The increasing cooperation between Peru and Bolivia in the fight against drug trafficking led to the destruction of at least 50 clandestine airstrips in Peru and to the seizure of more than a dozen small planes in the Bolivian Amazon. In a joint operation of the US and the Costa Rican coast guards, police forces…
DetailsTwo Nigerian men were arrested at the Akanu Ibiam International Airport in Enugu, Eastern Nigeria, and accused of drug trafficking and unlawful importation of 9.975 kg of heroin. The two drug traffickers were sentenced to 40 and 15 years of prison. The Chairman of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, Ahmadu Giade, declared that this…
DetailsA French soldier has reportedly been arrested while carrying 27kg of cocaine through an airport in Cayenne, the capital of French Guiana, about to board a military transport aircraft bound for Paris’s Charles De Gaulle airport. A man has reportedly been arrested at Newark airport in New Jersey, USA, for attempting to smuggle cocaine from…
DetailsA survey by the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA) has found that London’s sewage contains the highest concentration of cocaine in Europe. According to the same survey, Britain also has the highest rate of cocaine use among young adults in Europe. 4.2% of people aged 15 – 34 admitted to having…
DetailsRoss Ulbricht, founder of the Silk Road marketplace on the dark web, through which more than US$200 million worth of drugs has been sold online, has been jailed for life in the United States. The Spanish police, in conjunction with the country’s navy, have seized almost 2 tonnes of cocaine headed from the Caribbean. Reportedly,…
DetailsDiosdado Cabello, Venezuela’s parliamentary speaker, has denied involvement in cocaine smuggling, following US reports that he is under investigation for trafficking and money laundering. A plane carrying over a tonne of cocaine crashed into the Caribbean following a pursuit by the Colombian air force. The use of caterpillars which feed on coca plants has been…
DetailsThe Colombian government has halted the use of the herbicide glyphosate, and said it will find alternative methods of destroying coca crops The UK’s Border Force has seized approximately 50 kilograms of cocaine at the Port of Dover, hidden inside the bodywork of a Volkswagen van Ecuadorian authorities have seized 2.2 tonnes of cocaine at…
DetailsPolice in Berlin reportedly found more than 386kg of cocaine, which was shipped to 14 different Aldi supermarkets, inside banana boxes. It is the largest ever seizure of cocaine in Berlin to date. The Colombian government has announced it will stop using glyphosate, a herbicide deemed “probably carcinogenic” by the World Health Organization (WHO), to…
DetailsUK authorities have seized a record £500 million worth of cocaine from a ship in the North Sea. Nine Turkish nationals have been charged with drug trafficking offences. Colombia’s Health Ministry has recommended banning the herbicide spray that kills coca crops, glyphosate, following the World Health Organisation’s (WHO) classification of it as a carcinogen in…
DetailsGerman customs officials have reportedly found 257 kilograms of pure cocaine in a shipment of peanuts from Argentina. Around 21 kilograms of cocaine, estimated to be worth around US$600,000 has reportedly been found washed up on Destin beach in Florida. Pierre Lapaque, a top UN narcotics official, has said that Africa is “the market of…
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