"I think as long as these folks are up here, we still have concerns"

About a dozen members of a San Diego street gang have moved north to a luxury apartment complex next to Cal State San Marcos and are dealing drugs to its students, it was reported today. via KFMB-TV San Diego

"Stop. Stop please. Stop, they're police."

A judge on Wednesday gave a 54-year prison term to a cashiered army lieutenant colonel who was convicted of ordering the massacre of 10 elite anti-drug police in an ambush on a lonely country road.

Judge Edmundo Lopez also slapped near-maximum sentences of 52 years on the unit's second-in-command, and 50 years each on the other 13 soldiers convicted of participating in the May 22, 2006 slaughter.

A motive was not determined in the case though senior police officials told The Associated Press they believe former Lt. Col. Byron Carvajal and his troops had been protecting a drug lord. Read more

"I was stunned at first ... I was angry. I was actually mortified. "After I got over the shock, I was just absolutely furious, angry, that her and Mercedes got me to carry this parcel."

JODIE Power's mother has told a Sydney jury of her fury at being used by her daughter and Mercedes Corby to deliver a package of marijuana. via NEWS.com.au

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Actor Gary Dourdan, best known as a forensics investigator on the hit TV show "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation," was charged on Wednesday with possession of heroin, cocaine and ecstasy.

The charges stem from the 41-year-actor's April 28 arrest in the desert resort city of Palm Springs, after police found him asleep in the driver's seat of a car shortly before dawn.

The car was parked on the wrong side of the road with the interior light left on. Police said Dourdan appeared disoriented and "possibly under the influence of alcohol and/or drugs" when approached by an officer. Read more

"As a parent I would want my son or daughter to attend a university committed to providing the safest possible environment."

Undercover agents who posed as college students to bust more than 100 suspected drug dealers at San Diego State University never had to crack a book to gain acceptance on campus. All it took was cash.

The federal agents went to one or two parties but never actually went to class or lived in the dorms. Instead, they merely arranged meetings with suspected dealers and asked about buying cocaine, Ecstasy, methamphetamine, marijuana and other drugs, authorities said Wednesday.

'All it took was saying, `Hey, I go to State, can you hook me up?'' said San Diego County prosecutor Damon Mosler. 'And then it was off to the races.' Read more