There are 3 article(s) tagged drug trafficking:

• February 2025

  • Former Memphis woman named Trump’s ‘pardon czar’

    Former Memphian Alice Marie Johnson, who spent 21 years in prison for drug trafficking before being released in 2018, has been named the new presidential administration’s “pardon czar.”

    By Jody Callahan February 21, 2025

• June 2022

  • $500K in cocaine seized in I-40 traffic stop

    The cocaine, hidden in a speaker box in the back of the vehicle, was found during a traffic stop on Interstate 40 near the Shelby and Fayette County line.

    By Julia Baker June 01, 2022

• August 2021

  • 40 indicted in North Memphis drug trafficking ring

    Authorities said 40 people have been indicted on drug trafficking charges for distributing drugs from three abandoned houses in a North Memphis neighborhood. 

    By Yolanda Jones August 11, 2021