Drugs

Local law enforcement seeks suspect Jevon Lively in connection with dangerous Fentanyl and Methamphetamine discovery in Lafayette.

A St. Martin Parish man has been arrested after being caught with a number of powerful narcotics, including black tar heroin and suspected fentanyl.

Could Louisiana's rice farmers be on the cusp of a financial windfall thanks to a social media weight loss hack?

A new warning is circling around social media warning Louisianians to not touch or pick up any piece of fruit found sitting on a gas pump. Is this actually a thing or is it the start of new Urban Legend?

Booking records at the Shreveport city jail show that 63-year-old Kenneth Sapp of Arcadia was also found in possession of 30 grams of suspected marijuana, 21 grams of suspected meth, multiple glass pipes, and an unlabeled bottle of pills.

One teenager in Louisiana found out that going viral on social media isn't always a great thing.

When is a rose not a rose? When it's a crack pipe. One listener relates the story of how she received a thoughtful bouquet of drug paraphernalia from her well intentioned boyfriend.

When it comes to certain weight loss drugs, Louisiana has a high rate of patients using one of the most popular drugs out there.

Deputies with the Acadia Parish Sheriff's Department seized 24 pounds of methamphetamines that were being transported in the city of Crowley, Louisiana.

Some shocking news came out this week of an NFL owner being found by police after an apparent drug overdose.

A K-9 officer reported on a truck, and the search revealed a big load of illegal narcotics.

What Parishes consume the most weed? Let's take a look...

A New Iberia man will be spending quite a bit of time behind bars after a joint investigation by the US Drug Enforcement Administration, Department of Homeland Security Investigations, Louisiana State Police, and New Iberia Police say he was transporting drugs and proceeds to and from Lafayette, Louisiana; California; Iowa; and South Carolina.

MONROE, La. (KPEL News) - A Sterlington man convicted of dealing methamphetamine is now set to stay behind bars for nearly a decade following an investigation involving the Federal Bureau of Investigation, US Drug Enforcement Administration, and the ATF...

Narcan saved the lives of two New Orleans-area babies, and their fathers are charged with cruelty in the cases.

SHRVEPORT, La. (KPEL News) - A drug dealer who resides only minutes away from the Louisiana-Texas border will spend the next decade in prison after law enforcement agents with the U.S. Marshals Service’s Fugitive Task Force and Caddo Parish Sheriff’s Office deputies caught him with a large haul of illegal narcotics. 28-...

A Michigan State University instructor has been placed on leave after students discover he was arrested for running a meth lab in Thibodaux, Louisiana back in 2020.

LAFAYETTE, La. (KPEL News) - Methamphetamine on the backseat and marijuana in a backpack landed a man from Ethel, Louisiana, (located in East Feliciana Parish) behind bars last year. Now, a judge has decided that 36-year-old Eric Martin should spend over two decades in jail...

But the good news is that the mangos were able to get to their final destination.

A Houma man is in custody for allegedly trafficking major drugs into Panama City Beach, according to law enforcement officials.