Police foil bid to smuggle hashish, drugs into Punjab jail

September 30th, 2009 Suspected LSD ring fugitive arrested in Calif.SAN FRANCISCO — A suspected member of an LSD distribution ring has been arrested in California after nearly four decades on the lam. San Francisco police Lt.

September 16th, 2009 SAfrica police bust drug smuggling syndicateJOHANNESBURG — South African police say they've busted an international drug smuggling syndicate housed in a warehouse with African souvenirs. South Africa's prosecuting authority says three Britons face drug smuggling charges.

August 31st, 2009 AMRITSAR - The Punjab Police arrested five people here Monday and recovered four kilograms of heroin from their possession, officials said. According to a senior official of Punjab Police, the seized contraband is worth Rs.200 million (Rs.20 crore) in the international market.

July 23rd, 2009 PANAJI - Russian teenager Elena Sukhonova, who was killed in Goa in May, was a drug user and fond of making friends, especially with men, according to a report in the case, prepared by the police. The police claim in the report that Elena was "desperately trying to procure drugs".

July 8th, 2009 RAIPUR - A police raid in a jail in this Chhattisgarh city led to recovery marijuana, alcohol and mobile chargers from the prisoners, an official said Wednesday. The police team led by Raipur central jail superintendent K.K.

July 4th, 2009 MOHALI - Punjab police Saturday claimed to have busted an international drug trafficking racket with the arrest of four Nigerian youths here. According to district police chief Jatinder Singh Aulakh, the four - Alexandar, Paul, Alex, Okaio Sabio - were arrested in Sector 70 with 500 grams of heroin worth Rs.50 lakh (Rs.5 million) in the international market.

July 3rd, 2009 CHANDIGARH - Jammu and Kashmir cadre Indian Police Service (IPS) officer Paramdeep Singh Gill Friday took over as the new director general of Punjab Police. The Punjab government amended rules to bring Gill, a 1974-batch officer, on deputation from Jammu and Kashmir.

July 3rd, 2009 CHANDIGARH - P.S. Gill Friday became the new director general of Punjab Police, taking charge from his elder brother and acting police chief R.S.

June 28th, 2009 LUCKNOW - A man was arrested in Varanasi Sunday evening and over 10 kg of cannabis, worth Rs.20 lakh, was recovered from him, the Uttar Pradesh police said. "Acting on a tip-off, we arrested Kedarnath Agarwal and recovered the drugs.

June 22nd, 2009 NOIDA - Eight men and three women were arrested here for smuggling and selling drugs in the national capital region (NCR) and 100 kg hashish worth Rs.20 lakh was recovered from their possession, police said Monday. On Sunday night during a routine check at the Sector-8 checkpost in Noida, the police stumbled upon a car carrying a man in an army soldier's uniform and three women, police said.

June 12th, 2009 LUCKNOW - Three men, involved in bringing contraband drugs from Nepal and supplying them in various parts of India were arrested in Uttar Pradesh's Sultanpur district with hashish worth Rs.25 crore, police said Friday. "The three, who were nabbed late Thursday, said they were to hand over the consignment to their clients in Haryana and Bihar," district police chief R.K.

June 12th, 2009 LUCKNOW - Three men, involved in bringing contraband drugs from Nepal and supplying them in various parts of India, were arrested in Uttar Pradesh's Sultanpur district with hashish worth Rs.25 crore, police said Friday. "The drug was being taken to Haryana from Bihar.

June 9th, 2009 MUMBAI - A Punjab police official, who has won the Arjuna Award as wrestler, was arrested with three accomplices for allegedly carrying banned party drugs worth nearly Rs.20 crore (Rs.200 million), an official said Tuesday. The Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) carried out an operation yielding 25 kg of methamphetamine, worth around Rs.20 crore in the international market, the official said.

June 2nd, 2009 Attempt to smuggle 120 tortoises foiled in PolandWARSAW, Poland — Polish customs at the Ukrainian border Tuesday found 121 Central Asian tortoises, a threatened species, bound so tightly in black tape that their heads could barely squeeze out from their shells. Customs spokeswoman Malgorzata Eisenberger said officers arrested a 34-year-old Ukrainian man allegedly attempting to cross the border with the animals.

May 24th, 2009 PANAJI - A Scottish national has been arrested here for possessing 2.5 kg of hashish, police said Sunday. James Joseph Toner, 44, was arrested by the anti-narcotics police from Chapora, a village adjoining the Anjuna beach, late Saturday evening.