•California Assembly votes to reduce penalties for the sale of crack cocaine •South African cabinet minister under investigation for alleged involvement with cocaine-smuggling syndicate •Argentine Supreme Court Judge announces national rise in drug-trafficking operations •An international drug-smuggling and money-laundering ring was dismantled in the Dominican Republic •A 78-year old US doctor was found guilty of…
• A leading French narcotics officer was charged in connection with the disappearance of captured cocaine from the French police HQ • 127kgs of cocaine were seized aboard a Spanish navy vessel returning from Colombia • The European Commission announced additional funding for the AIRCOP initiative • The former Haitian president was banned from leaving…
• The New York Times started debate on the end of marijuana prohibition. • A French counternarcotics officer was arrested near the Spanish border after 51kgs of cocaine “disappeared” from Paris HQ • UK Border Force discovers 40kgs of cocaine aboard container vessel used to transport bananas • The US courier firm FedEx pleaded not…
Kentucky senator proposes tougher US cocaine-sentencing laws UK government survey shows significant increase in domestic drug use over 10-year period •A Puerto Rico-based cocaine trafficking ring faced drug charges in the US • Bulgaria’s State Agency for National Security announced the dismantlement of a major heroin-trafficking group • In Los Angeles, a smuggler was sentenced…
• The Prominent Colombian drug lord Hernán Alonso “El Ratón” Villa was arrested in Spain following a joint Colombian-Spanish operation •The US courier firm FedEx faced with fifteen counts of drug-trafficking following an indictment by the California federal grand jury • The reputed head of a drug-trafficking ring was arrested in the UAE • A…
The Research Consortium on Drugs and the Law published a study that assesses state responses to illicitly-used drugs in eight countries in Latin America. Panamanian border control is concerned that the country is become a trafficking route for Colombian cocaine The Netherlands is reporting a rise in cocaine entering its ports. A lawyer and fraud…
Reports that Dominican Republic bears the brunt of trafficking through the Caribbean More discussion on the need to legalise the drugs trade – this time focused on heroin and Afghanistan by the British Ambassador InsightCrime analyses what the arrest of Tijuana cartel leader, Fernando Sanchez Arellano, means for the drug empire With many cartel leaders…
Costa Rica cooperated with US Coast Guard on cocaine trafficking, resulting in significant seizures The UN reports a decrease in coca cultivation in Bolivia, falls to 11-year low Ahead of the International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking on 26 June, Ruth Dreifuss and Jorge Sampaio scan the debate on international drug policy The…
