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Cocaine Bear fans ask ‘is this real’ as new film Attack of the Meth Gator teased

The studio behind Sharknado is producing the drug-fueled ‘mockbuster’

Manchester Evening News

Teenager dealing Class A drugs sent into youth custody

Jayley Rickman admirtted being concerned in the supply of heroin, crack cocaine and cocaine.

Bristol Post

Comedy-horror Cocaine Bear is based on a true story. Well, kind of

Comedy-horror Cocaine Bear has an undoubtedly bizarre premise. But the movie is actually loosely based on real-life events.

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Leeds thug Lucas White filmed himself with sawn-off shotgun before firing bullets at 'rival' in car

Lucas White and his accomplice Luke Dickinson are now behind bars after a dramatic police chase

Leeds Live

Ecuador, Belgium sign deal to fight crime after mega cocaine bust

Ecuador and Belgium on Monday agreed to increase bilateral cooperation in their fight against international organized crime, a day after Ecuadorean police seized nearly nine tonnes of drugs bound for the European country.

Reuters

Dealer caught outside Iceland selling heroin and cocaine

Luke Hutchinson was found with hundreds of pounds of drugs and nearly £800 in cash

Liverpool Echo

Criminal caught after five years on the run in Pakistan

Qasim Haider got married while on the run and the couple are expecting a child

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Former cop Thomas Booker apologises over sophisticated online drug trafficking syndicate

A former police officer who ran a "one-stop shop" online drug trafficking syndicate became addicted to cocaine and "probably" would have died had he not been arrested, court has heard.

ABC News

Choose your fighter: ‘Cocaine Bear’ takes on ‘Ant-Man’ at the box office

Universal Pictures’ “Cocaine Bear” couldn’t defeat Disney and Marvel’s “Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania” at the domestic box office this weekend, according to estimates from measurement firm Comscore.

Los Angeles Times

Mum who lost loving son to suicide during cocaine 'comedown' sets up mental health charity

Nicola Smerdon's youngest son, Tom took his own life in 2019 after struggling with the mental impact that taking cocaine was having on his life.

Daily Record

'Cocaine Bear' gets high with $23.1M, 'Ant-Man' sinks fast

Sunday studio estimates say the gonzo R-rated horror comedy “Cocaine Bear” sniffed up $23.1 million in its opening weekend, while Marvel's “Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania” was quickly dwarfed in its second weekend

The Independent UK

Cocaine Bear review – larky horror comedy is roaring good fun

Elizabeth Banks’s playfully anarchic creature-feature about a rampaging beast high on drugs is as daft as it is entertaining

The Guardian - UK

Nihilistic and crazed, Cocaine Bear is zoological zeitgeist for these end times

A drug-filled beast and an ennui-prone alligator sum up 21st-century life, but at least Flaco the owl is a positive role model

The Guardian - UK

Drug dealer caught with crack cocaine and heroin hidden in his underwear

Seventeen wraps of heroin were uncovered

Nottingham Post

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Wales Online

'My sporty, caring, happy son killed himself on a cocaine comedown and I can't let other parents face the same thing alone'

'I was really aware that if Tom had been older than 25, we wouldn’t have had support'

Daily Record

Cocaine-fuelled driver ate his own keys after arrest for ramming girlfriend's car

Gerard Laughland, 37, showed PC Parnell the inside of his mouth and said he had eaten his keys, prosecutor Danielle McDonald told Falkirk Sheriff Court.

Salon

Cocaine Bear doesn't even elicit a snort

Besides one action sequence and a fake bear that out-acts its human costars, the film fails its amusing title

Wales Online

Accomplished footballer found with heroin and crack cocaine in his boxers

Falikou Traore, 21, was also found with a knife wrapped in paper after he was detained by police who witnessed him conducting a drug deal

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Los Angeles Times

Review: The enjoyably grisly 'Cocaine Bear' is nothing to sniff at

In September 1985, Tennessee authorities discovered the body of Andrew Carter Thornton II, a former narcotics officer turned drug smuggler who had fallen to his death from a plane. The bags full of cocaine he was transporting into the country took longer to recover. By the time the illicit cargo…

Liverpool Echo

'Charity worker' lived secret life as drug kingpin who enjoyed luxury holidays to Dubai

Faiz Rehman bought and sold more than £4m of drugs in just 11 weeks

Evening Standard

Cocaine Bear review: beastly high-jinx movie will leave you gasping and giggling

This is Jaws meets Gilmore Girls and Brave

Tribune News Service

Colombia completely halted eradication of coca crops last month

Colombia last month entirely halted the eradication of coca, the raw material for cocaine, as the government of President Gustavo Petro calls for a new approach in the war on drugs.

Chicago Tribune

‘Cocaine Bear’ review: Bear finds smuggler’s drugs. The welcome, and truthiness, wear off fast

It gives me no pleasure to hate on “Cocaine Bear.” The director Elizabeth Banks (”Pitch Perfect 2,” the “Charlie’s Angels” reboot) isn’t the chief problem, even if her mashup of dismemberment, mugging and dubious heartwarming is this month’s working definition of “tonal problems.” But with this script, the project was…

Inverse

'Cocaine Bear' Review: A Drug-Fueled Descent Into Pure Chaos

'Cocaine Bear' is a fittingly absurd, shockingly violent horror comedy. Here's Inverse's review of the new, Elizabeth Banks-directed film.

The Guardian - UK

Cocaine Bear review – critter-on-drugs thriller struggles to live up to sensational title

Not since Snakes on a Plane has a title promised so much, but despite a great cast the plot is too tame

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