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Yahoo
11-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Detroit rapper Sada Baby tells his side of story about drug arrest on podcast
Detroit rapper Sada Baby, who appeared in court on a drug charge this week, gave his side of the story Friday, saying "it was Percocets, 10 of 'em." Sada Baby, whose real name is Casada Sorrell, was a guest on the podcast "Politely Raw with Pacman Jones" on BetOnline in a segment that was just over five minutes long and included conversation about his Macomb County Jail mugshot, with Sorrell saying he made a face because "I wanted to go viral. It went viral." Sorrell, 32, is charged with controlled substance possession (narcotic/cocaine) less than 25 grams, a felony, according to online court records in 41A District Court in Sterling Heights. He was arrested April 9 on the drug charge warrant. When the allegations and incident were summarized on the podcast, Sorrell said: "Cap. It was Percocets. 10 of 'em." Then, he said: "Super cap. Look, look ... I got pulled over for a warrant for driving without a license while I was driving with a license." Cap means lie in slang. A shorter version of Sorrell's appearance on the podcast was posted on Jones' Instagram, including Sorrell's message to fans who are supporting him on social media. "I appreciate everybody, you know, anybody who got a brain can pay attention to me getting targeted for me livin' where I live at, for me doin' what I'm doin'," Sorrell said during the show hosted by the former NFL player. "A lot of street officers are too lazy to just type my name into Google and see what I actually am, to think that I would be selling dope, to live in a house as big as I live in as far as I live outside of the city. You know what I'm sayin'? "So, I know God got me, and I know, my family know, Pac know, I ain't never played with my nose in my life. And we know, we know what people look like and what they do when they do play with their nose. "I ain't never had no cocaine on me, never had no heroin on me. No, none of that. It was some Percs. ... They just mad that my lawyer is a great lawyer, and he got it dropped down to a $200 fine, so they put an entry warrant in on me. I can't do nothin' about it. I'm glad I got it over with. We gonna go to court, and I'm gonna keep prayin', and we gonna win again." Sterling Heights Police Capt. Mario Bastianelli indicated in an email April 9 that the drug charge was connected to a stop in January. According to a news release from January, a Sterling Heights police officer was traveling on Mound near 18 Mile when he saw a pickup truck with tinted windows about 4 a.m. Jan. 9. Upon checking the license plate, the released indicated, the registered owner — Sorrell — was found to have a warrant for his arrest out of Sterling Heights for driving while unlicensed. More: Rapper Sada Baby arrested in Macomb County on drug charge, records show The driver was identified as Sorrell, and he was arrested on the warrant, according to the release. It indicated that possible illegal contraband was openly seen inside the vehicle, but the release did not indicate what type of possible illegal contraband was found. Sorrell pleaded guilty in March to the charge of failure to display a valid license, a misdemeanor, in 41A District Court in Sterling Heights, according to online court records. They indicate the original misdemeanor charge of driving while unlicensed for three years, first offense, was in 2023 and was dismissed as Sorrell pleaded to the other charge. He paid a $200 fine, according to court records. In regard to the drug charge, Sorrell pleaded not guilty and a $5,000 personal bond was set. His next court date is April 21. Sada Baby broke into Detroit's rap scene in the late 2010s with successful singles like "Aktivated" and "Pressin" with King Von, reports Rolling Stone magazine. In 2020, he had a hit with "Whole Lotta Choppas," which got a remix featuring Nicki Minaj. Contact Christina Hall: chall@ Follow her on X, formerly Twitter: @challreporter. Support local journalism. Subscribe to the Free Press. Submit a letter to the editor at This article originally appeared on Detroit Free Press: Rapper Sada Baby gives his side of story on drug arrest on podcast
Yahoo
10-04-2025
- Yahoo
An Illegal BBL Operation in Miami Led to This Tragic Result For a Las Vegas Mother, But Now How You Think
All you BBL hopefuls are probably looking for somewhere to recover in comfort instead of withstanding the painful ride home right after you get off the table. Well, a horrifying incident that claimed the life of a Las Vegas mother should serve as a warning to be careful of the facility you recover in. Ahmonique Miller, 28, and her sister Kiera Barnes, 19, traveled from Las Vegas to Miami for cosmetic procedures at Avana Plastic Surgery Clinic earlier this month on March 7. The two documented their trip on social media, sharing their plans to recover together at Keyla's Recovery House, a home marketed as a post-surgery facility owned by Keyla Oliver. Their mother, Wakeelah, told NBC6 South Florida the pair spent $1,500 each to stay at the facility, which is located on SW 4th Street. However, just hours after the women were finished with their procedures and settled into the post-surgery facility, Ahmonique's recovery process went terribly wrong. In a video, Kiera gave the horrifying details of what happened while also debunking claims that her sister's death was due to the surgical procedure. 