Former prohibition honcho Richard Padilla Cramer is accused of selling out to prohibition's outlaws, helping them to discover informants and set up bootlegging deals, according to the Los Angeles Times. Family and colleagues don't believe it.

The joke around Nogales, Arizona is that most people work for the government or the mafias, says the LA Times. Or for both of them, a situation that prohibition's large flows of underground cash has made common. But a case brought against a former top Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) official, which investigators have predicted will widen to implicate more US agents, has upped the ante.

In a sign of prohibition's failure even inside Britain's prisons, a prison officer who smuggled drugs into a maximum security prison has been jailed for seven years, according to the BBC News.

Prohibition's failure was demonstrated in Country Squire Lakes early Thursday morning, when county prohibition agents conducting an investigation discovered an illicit methamphetamine lab, according to WCSI Local News. Authorities believe the lab indicates widespread use of meth in Jennings County, despite decades of enforcement efforts attempting to root out the drug.

BISSAU, Guinea-Bissau, Nov. 16 -- The failed West African state of Guinea-Bissau, the world's fifth-poorest nation, is in the grip of Colombian drug cartels and others defying global drug prohibition in order to reap the vast criminal profits prohibition makes available by funneling cocaine to Europe, according to a special report published by UPI.

U.N. officials recently warned the Security Council that the country's fragile political stability, shaken earlier this year by the assassination of its president and several other leading figures, is being threatened by trafficking and organized crime fueled by the combination of drug prohibition and the robust demand for drugs which has continued despite the passage of prohibition laws.

Prohibition's failure was demonstrated in South Buffalo this week, The Buffalo News reported. Despite nearly a century of drug prohibition, a car dealership near Southside Elementary School and a West Side barber shop were among several sites used to sell cocaine mailed to Buffalo from Puerto Rico, according to authorities.

Prohibition agents arrested some 28 individuals involved in the purchase and distribution of cocaine as well as stolen prescription drugs like Percocet, Valium and Lortab throughout Buffalo and the suburbs, bringing 213 indictments, according to the News.

News reader William Aiken has seen it all before. "Buffalo seems to be addicted to these long, large scale investigations that don't appear to have any impact on the black market or the availability of drugs. This story has become so common, it's almost not newsworthy," he told Drug War Chronicle.

BUFFALO, N.Y. - Buffalo prohibition enforcement agents led by Lieutenant Paul R. Delano Jr. executed a search warrant late Monday night in the city's Riverside section, arresting a resident of a home on Laird St, according to WIVB News.

The resident is charged with felony prohibition violations, as well as criminal possession of a stolen handgun. Agents also seized a shotgun and rifle. According to WIVB, agents seized over 4.5 ounces of powder cocaine.

Before prohibition was enacted, such a quantity would have had only minimal value. But because of the risks involved in drug trafficking -- arrest and incarceration, if rival dealers don't kill you first -- the small amount of powder draws an estimated $16,000 on the street, according to police. Police also found $58,000 cash.

SANDUSKY, Mich. — A U.S. prohibition agent piloting a Black Hawk helicopter interrupted a million-dollar drug deal at a remote Michigan airport, according to the Associated Press, leading to the arrest of two Canadians who remained jailed Monday. Another bootlegger escaped in a Cessna airplane. The two Canadians, aged 32 and 20, met the pilot on the runway of the Sandusky airport and loaded the contraband -- 45 kilograms of marijuana and 500,000 ecstasy tablets worth $1 million to $2 million -- into a Toyota SUV, according the DEA and AP.

Authorities said it was T.J. Emerick who spotted the suspicious aircraft while flying the Black Hawk. Emerick used a spotlight to keep track of the SUV, according to the AP. The drug plane was just 150 meters above the ground at times.

"It's really frightening that a plane was flying so close to the ground," commented David Borden, executive director of StoptheDrugWar.org, to the Drug War Chronicle newsletter. "But the bootleggers weren't flying so low because they were on drugs," Borden continued. "They were flying that way because we have prohibition laws that could put them away for a long time, and they were trying not to get spotted. It would have been safer if those drugs had been transported legally by truck or train or a licensed aircraft, through a licensed distributor."

United States Prohibition Attorney Karen L. Loeffler announced today, November 9, 2009, that Eulogio Seludo, a resident of Ketchikan, Alaska, was sentenced in federal court in Anchorage to 63 months for his convictions for violating federal prohibition laws. Seludo was convicted of methamphetamine trafficking in Ketchikan, according to KTVA news. Chief United States District Court Judge Ralph R. Beistline imposed the sentence on Seludo, age 54.

Numerous reports by Alaska state police indicate that methamphetamine continues to be widely available in the area since Seludo's 2008 arrest.

Jackson County (Alabama) law enforcement continues to devote the lion's share of its resources to ineffective prohibition enforcement efforts, if recent felony pleas entered in Circuit are a reflection.

"Although our manufacturing of methamphetamine cases are still way down over what we saw several years ago, the use of methamphetamine and other illegal drugs is still a major challenge for law enforcement," District Attorney Charlie Rhodes told the Daily Sentinel. Rhodes did not indicate whether meth trafficking, or trafficking or manufacture in other drugs, had risen to make up the difference.

A compilation of felony pleas published by the Sentinel in the courts of Circuit Judges Jenifer C. Holt and John H. Graham include 24 cases involving violations of the state's drug prohibition laws, and 10 non-drug cases. Sentences handed down for drug possession ranged from two years to 15 years, and from 10 to 20 years for manufacturing, suggesting the state will be shelling out massive resources on the cases for decades to come.

Eight decades ago, Chicago-area criminal and capitalist Al Capone took advantage of the opportunity provided by alcohol prohibition to get rich.

Prison staff and investigators in Melbourne over the past two weeks have charged three people with prohibition law violations for smuggling prescription drugs into Melbourne's remand centre, acc

Big Brother 9 winner Adam Jasinski is facing up to 20 years behind bars and up to $1 million in fines for allegedly attempting to sell 2,000 oxycodone pills to an undercover government witness, acc

An article in the Asheville, North Carolina, newspaper the Citizen-Times reported on a 20-year prison sentence handed down to an Asheville woman recently for selling prescription painkillers.

Oak Ridge, Tennessee, prohibition agents arrested 25 alleged drug dealers, and a grand jury returned 80 indictments against 49 people in total, following a nearly year-long undercover operation, ac

An article in The Oregonian newspaper reported that a pair of drivers were caught transporting 51 pounds of marijuana, after being stopped for traveling 84 mph in a 65-mph speed zone on I-