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A man is feared to have died after an overdose of fentanyl-laced heroin, police revealed yesterday. He was among several people who went to hospital because of the substance. A police spokesman said six suspects were arrested over the weekend after r...

The beauty of the character that Michael K. Williams brought to life on The Wire was his extraordinary complexity. Omar Little was a Black man who stalked the streets of Baltimore wearing a swashbuckling duster and carrying a deadly sawed-off shotgun...

A drug trafficker jailed for 18 years has had an appeal for a lighter sentence rejected. Omar Davy, 40, was found guilty of smuggling $765,700 worth of heroin on a flight from Toronto in 2018. Last month he launched an appeal for a lesser senten...

A man who claimed he was kidnapped and forced to smuggle heroin to Bermuda argued his sentence should be reduced because he pleaded not guilty to the offence because of bad legal advice. Omar Davy, 40, was sentenced to 18 years in jail after he was ...

A survey on drug use to “monitor the nature and magnitude of the use and abuse of alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs” is to be carried out. The Department for National Drug Control will run the telephone survey of 1,200 homes from next Monday. Questio...

A Devonshire man was charged in Magistrates’ Court this morning with having heroin with intent to supply. Winston Paynter, 39, was not required to enter a plea as the matter must be heard by the Supreme Court. The offence allegedly took place between...

A drug mule in the biggest heroin importation case tried in Bermuda was jailed yesterday for 30 years. Josef Vlcek was caught trying to smuggle nearly three kilograms of the drug, worth $9.55 million, after he arrived on a flight from London in Septe...

The alleged importer of $9.5 million of heroin was caught after customs officials spotted a bulge and traces of glue in the lining of one of his suitcases, the Supreme Court heard yesterday. Takiyah Simpson, for the Crown, told the court that Josef V...

A Jamaican national who fled the airport during a customs search has been found guilty of smuggling heroin. Omar Davy, 38, was spotted on CCTV taking a package from the back of his pants and stashing it in an already-searched bag when he was briefly ...

A motorcyclist pulled over by police who was carrying drug equipment has been ordered to attend the Drug Treatment Court. Paul Williams, 38, admitted possession of drug equipment found when he was stopped on his bike by police in connection with a se...

A man accused of smuggling $8.5 million of heroin into the island was remanded in custody yesterday to face trial in the Supreme Court. It is alleged Josef Vlcek, 47, from Czechia, also known as the Czech Republic, brought nearly three kilograms of t...

Fentanyl is suspected in two overdoses treated at King Edward VII Memorial Hospital last week, a Bermuda Hospitals Board representative has confirmed. The drug — a synthetic opioid 50 to 100 times more powerful than morphine — is often used to cut ...