'My sister was very healthy. She was never denied surgery. She was given medicine that was not prescribed to her, Percocets,' Kiera said in the video, adding that Keyla never picked up her sister's prescribed medication from the pharmacy. 'I just remember my sister going to sleep and my sister never woke up.' Miami-Dade police say they responded to the recovery home where they found Ahmonique already deceased. Authorities said she showed signs of rigor mortis, suggesting she'd been dead hours prior to their arrival. Police said she was lying face down on a bed with heavy bandaging. It's unclear how much time passed between Ahmonique's death and the police being called. Her sister was moved to another center following the discovery. 'At first, the response was, she's fine, nothing is wrong,' said family attorney Jahra McLawrence via NBC. 'But once they realized that she had passed away, then it wasn't that they treated it like an emergency, but panic started to set in.' Ahmonique's cause and manner of death are still being investigated by the Miami-Dade Medical Examiner. However, police have launched an investigation into the recovery house, which they described as 'operating as an illegal post-plastic surgery recovery home.' The Miami Herald reports that the owner has no medical professional license listed in the Florida Department of Health. The report says this is only the latest of a string of pop up recovery facilities targeting women who travel to South Florida for cosmetic surgeries. The woman's mother told NBC6 she wants her daughter's death to become a warning to trigger policies to prevent this from happening to someone else's daughter. Ahmonique leaves behind a 1-year-old daughter. For the latest news, Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.
Yahoo
03-04-2025
- Health
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New bill could create VA centers to treat vets with psychedelic therapies
Amy Rising worked at Scott Air Force Base in Illinois in a squadron that helped coordinate and support fighter jets in Iraq and Afghanistan from afar during the early 2000s. After dealing with her own physical and mental health struggles after leaving the Air Force, Rising found herself on Vicodin and Percocets while raising her toddler as a single mother. 'I couldn't take care of my kid, I was way too loopy,' Rising said. 'It was like, do I want to take this medicine to help me feel better because I'm in bed all day? I'm like, dying and coming back from organ failure or do I want to look after my 3 year old?' Rising quit prescription meds and turned to cannabis — the only thing she found to help her anxiety and organ swelling. Around the same time, Rising left her job at Boeing, where she started working after leaving the Air Force in 2005 as a senior airman, and began doing veteran healthcare policy work behind the scenes, helping to pass New York state's medical cannabis law. Now, her mission is to expand access to psychedelic therapy for veterans. On Thursday, a bipartisan bill that Rising helped craft was introduced to do just that. 'I was on the front page of the Washington Post in 2014 smoking a blunt in a dress, talking about veterans' health care on the Sunday edition,' she said. 'I've been here doing this ever since.' The legislation, introduced by Rep. Lou Correa, a Democrat from California, and Rep. Jack Bergman, a Republican from Michigan, would create an 'integrated national system' within the Department of Veterans Affairs to oversee education, clinical, and research activities with MDMA, psilocybin, ketamine, ibogaine, DMT and other potential therapies. Rising described it as 'stateside access for veterans in a clinical setting.' The legislation is co-sponsored by Reps. Morgan Luttrell (R-Texas), Ro Khanna (D-Calif.), and Dan Crenshaw (R-Texas) and endorsed by the American Legion, Disabled American Veterans, Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America, Veterans of Foreign Wars, and the Wounded Warrior Project. The 'innovative therapies centers of excellence,' as they would be called, would also develop a group of medical providers who use those therapies to treat post-traumatic stress disorder, depression, anxiety, substance use disorder, chronic pain, bipolar disorder, Parkinson's disease, and more. Beyond her own use of nontraditional medicine, Rising said she wants to see greater access to psychedelics after watching veteran friends who served in Iraq and Afghanistan deal with their own mental health issues, which ultimately led to suicide. 'I would like to say that this is a desperate act of love for Matt Kahl, Brandon Ketchum, Ethan Kreutzer, Jacob David George — so many of my brothers that have gone on that I have loved. This is for them. I want to help these people want to wake up the next day,' Rising said. 