sophisticated" operation involved hiding half-kilo packages of the Class A substance in the hollowed out struts of wooden pallets. But despite the gang's best efforts each of the three importations - two to Dover docks and one which arrived at Heathrow airport - were intercepted during an investigation by the Serious Organised Crime Agency (Soca).Altogether 24kg of the drug - with an estimated street value of £2.3 million - was seized. In the dock with Mohammed, 41, of Lancaster Road, Leytonstone, east London (25 years), were his lieutenant Ibrahim Janturk, 52, from Tottenham, north London (22 years), and "footsoldiers" Cetin Albar, 35, who lived in Clapton Common, east London, and Emircan Aytac, 48, of Boyson Road, Walworth, south-east London, who got 16 years each.Mohammed was convicted by a jury of three counts of conspiracy to import heroin ...

Police arrested two African men for possessing and peddling heroin. Dubai Police’s Criminal Investigation Department (CID) received a tip-off that a suspect, identified as A.B., possessed heroin. An undercover police officer offered to buy the heroin for Dh7,000 for every one kilogram. The suspect also showed the officer a sample. Police kept the suspect under surveillance and set up a trap to arrest him. On the day of the narcotics delivery, the two suspects arrived at the location with a bag. During the delivery, the police arrested them and seized 31 plastic bags with heroin, weighing 4.7 kilograms and worth around half a million dirhams. The two suspects were referred to the Pubic Prosecution.

The untouchables, an elite band of Australian Federal Police, some of whom insiders say were no better than "gangsters with police badges". Their headquarters were Redfern's landmark TNT twin towers, where extramarital conquests and drunken "happy hour" parties were common. It was the 1980s and, as one former officer of the 35-strong AFP Sydney drug investigation unit recalls, it was like "living inside a grubby episode of Miami Vice ". Memories of the heady days of the twin tower crew have been revived because of the charges laid against one of the squad's alumni, senior NSW Crime Commission investigator Mark Standen. Following his arrest on drug charges this month,. Michael Anthony Wallace - convicted of stealing $20 million worth of seized heroin in 1990 and then of murdering girlfriend Zoe Zou and dumping her body in the Blue Mountains in 2006 - was one. Another was Allan Gregory McLean, sentenced to 16 years' jail for helping import millio...