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$3M In Meth Found In Religious Picture Frames During Texas Traffic Stop

Via The Associated Press– A Texas Panhandle traffic stop has yielded $3 million worth of methamphetamine hidden in the frames of religious-themed pictures.

Two people were arrested during the stop near Conway while bound for Georgia.

On Tuesday morning a car was pulled over for a traffic violation on Interstate 40, east of Amarillo.

A car search turned up 27 bundles of methamphetamine, about 35 pounds, inside the structure of several picture frames portraying images of religious figures.

The driver and the passenger, both from Tijuana, Mexico, face felony charges of possession of a controlled substance.

The police believe the meth was being taken from Mexico to Atlanta.

Oregon Militia Spokesman Killed In Shootout With Feds

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Arizona rancher LaVoy Finicum, left, and Ammon Bundy, Militia Leader in Oregon.

By Red Power Media, Staff

Leaders of armed occupation at the Oregon wildlife refuge arrested

One person is dead and 8 people arrested — including militia leaders Ammon and Ryan Bundy — after the FBI and the Oregon State Police moved in on the group along a highway.

The militiamen were driving to a community meeting in John Day – 70 miles from Burns – when they were stopped by police, about 4:25 p.m.

Video: Bundy brothers arrested in traffic stop by FBI, OSP

Within minutes, shots were fired, wounding Ryan Bundy and killing militia spokesman LaVoy Finicum.

It is not clear who opened fire first.

Bundy Ranch, on its Facebook page, said in a post Tuesday evening that Arizona resident Robert “LaVoy” Finicum, author of the novel Only by Blood and Suffering, was shot and killed during…

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PA Man Charged With Murder Of Girlfriend After He Backed Out Of Suicide Pact

A Pennsylvania man has been charged with murder after allegedly injecting his girlfriend with a fatal dose of cocaine as part of a suicide pact, but then pulling out of killing himself after watching her die.

Anthony Michael Noble, 27, of Phoenixville, is also charged with drug delivery resulting in death, tampering with evidence, and related crimes.

His girlfriend, Joette L. Mullen, 27, was found dead in her car on the morning of December 14 near Schuylkill Canal Park in Mont Clare.

She and Noble had made a ‘Rome and Juliet-style’ suicide pact, but that he pulled out after witnessing Mullen have a seizure and die, Philly.com reported.

Montgomery County District Attorney Kevin Steele says the evidence shows Noble purposefully prepared a fatal dose of cocaine and then injected it in Mullen’s arm.

‘This is First Degree Murder similar to a case where somebody takes a gun, loads it, points it at somebody, pulls the trigger and kills them,’ he told Georgia World.

In his first interview with police, Noble said that he and Mullen were using rock and powder cocaine they bought in Philadelphia on December 13.

He said they agreed to do ‘big shots’ and, and passed out after injecting her and himself.

He claimed that he woke to find Mullen unresponsive.

Noble said he tried CPR, but fled when he realized she was dead.

He said he took the drugs and through everything in the river.

He told police that Mullen ‘hated life and didn’t want to be here anymore’.

However police then interviewed one of Noble’s friends, who said the suspect told him about the suicide pact, which he described as ‘Romeo and Juliet-style’.

He said Noble couldn’t go through with the pact after seeing what happened to Mullen.

Noble was then interviewed again by police, and admitted to what happened.

Mullen’s mother, Linda Ward, said her daughter suffered from depression.