• 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 British gang which included a Gatwick airport baggage handler was imprisoned for attempting to smuggle cocaine out of Jamaica
• A senior Venezuelan general was detained on the Dutch Caribbean island of Aruba following a US drug-trafficking indictment
