Crime

A residential street in Oldbury was sealed off overnight following a stabbing as emergency services and police rushed to Lovett Avenue in Lion Farm estate at around 4pm on Thursday, August 29

Nigerian authorities have apprehended five women suspected of involvement in a drug trafficking ring at the Seme border as they returned from Ghana, according to the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA).

National Crime Agency says overproduction of drug in countries where it has been legalised may be behind rise

The historic arrest of Ismael ‘El Mayo’ Zambada sparked weeks of tension that resulted in a ’1940s film noir’ when he was abducted and flown across the border where he was picked up by US police

Gangster Curtis ’Cocky’ Warren says he wants to be out of the ’public glare’ after admitting to breaching a Serious Crime Prevention Order he was slapped with for drug importation

Mohammed Shabir and Calum Sunderland to appear in court after death of mother and three children

A joint Spanish and Colombian operation has dismantled a cocaine processing lab, resulting in dozens of arrests and the seizure of thousands of litres of chemical precursors, Europol said Monday in an official statement.

Neil Selkirk, 54, was found in a park in Gateshead with injuries consistent with having been assaulted. He died at the scene and a murder investigation was launched.

The nordic nation has become a gateway to Europe for South American drug traffickers

The UK’s National Crime Agency (NCA) stated that Border Force officers intercepted Bruce Knowles, 55, and Ferhat Gumrukcuoglu, 31, near East Benacre Broads in Suffolk in late June, as they tried to swim away from a rigid-hulled inflatable boat loaded with drugs.

Paraguayan police killed a parliamentarian in a violent region of the country during a shootout that erupted in an overnight raid on his house where officers and prosecutors had arrived to search for evidence of his involvement in drug trafficking and money laundering.

In the chaotic first week of the Covid pandemic, El Salvador paid an offshore company US$27 million to provide milk powder for its hungry citizens –– but the shell firm overcharged and under-delivered, pocketing $7 million, a government audit found.

A man was sentenced to 12 years and 6 months for using an encrypted device to supply cocaine, cannabis, and firearms.

A 40-year-old Zambian national, who was apprehended on Sunday after landing at South Africa’s OR Tambo International Airport, has been identified as a key player in a transnational organized crime syndicate involved in kidnapping, ransom, and crystal meth distribution in the country.

Nigerian authorities arrested a man attempting to smuggle 88 wraps of cocaine, weighing 1.7 kilograms, in his stomach from Abuja, the Nigerian capital, to Vietnam.

Police reported that when the driver tried to stop his van from being stolen, the suspect sped off, leaving the victim partially hanging from the passenger door of the vehicle.

Police have identified the mother and three children who died in a tragic Bradford house fire, suspected to be a domestic incident. A 39-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of murder.

David Daintree, 53, was found dead after ambulances and police were called.

The victims were aged between 14 and 16 at the time.

A young girl has been stabbed in a block of flats in Christchurch, Dorset.

Mohammed Akram, 64, denied any wrongdoing but was convicted of nine charges involving the serious sexual and physical abuse of three women across Forth Valley, Glasgow and Edinburgh.

Police in São Paulo have frozen bank accounts holding over a billion dollars in an anti-money laundering operation that highlights the growing use of cryptocurrency by Brazil’s most powerful prison gang...

Nigerian authorities arrested 16 suspects and seized 63 illegal refineries across the country in a week-long operation aimed at combating crude oil theft, which has plagued the oil industry for years.

Michael Franzese had plans of becoming a doctor but ended up running a scam that made him a more successful mob boss than Al Capone