'My hope for the bill is that there's fast action for fast relief.' The VA already has several centers of excellence on topics like suicide prevention, veterans returning from war, mental health research, epilepsy, and multiple sclerosis. Under the bill, the VA would be directed to designate at least five 'innovative therapies centers of excellence' across the U.S. Having the centers would mean a more formal research infrastructure as well as dedicated funding for these types of treatments, according to a policy expert familiar with the legislation. Those centers would partner with universities and have a panel of experts in those fields to advise on their activities, the bill states. 'It's a centralized more efficient system, instead of just everybody in their little silos and then having to aggregate these reports,' Rising said. The bill is a step toward expanding veteran care options for 'innovative therapies' — a space that advocates have long pushed for and that has gained momentum in the federal government within the last year. In November, the Food and Drug Administration greenlit a study on the impacts of smoking marijuana for veterans with PTSD and in December, the VA announced it would fund its first psychedelic therapy study since the 1960s looking at MDMA for veterans with PTSD and substance use disorders. 'We've spent years pushing the VA to explore breakthrough treatments like psychedelic-assisted therapies because too many of our men and women in uniform return home different than how they left,' Correa said in a press release about the bill. 'Now that the VA has heeded our call to make funding available to study these treatments, it's past time they build dedicated centers to study the therapeutic uses of psychedelic substances that our Veterans have been asking for. Veterans deserve real solutions, not more of the same.' In February, the Grunt Style Foundation called for greater accountability around veteran suicide prevention efforts, noting the steady veteran suicide rates over the last two decades despite the hundreds of millions spent on programs in the VA. Between 2001 and 2022, on average, 6,000 or more veterans committed suicide each year, according to the Department of Veterans Affairs. 'The number continues to rise despite all of the actions, efforts and money and resources being put towards these things,' Tim Jensen, president of the Grunt Style Foundation, told Task & Purpose in February. Like other groups, they have been critical of the overreliance on pharmaceuticals to address veterans' mental health and have wanted to see more treatment options outside of psychiatric drugs. With the bill, Jensen told Task & Purpose that the proposed VA centers would give veterans access to new or alternative treatment options within the U.S. instead of going abroad. 'What it provides is the opportunity for getting this treatment, or having access to this treatment, and not having to leave the United States,' Jensen said. 'It can be administered locally, so we're not having to go from potentially distant parts of the country, depending on where these five locations will be designated.' Because of legal limitations in the U.S., veterans with PTSD and other mental health concerns have sought relief through healing retreats abroad where psychedelics are legal. Heroic Hearts, founded by a former Army Ranger, has hosted more than 1,000 veterans at retreats in Peru, Mexico, and Jamaica,' according to their website. The U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency categorizes psilocybin, MDMA, DMT and ibogaine as Schedule I drugs or 'compounds with the highest potential for abuse.' However, researchers are still able to conduct studies with these drugs by applying for controlled substance research licenses with the DEA. The bill does not change any of the federal scheduling laws around these drugs but since the centers would be within the VA, the research and trials would be 'controlled and regulated in a way that the government would be satisfied,' Jensen said. The bill directs the VA to designate centers of excellence at medical facilities that partner with accredited universities with medical, psychiatry and social work schools that have expertise and research focused on innovative therapy treatments. 'Some focus on MDMA, some focus on ketamine and other things so the idea is that these universities that are already doing research on these specific substances would be able to fit under that umbrella and they would have different focuses most likely,' a policy expert familiar with the legislation said. The bill also calls for the VA to report back on its findings and recommendations on how to improve the delivery of these therapies, which could impact drug policies down the line. A copy of the bill can be read below. (function() { var scribd = = "text/javascript"; = true; = " var s = s); })() Those 'Hegseth bodyguards' are actually there for the Air Force's 'Doomsday' plane Army wants junior officers to fix quality-of-life issues that drive soldiers out '100% OPSEC' apparently means texting military plans to a reporter Ranger School's new fitness test is tougher than ever, but nixes sit-ups This photo of Air Force special ops pool training is chaos. There's a reason for that.
