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Years-Long Pinellas Drug Investigation Ends with Nine Arrests, $2.1 Million Cocaine Seized

A multi-year investigation in Pinellas County, Florida, culminated in nine arrests and the seizure of 132 pounds of cocaine, marking the largest drug bust in the county in over 40 years.

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Teenage Drug Dealer Busted After Stuffing Kinder Egg With Bags Of Cocaine In Viral Arrest

A 19-year-old was jailed after police found cocaine hidden in a Kinder Egg during a roadside search, revealing a wider drug supply operation through phone evidence.

International Business Times UK

Is Belgium becoming a narco-state? Belgian politicians debate on The Ring

Brussels and Antwerp have seen rising drug-related shootings and turf wars among trafficking networks. Has Belgium lost control of the drug issue? Brussels Mayor Philippe Close and conservative opposition politician Mathias Vanden Borre (N-VA) go head-to-head in this edition.

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UPS worker ‘King’ jailed over £10m cocaine smuggling racket

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The Independent UK

Worker used his job at UPS to smuggle £10m worth of cocaine in to UK for kingpin

The illegal drugs supply operations were cracked when law enforcement agencies gained access in 2020 to the secure EncroChat messaging system

The Independent UK

UPS worker ‘King’ jailed for 12 years over £10m cocaine smuggling operation

Zak Archbold used his role as a supervisor to ensure that drug shipments came through undetected and went on to the right truck for collection.

Evening Standard

Katie Price reacts to her kids Junior and Princess crying over her 'scary' drug binges

The former glamour model, 43, battled depression and a cocaine addiction in the late 2010s

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Cocaine worth £10 million uncovered in house during police raid

More than 100 kilos of the drug were recovered from an address

The Independent UK

Grandmother arrested over £1m cocaine hidden in plantain peels on London-bound flight

Mary Yetunde Barek was arrested after around 13kg of cocaine, with a street value of more than £1 million, was discovered in her luggage

Evening Standard

'Were to be paid $5,000-$10,000': Texas couple, 80 and 74, arrested after 345-pound cocaine bust at border

An elderly couple has been charged with federal drug trafficking after US authorities allegedly recovered more than 345 pounds of suspected cocaine hidden inside a trailer they were towing through an American Border Patrol checkpoint in South Texas.

The Times of India

Rape-accused Melbourne identity claims woman is lying

A man with connections to Melbourne's elite has denied he sexually assaulted and raped a former worker after using cocaine with her at his home.

AAP

Ex-Test spinner's appeal turned down over drug supply

Former spin bowler Stuart MacGill has suffered a major courtroom blow after his appeal against a drug supply conviction was unanimously tossed out.

AAP

K-9 Sniffs Out 345 Pounds of Cocaine Hidden in Elderly Bay City Couple's Trailer at Texas Checkpoint

An 80-year-old man and his 74-year-old wife face federal charges after agents found 345 pounds of cocaine hidden in their trailer near Falfurrias.

Latin Times

Five charged in Liberia after more than 200kg of cocaine seized in drug bust

Shipment discovered at airport in Monrovia and valued at £14.2m had been falsely declared as seasoning cubes

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Steve-O Admitted To Spending ‘A Day Doing Cocaine’ Before Performing Iconic Jackass Stunt

The story behind the stunt is somehow wilder than the feat itself.

Bangkok Post

African-led transnational drug ring busted

Authorities have arrested 13 Thai and foreign suspects who were members of a transnational drug network led by a fugitive African known as “Big Jot” and seized 130 kilogrammes of heroin and cocaine worth over 400 million baht.

International Business Times UK

10 Photos of Victor Willis: Inside the Village People Star's Rise to Fame and Drug Addiction Battle

Victor Willis, co-founder of the Village People, passed away at 74. His life was marked by disco fame and a public battle with cocaine addiction.

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One dead, three ill after unknowing heroin intake

Health authorities are issuing a warning to party drug users after heroin was found in methamphetamine and cocaine products across one state.

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Florida woman found with cocaine hidden in her ‘jail purse’, insists that someone hid it inside her without her knowledge

The Sheriff's Office says if this story isn't a "good enough reminder to not do drugs, then I don’t know what is!!”

The Guardian - UK

A boy clowning around on a basketball court in a Colombian cocaine corridor: Mads Nissen’s best photograph

‘I took this in 2017, when Didiller was nine. A few years ago, I returned to the area and asked about him, but couldn’t find him. Someone told me he had been killed’

Tom’s Hardware

AI researchers trick chatbots into sharing how to make cocaine as long as they believe a user is wearing a green shirt — 'CoT Forgery' exploit spurs LLMs to divulge forbidden info by faking trusted chains of thought

Tagged partitions of a LLM's input sequence are meant to provide security through trusted roles, but it turns out that models judge whether inputs sound like they belong in certain tags rather than literally interpreting them, making them vulnerable to prompt injection.

The Canberra Times

My life as an enforcer in the Canberra criminal underbelly that would terrify you

There's a 'Cocaine Lane' in the heart of our city.

Louder

"Ma, I'm real sick. I need help. I got to come home": The trauma and triumph of Stevie Ray Vaughan

After almost dying at a London show, Stevie Ray Vaughan was given two weeks to live - it was the wake-up call he needed

Bangkok Post

Turk nabbed for smuggling cocaine

Customs officers have arrested a Turkish man after uncovering more than 12 kilogrammes of cocaine concealed in his luggage at Suvarnabhumi Airport.

International Business Times UK

'The Cocaine Clause': How Keith Urban Reportedly Lands Multimillion-Dollar Payout in $325M Divorce From Nicole Kidman

Keith Urban's divorce from Nicole Kidman includes a reported sobriety clause, potentially earning him millions. The clause highlights the unique financial dynamics of their split.

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