Ex-detective who stole £400k of seized cocaine in Manchester jailed for 19 years Andrew Talbot took drugs from a Greater Manchester police evidence store and supplied them to criminals The Guardian - UK · Oct 18, 2024
Former detective jailed after stealing almost 4kg of cocaine from police stores while at work Investigation into Andrew Talbot was launched after he accidentally dropped a bag of cocaine outside his daughter’s primary school Evening Standard · Oct 18, 2024
FBI Says Olympic Snowboarder Wanted For Running Murderous Drug Ring Ryan James Wedding is one of 16 defendants facing charges in connection with the international drug trafficking scheme. International Business Times · Oct 18, 2024
Former Canadian Olympian charged in major US cocaine-smuggling case Snowboarder Ryan Wedding and 15 others are accused of shipping 60 tonnes of cocaine a year to the US and Canada. Al Jazeera · Oct 17, 2024
Virtual reality to be used in UK trial to help people beat cocaine addiction Research is one of 11 projects part of a £12m government plan to reduce drug overdoses with new technology The Guardian - UK · Oct 17, 2024
Canadian Olympian-Turned-Drug-Lord Charged With Leading Transnational Cocaine-Trafficking Ring The indictment also accuses the former athlete of orchestrating multiple murders. Latin Times · Oct 17, 2024
Canadian former Olympic snowboarder wanted in US drug trafficking case A former Olympic snowboarder for Canada has been charged with running a drug trafficking ring that authorities say shipped vast amounts of cocaine across the Americas and killed several people The Independent UK · Oct 17, 2024
Baby who died after mom left him in hot car passed away from cocaine intoxication Baby’s mother Andrea Luncsford, 26, is charged with murder and endangering the health and life of a child The Independent UK · Oct 17, 2024
Olympic kayaker pleads guilty to cocaine import attempt Olympian Nathan Baggaley and his brother Dru have admitted trying to import $200 million worth of cocaine after previously having their convictions quashed. AAP · Oct 17, 2024
"You know how Fleetwood Mac almost dedicated Rumours to their cocaine dealer? I think we should dedicate this album to all the booze we bought at Tesco": Lambrini Girls announce debut album Who Let The Dogs Out Brighton punk duo Lambrini Girls drop the new track Big D*** Energy, share details of their debut album Who Let The Dogs Out Louder · Oct 16, 2024
'She's Only Guilty Of Stupidity': Dad Defends 28-year-old Brit Facing 60-year US Jail Sentence For Drug Smuggling Kimberly Hall, a 28-year-old British beautician, faces up to 60 years in a US prison for allegedly smuggling £3.5 million worth of cocaine, with her father insisting she was coerced and is "only guilty of stupidity." International Business Times UK · Oct 12, 2024
Delhi: Cocaine of 2000CR Rs seized by police in 'namkeen' packets In a huge drug bust, the Special Cell of the Delhi Police confiscated a large consignment of cocaine weighing around 200 kg, worth Rs 2,000 crores. Read further on Dynamite News: Dynamite News · Oct 11, 2024
Five men convicted for smuggling £184million of cocaine hidden in banana boxes following Tottenham police raid The Met said the cocaine smuggled from South America could have made up ‘many millions’ of drug deals Evening Standard · Oct 10, 2024
Texas CBP Seize Over 20 Pounds of Cocaine Hidden Inside Truck's Floorboards With September data yet to be released, CBP officers saw a decrease of more than 20,000 pounds of cocaine seized between FY2023 and FY2024 Latin Times · Oct 10, 2024
The Guardian - UK · Oct 10, 2024 British soldiers jailed for selling cocaine worth nearly £100,000 to comrades Four men sold drug at Wiltshire base over nearly three years and bought designer goods with proceeds, court heard
International Business Times · Oct 9, 2024 Pacific Island Nations Swamped By Global Drug Trade A surge of drugs is engulfing the paradisal South Pacific, as cartels and triads use far-flung island nations to channel narcotics across the globe, top police and UN officials have told AFP. Pacific islands such as Fiji and Tonga sit at the crossroads of largely unpatrolled ocean-trafficking routes used to…
AAP · Oct 9, 2024 Former council mayor traded influence for cocaine An ex-Melbourne council mayor traded influence for cocaine after a secret probe into an alleged bribery scheme, Victoria's corruption watchdog has found.
Latin Times · Oct 4, 2024 CBP Agents Seize Over 10 Cocaine Packages Hidden Inside a Motorized Wheelchair According to the most recent data published by CBP, the agency had seized almost 27,000 pounds of cocaine along the U.S. Southwest border as of August
Latin Times · Oct 4, 2024 Massive Cocaine Supply Found Hidden in Wheelchair at Texas Airport 12 kilograms of cocaine was recovered from inside of a motorized wheelchair in El Paso, Texas after officials ran it through an x-ray machine due to its suspicious appearance.
Latin Times · Oct 3, 2024 DEA Pulls out of Haiti as Gangs Continue to Fund Their Operations Through Drug Trafficking Experts warn that the decision is "shortsighted," as Haitian gangs increasingly fund their operations through drug trade links with cartels from other regions
The Guardian - UK · Oct 2, 2024 ‘Iceman’ crime boss jailed in Scotland over ‘industrial-scale’ drug trafficking James Stevenson pleaded guilty mid-trial over plan to import 1kg blocks of cocaine into Glasgow in banana boxes
BANG Premier · Oct 2, 2024 Ozzy Osbourne took his own drug dealer on tour Black Sabbath frontman Ozzy Osbourne has recalled being so addicted to cocaine that he needed his own drug dealer "on the road".
The National (Scotland) · Oct 2, 2024 One of the UK's 'most wanted men' jailed over running global drug smuggling ring ONE of the UK’s most wanted men who plotted to smuggle £76 million of cocaine into Britain from Ecuador in consignments of bananas has been…
The Independent UK · Oct 2, 2024 One of UK’s most wanted men, known as Iceman, jailed for cocaine banana plot James Stevenson, 59, known as The Iceman, pleaded guilty mid-trial at the High Court in Glasgow
Latin Times · Sep 30, 2024 U.S. Customs and Border Protection Agents in South Texas Stay Increase Cocaine Seizures Along the Border With one month remaining in Fiscal Year 2024, CBP has conducted more drug seizures than in all of 2023 (53,699)