Yahoo
21-03-2025
- Yahoo
Breaking Fentanyl's Grip: Texas fentanyl deaths drop but Wichita Falls mothers still mourn
WICHITA FALLS (KFDX/KJTL) — According to the Texas Department of State Health Services, over 1,900 Texans died due to fentanyl poisoning from August 2023 to July 2024. Though the state has seen a decrease in fentanyl-related deaths, two Wichita Falls mothers still remember the child they each lost on the weekend of September 17, 2022. They share their story and the advocacy work they do today. 'I just wish I could hold him one last time.' Brandi Melo, Kaysen's mother, said. Kaysen Villarreal. Forever 13. 'I wish I could have done more.' Silvia Martinez, Alize's mother, said. Alize Martinez. Forever 19. The weekend of September 17, 2022, forever changed the lives of parents Brandi Melo and Silvia Martinez. 'It is a total nightmare every single day,' Melo said. Melo describes her son Kaysen as the light in the room. 'If you were sad, you were down, he would cheer you up. He was always doing his little dances. He's played football ever since he was old enough to play football,' Melo said. But the light Kaysen brought faded on September 18, leaving a hole in Melo's heart forever. On that day, Wichita Falls Police Department arrived at the scene around 11:30 a.m. Kaysen was deceased. A day, Melo says she lives on, again and again. 'I still wake up looking for him. I still go to bed when I go tell my other son goodnight. I still look for him. I wait for the phone to ring. My son Jason, he just turned 18. He's completely lost. Him and his brother were best friends,' Melo said. Martinez found her daughter, Alize. The oldest of five siblings is described as a happy soul. 'She was the first girl. She was funny. Just all over the place all the time. She was always happy,' Martinez said. On September 17, Martinez entered Alize's room to find her deceased after taking Percocets the night before. 'Finding her is forever burned into my memory,' Martinez said. 'It's so hard to realize or to see how much time has actually passed because no matter how much time has passed, it still always seems so unreal. It feels like it just happened yesterday.' Both mothers are still living in the nightmare of losing their child. 'I know how bad it gets me down. I try to do my best to stay in high spirits for the most part. But it's hard every day,' Martinez said. 'I think by me being able to get up every morning and go to my job at Sober Living and help that next person that walks through those doors, I think that I don't know so to say I'm pushing all the grief and the feelings I have about Kayson and missing him away, but it just kind of giving back being able to help someone else, being that lot in their life, being that that person that they can lean on,' Melo said. But through the heartache and grief, the two continue sharing their children's stories. The two started 'Guardians Against Fentanyl,' a nonprofit to spread awareness and create a rehabilitation space, wanting families to know they're not alone. 'We can raise more awareness. Ever since putting up the page, I've had seven different families message me not knowing that it has impacted more kids than their children. I want to let moms know that they're not alone and it's okay to tell their story,' Martinez said. 'It's really important that we share Kaysen and Alize's story because they were known in this community,' Melo said. 'Kaysen was loved by this community, by so many. Kaysen, he had over almost 2000 people at his funeral.' But even through the work, the missing puzzle piece in their lives will always be there. Melo and Martinez, each wanting to love on their child one more time… 'I will keep his memory alive. And I'll never stop saying his name and telling his story. I'm sorry. That's what I'd tell him. I'm sorry. I'm sorry I couldn't save you. Melo 'I love and miss you every day. I hate that I couldn't save her,' Martinez said. If you'd like more information about Sober Living, click here. For the Guardians Against Fentanyl Facebook page, click here. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
