Criminology and Psychology

600 cannabis plants with a street value upwards of £500,000 were discovered after police raided the property on Yarm Lane.Officers from Stockton Drugs Unit and Stockton Neighbourhood Support Team swooped on the premises as part of an intelligence-led operation.Landlord Shakil Hussain, 32, said he had been renting out the flat - which is above a separate shop unit - to a tenant he believed was from the Far East.He said: “I was shocked to find this going on after police told me about the raid. I had no idea.“The flat was seriously damaged, I don’t know the full extent because at the moment it is still a crime scene and I haven’t been in yet.“But it will need completely refurbishing. It had been nicely done out, I don’t know how much it will cost me.”Mr Hussain said the shop below was entirely separate from the first and second floor flat rented out above, and was due to reopen as a clothes shop.A Cleveland Police spokesperson said today: “Enquiries are ongoing at the moment to trace the ...

Five men were charged in Malmö on Friday for transporting 19 kilogrammes of heroin, half of which was confiscated in Serbia.The heroin taken in Serbia was being transported to Sweden by automobile. The rest was found by police during a raid at a bus garage in Norrköping in central Sweden.According to prosecutor Kristina Ehrenborg Staffas, most of the drug was headed for the Nordic market.

Canadian authorities seized over 9 million contraband cigarettes and arrested 46 people, including some North Country residents during a smuggling crackdown in the Cornwall area.According to officials, over 5,000 pounds of tobacco, 9.7 million cigarettes, and 50 cartons of flavored cigars were confiscated, along with 43 vehicles seized.Of the 46 people arrested, 8 were listed as Americans. According to the Watertown Daily Times, the as-yet unidentified people include residents of Hogansburg, Akwesasne and Rooseveltown.The 12-day enforcement blitz was coordinated by Royal Canadian Mounted Police with help from Canada Border Services Agency, Cornwall Community Police, Ontario Provincial Police, Quebec Provincial Police and Ontario Ministry of Revenue Special Investigations branch.Authorities said the tobacco was believed to have been manufactured in the United States and then smuggled into Canada.

Bond has been set at $500,000 for a Texas Department of Public Safety trooper charged with possession of 26 kilograms of a controlled substance (cocaine) with intent to distribute.During a Wednesday morning hearing, U.S. Magistrate Felix Recio set bond on 35-year-old Jesus Rafael Larrazolo.Larrazolo was arrested 10 a.m. Saturday in the parking lot of Best Buy as he was loading his car with cocaine, Brownsville police said, adding he had just received the cocaine from another man, who fled the scene.Brownsville police were in the area conducting unrelated surveillance when they observed Larrazolo with suspicious suitcases that carried the cocaine, according to police.During the hearing, Assistant U.S. Attorney James Lancaster asked the court to refuse bond because of reports that Larrazolo's family was raising money to make bond and fears that he would flee and use a new identity in Mexico.Larrazolo worked with the DPS for four years.FBI Agent Melanie Davis took the stand and respon...

Four men have been ordered held without bond on charges they distributed heroin to dozens of young people in the Centreville area.The men are among ten people charged last week in a heroin distribution ring in northern Virginia that police say was responsible for at least three deaths.According to court records, many of the deaths involved current and former students of Westfield High School. Nine people identified in a federal complaint charging them with conspiracy to distribute heroin are all aged 19 to 22.None of the defendants spoke during Tuesday's hearing, and their lawyers declined to comment after the hearing.

Kevin Hiebert serving a life sentence in a Greek prison for drug smuggling is now considered an international fugitive after he vanished last week after nine years in custody, the Winnipeg Free Press has learned.Kevin Hiebert, 35, had been pleading with the Canadian government to intervene in his case and arrange a prison transfer that would allow him to return to home soil. He doesn't deny criminal responsibility, but says he has served enough time for the crime.Hiebert had reportedly grown more desperate in recent weeks after conditions inside the prison deteriorated to the point where inmates began a hunger strike.Kevin Hiebert received a life sentence for smuggling 2 kg of cocaine into Greece. Handout Hiebert's father signed him out of prison for an approved "vacation," which allows well-behaved inmates a temporary supervised release. He didn't return. Hiebert's father, Dick, returned to his home in Texas over the weekend and has told friends he doesn'...

Police have seized 4 kg (9 lbs) of cocaine near Moscow's Domodedovo Airport, the largest local cocaine haul so far this year, a police spokesman said on Monday. Police found the drugs in a Lexus-330 car in which a Chechen man and woman were travelling, along with a Latvian man. The car was stopped for a check on the Domodedovo highway, 43 km south of Moscow"During the search, police found a bag in the trunk containing white powder. Tests identified the powder as cocaine. The total weight of the drugs was 3.7 kg,"