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Drug Dealing

Crime

At Lake Adelle, the Dead, the Missing and Those Left Behind

On the murder at Lake Adelle.

Ryan Krull Riverfront Times Aug 2021 25min Permalink

Fiction

Fiction Pick of the Week: "Jesus's Cheese"

A murdered drug dealer; a neighborhood of colorful personalities.

James McBride O: The Oprah Magazine Jun 2020 15min Permalink

Crime Religion

“My Gang Is Jesus”

Rio de Janeiro drug gangs are embracing evangelical Christianity.

Alex Cuadros Harper's Jan 2020 30min Permalink

Business Crime

The Perfect Dealer

Customer feedback on the New York City coke dealing industry.

Elizabeth Spiers Gawker Jan 2003 10min Permalink

Crime Science Health

The China Connection: How One D.E.A. Agent Cracked a Global Fentanyl Ring

Fentanyl is quickly becoming America’s deadliest drug. But law enforcement couldn’t trace it to its source—until one teenager overdosed in North Dakota.

Alex W. Palmer New York Times Magazine Oct 2019 50min Permalink

Crime

The Trials of White Boy Rick

Was one of Detroit’s most notorious criminals also one of the FBI’s most valuable informants?

Evan Hughes The Atavist Sep 2014 1h15min Permalink

Crime

Death By Instagram (7 Parts)

An investigation into a social media-fueled gang war in Detroit.

The Red Zone is part pharmacy, part killing field and part music studio where gang members peddled drugs, fought rivals and shot rap videos on street corners.

Robert Snell The Detroit News Apr 2018 Permalink

Best Article Crime

The House on the Corner

"The couple tried to make them leave. They complained to the police. When that didn’t work, they tried to build friendships, hoping they could charm the squatters into respecting their property. Sometimes, they hid in their house. For three years, the tension built. Until one sweltering summer night in 2016."

Lane DeGregory Tampa Bay Times Nov 2017 25min Permalink

Best Article Crime World

How America Lost the War on Drugs

An anatomy of a failure.

Benjamin Wallace-Wells Rolling Stone Dec 2007 1h Permalink

Best Article Crime

Queens of the Stoned Age

There are a thousand ways to buy weed in New York City, but the Green Angels devised a novel strategy for standing out: They hired models to be their dealers.

Suketu Mehta GQ Feb 2017 25min Permalink

Best Article Crime

Code of Silence

Two officers discovered rampant corruption and criminal activity at the heart of Chicago’s police department. Then they were punished by their peers. A four-part series.

Jamie Kalven The Intercept Oct 2016 1h20min Permalink

Crime Science

A Criminal Mind

Dr. Joel Dreyer was a respected psychiatrist. Then he took a sudden turn to a life of drug dealing. Medicine might be able to explain why.

Erika Hayasaki California Sunday Sep 2015 20min Permalink

Crime Politics

How A Small-Time Drug Dealer Rescued Dozens During Katrina

When all else failed, he commandeered a bus, and saved his neighbors. Now he’s in prison.

Joel D. Anderson Buzzfeed Jul 2015 20min Permalink

Crime

A Dazzling Priest’s Lurid Fall, to Drug Case Suspect

On the Connecticut priest who dealt methamphetamine from his church and ran a sex ring from his apartment.

N.R. Kleinfield New York Times Feb 2013 10min Permalink

Crime

The Gangster Princess of Beverly Hills

The rise and fall of Lisette Lee, the self-proclaimed “Korean Paris Hilton,” who was busted for drug trafficking.

Sabrina Rubin Erdely Rolling Stone Aug 2012 30min Permalink

The New Dealers

The unlikely people who’ve turned to selling weed in the recession.

Tony D'Souza Mother Jones Dec 2011 Permalink

Business Crime

Heroin.com: Selling Junk Online

How Craigslist dealers do business in New York City.

David Shapiro, Joe Coscarelli Village Voice Apr 2011 15min Permalink

Crime

The One-Man Drug Company

Lenny makes $5,000 a week selling coke. It was easy to get into the business after finishing prep school. Getting out and going legit after his final score is proving much more difficult.

David Amsden New York Apr 2006 25min Permalink

Crime

Too Weird for The Wire

When the Feds sought the death penalty for four African-American drug dealers in Baltimore, the accused found a defense in the unlikeliest of places: the legal theories of white supremacists.

Kevin Carey Washington Monthly May 2008 25min Permalink