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A highly decorated police officer in Nigeria has been arrested following accusations he belongs to an international drugs cartel, police say. Abba Kyari, already suspended for allegedly helping self-avowed fraudster to launder his money in the US, is now accused in a cocaine plot. Officials say Mr Kyari asked a colleague to help him siphon […]
Adulterated cocaine has killed at least 20 people and left 74 in hospitals around the Buenos Aires region of Argentina, the authorities say. Investigators believe the illegal drug was either laced with some kind of poison or “cut” with another substance. The regional security minister called on any users who had bought cocaine in the […]
Cocaine with an estimated street value of €3.1 million has been found in a vehicle at Dublin Port. Customs dog James found the class A drugs in a refrigerated unit after a vehicle was stopped as part of a Revenue Customs Service and the Gardaí (Irish police) investigation. Gardaí said the operation is targeting transnational […]
Two men have been jailed for attempting to smuggle $341,875 worth of cocaine in baked beans and condensed coconut milk tins. Daniel Kelly and Steven Gilhooly were sentenced to a total of 15 years in prison at Snaresbrook Crown Court, London, on January 12, according to London’s Metropolitan Police. Kelly and Gilhooly, both aged 43, […]
Cops in Niger seized more than 200 kg of cocaine worth around $8.7 million that was being transported in the local mayor’s official truck, reports said on Monday. The mayor and his driver, who were in the vehicle at the time, were arrested with 199 bricks of cocaine at a checkpoint on the road heading […]
A huge haul of cocaine worth £33 million was found in a shipment of onion rings about to enter the UK. An illicit cargo weighing 418kg was discovered by Border Force officers when they stopped a lorry at the UK inbound zone in Coquelles, France. Piotr Perzenowski, 30, of Mazowieckie, Poland has now been charged […]
Six men were arrested off the coast of Plymouth after authorities seized more than two tonnes (2,000kg) of cocaine. A British national, and five Nicaraguans were arrested on a luxury yacht on Thursday. The men, aged from 24 to 49, were held on suspicion of drug trafficking and remain in custody, the National Crime Agency […]
A man and woman were arrested in Maine following the discovery of cocaine disguised as a cake in their vehicle. Acting on information received, the Maine Drug Enforcement Agency stopped a vehicle on Tuesday along Interstate 295 as it entered Gardiner. A drug-sniffing K9 alerted them to the presence of illegal drugs in the vehicle, […]
Authorities in Algeria seized half a ton of cocaine floating off the country’s coast, after fishermen in the area raised an alarm. The fishermen spotted and reported suspicious bags floating in the water near Oran, a port city, according to a press release from Algeria’s Ministry of Defense on Monday. Coast Guard units dispatched to […]
The high of spending with each purchase hits in a similar way as cocaine, a study has revealed. Shopaholics can get addicted to using credit cards as the purchase gives the brain the same ‘hit’ like cocaine. The study conducted by Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has revealed that credit card purchases trigger the same […]
Custom officials on Wednesday in the Netherlands, Germany and Belgium seized more than 23,000 kilograms of cocaine, worth billions of dollars, in an international operation that resulted in one arrest. Officials were calling the seize one of the largest amounts of cocaine ever seized in all of Europe. The operation lasted more than a week […]
Police in the Marshall Islands have found precious cargo, drugs in an abandoned boat that washed up ashore. The vessel drifted across the Pacific Ocean from Latin America, spending probably months in the rough seas. Authorities found 649 kilogram of cocaine that’s estimated to have a street value of USD $80 million. Police said the […]