The Latest Breaking News from Cocaine

Royal Navy warship torches boat carrying £24m of cocaine in the Caribbean

More than 400kg of drugs was seized from the vessel, which is believed to have come from South America

Evening Standard · Oct 29, 2022

Moment Royal Navy blows up boat caught carrying £24m of cocaine in Caribbean

Royal Navy's Caribbean-based patrol ship HMS Medway is seen sinking a smugglers' boat after 400kg of cocaine valued at around £24 million were seized from the vessel

Daily Mirror · Oct 29, 2022

Royal Navy blows up boat after £24m cocaine seizure in Caribbean

Proud Royal Navy commander hails success of operation in the Caribbean

Wales Online · Oct 29, 2022

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The Conversation · Oct 26, 2022

Pensioner, 74, jailed in Portugal for drug smuggling moves to UK to finish prison term

Cocaine smuggler Roger Clarke, 74, left his Lisbon prison just weeks after his wife Susan, 72, died from breast cancer, with the pair jailed after being caught with drugs stitched into their suitcases’ lining

Daily Mirror · Oct 25, 2022

Northumberland cocaine dealer who had £86,000 go into his bank caught due to fidgety woman in car

Liam Friar, of Belford, was caught after a woman's car was stopped and her demeanour led to a search

Chronicle Live · Oct 25, 2022

Vic arrests after cocaine found in chicken

A cocaine-laced frozen chicken truck tried to cross the Hume Freeway, but did not make it to the other side.

The New Daily · Oct 25, 2022

Colombia, the world's largest cocaine producer, faces a change in drug policy

SAN JOSE DEL GUAVIARE, Colombia — The grizzled farmers had come on motorcycles and in pickups from jungle homesteads to a soccer field hours from the nearest town of any consequence.

Los Angeles Times · Oct 24, 2022

Three New Yorkers killed by fentanyl-laced cocaine ordered from delivery service

‘Julia was a driven professional with everything to live for. Never in a billion years would she have touched anything with fentanyl,’ father says

The Independent UK · Oct 24, 2022

Colombian drug dealers’ dirty lawyers caught selling sweetheart deals to avoid US prison

DALLAS – The Colombian cocaine kingpins faced extradition to the U.S. on serious drug trafficking charges and a lifetime in federal prison. They were desperate, wealthy and needed excellent legal advice.

Tribune News Service · Oct 24, 2022