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Drug smugglers deliver £68 million worth of cocaine to supermarkets by mistake

Workers unpacking Colombian bananas shipments find rather unexpected surprise amid crates

The Independent UK

Four arrested, cocaine worth B51m seized at airports

In two separate cases, a South African man was arrested by customs officers at Phuket airport for allegedly smuggling 1.49 kilogrammes of cocaine worth 4.47 million baht, and three suspects arriving from Brazil were arrested at Suvarnabhumi airport after officers found 15.7 kilogrammes of cocaine with a street value of…

Bangkok Post

Drug smugglers deliver shipment of cocaine worth £68 million to supermarkets by mistake

The narcotics had reportedly arrived via Europe's second largest port in Hamburg from Columbia and were delivered to Czech stores before the criminals had a chance to intercept

Daily Mirror

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'British Pablo Escobar' hunted as Liverpool men arrested over cocaine haul

The men arrested in Greece are said to be at the top of a major international cartel

Liverpool Echo

Police recover £209k of cocaine in traffic stop on A90 between Dundee and Perth

Officers raided the driver’s home and found more drugs following the operation.

Daily Record

Driver stopped by cops for using phone caught with £40,000 cocaine haul

Glasgow Road Police officers say the driver was also disqualified, uninsured and attempted to give officers false information

Daily Record

Bus driver on 'come down from cocaine' crashed into and paralysed Brit tourist in Malta

Rob Butt, 48, has been left wheelchair-dependent after the open-top vehicle he was riding on crashed into low-lying tree branches in 2018 which killed two people

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Police losing narco war in deadly Amazon region where duo disappeared

A key police outpost lies in ruins after a daring raid – a sign of the growing danger in an increasingly lucrative smuggling route

The Guardian - US

Cocaine-dealing mum took her kids on drugs runs for 'cheating' criminal boyfriend

Sinead Lavelle, 34, was part of an £800,000 plot to transport 20kg of cocaine from the West Midlands into Devon which was spearheaded by her partner Gareth Pegler

Daily Mirror

Consett couple in court after a child was hospitalised for ingesting cocaine and cannabis

Jordan Wilson, 24, and Njabulo Buthelezi, 21, admitted child neglect and possessing a controlled drug of class B

Chronicle Live

Bananas Plan: Cocaine Shipment Worth $83 Million Gets Delivered To Supermarkets By Mistake

Bungling drug smugglers lost out on a shipment of cocaine with a street value of more than $83 million hidden in crates of bananas after they were delivered to Czech supermarkets before they could be intercepted in Germany en route from Colombia.

Zenger

'I saw a woman shooting heroin with child in pram on city centre alley', says Councillor

Forced prostitution, open crack cocaine and heroin use and intimidation are all issues associated with the back street

Dublin Live

Gang leader helped lead £6 million cocaine and cannabis operation from prison

Liverpool-sourced drugs have flooded North Wales

Liverpool Echo

How detectives cracked £6m plot to flood Wales with cocaine and cannabis

Police hail 'major victory' as they release images from their Operation Blue Cobalt investigation

Wales Online

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The Independent UK

Bradley Cooper speaks out about cocaine addiction: ‘No girls wanted to look at me”

‘I was totally depressed’

Edinburgh Live

Edinburgh man dies in prison while serving a sentence for gun crime

Liam McCaig was found in possession of an illegal firearm as well as £33,000 worth of cocaine. He was sentenced at Edinburgh High Court to five years imprisonment in 2019.

The Independent UK

Manhunt for ‘British Escobar’ after Greek police seize £12m of cocaine in banana shipment

Police are hunting a fifth man wanted in connection with the seizures

Daily Record

Armed police swarm on property during drug bust where £100,000 of heroin and cocaine recovered

A police warrant was executed for a property in Pilton North Drive in the Granton area of Edinburgh on Tuesday, June 14.

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Liverpool Echo

Gang leader who claimed to be dog breeder sold kilogram of cocaine

The 48-year-old took over the illegal enterprise from his twin brother

Liverpool Echo

Dealer bragged about key worker who moved drugs for him during lockdown

Darren Nelson helped run a £6m EncroChat drug plot

Liverpool Echo

'Puzzling' arrests as Liverpool suspects turn up in Italian and Albanian mafia turf

The men are suspected of involvement in the highest echelons of organised crime in Europe

Liverpool Echo

Mum made teen her 'sexual play thing' and had baby with him

Sarah Campbell groomed the boy over a number of months and the two would "get off their barnets" together on cocaine and cannabis

The Guardian - US

Canada air crew caught up in ‘hellish’ Dominican Republic drugs bust begs for repatriation

Five-member crew was detained after they found a bag of cocaine on 5 April and spent nine days in jail in a ‘hellish situation’

Dublin Live

Side effects of cocaine use as treatment in Ireland trebles

The latest figures from the Health Research Board shows that 10,769 cases were treated for problem drug use in 2021

Reuters

EU warns of rising narcotics production in Europe as new drugs hit market

Narcotics production is growing in Europe, according to an estimate published on Tuesday by the EU drugs agency, which warned of a proliferation of new psychoactive substances being sold and consumed on the continent.

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