A drug raid in the Bronx initially turned up a lot of wood furniture in a storage facility and nearby U-Haul truck but Homeland Security Investigations and Drug Enforcement agents, armed with search warrants, soon found $4.1 million in cash and 3 kilos of heroin, much of it hidden in compartments inside the furniture.
When a US federal judge sentences two Venezuelan drug smugglers, perhaps later this month, it will mark the final chapter of a story worthy of the Netflix series “Narcos.”
Colombian cartel leaders may be the key to locking up El Chapo forever.
Mexican drug kingpin Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman has been extradited to the United States, Mexico’s government said Thursday, a little more than a year he was caught following his brazen escape from a maximum-security prison.
A former Haitian rebel leader turned politician has been arrested after taking part in a radio show.
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.
American law enforcement has a new Public Enemy No. 1 among illegal drugs: It’s called heroin.
She’s a gangster’s babe in toyland.
Two Colombian drug traffickers will face charges in the U.S. after shipping over 17 pounds of heroin and cocaine to Manhattan aboard a storied Spanish Navy sailboat, authorities announced Monday.
A former top Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) official has accused Congress of putting pharmaceutical company profits ahead of public health in the battle to combat the US’s prescription opioid epidemic.