A Pilot was charged on cocaine distribution, money laundering and other conspiracy charges related to his role in a scheme to import large quantities from Guyana to New Jersey and New York, in exchange for $7.5 million, authorities announced.
The U.S. Coast Guard offloaded more $85 million worth of cocaine at Broward County’s Port Everglades on Monday after seizing the drugs in international waters.
The National Crime Agency has said it is increasingly concerned about violent Albanian criminal gangs, which have considerable control over the illegal cocaine market.
Twelve current and former TSA officers and airport staff are facing possible life sentences after being indicted on an alleged drug trafficking operation that smuggled 20 tons of cocaine into the US through Puerto Rico over an 18-year period.
Her baggage now includes a felony conviction.
Amid the mainstream U.S. media’s current self-righteous frenzy against “fake news,” it’s worth recalling how the big newspapers destroyed Gary Webb, an honest journalist who exposed some hard truths about the Reagan administration’s collaboration with Nicaraguan Contra cocaine traffickers.
Police said Monday they arrested a Haredi man after he arrived at Ben-Gurion airport carrying more than six and a half kilograms (14 pounds) of a substance suspected to be cocaine.
Brazilian police detained an Israeli man in possession of 300 kilograms of cocaine as part of a wave of arrests of gang members suspected of drug dealing.
Twenty-two people suspected of laundering millions of dollars in Colombian cocaine profits are being charged by Miami prosecutors.
Two former baggage handlers at Los Angeles International Airport were arrested Monday on suspicion of trafficking several pounds of cocaine through the southern California hub.