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A British beautician facing decades behind bars after being accused of smuggling cocaine into the US from Mexico has insisted she believed she was only carrying bags of cash across the border.

A dangerous drug with unpredictable effects is being sold to Liverpool teenagers, say city experts.

Spanish police said Wednesday that they had seized 13 tons of cocaine -- the country’s largest-ever haul of the drug -- and made one arrest.

The Mexican Navy said Tuesday it has seized 3.6 tons (about 8,000 pounds) of cocaine aboard a "narco sub" off the Pacific coast which was spotted earlier this week about 153 miles off the resort of Acapulco.

A record 13-ton seizure of cocaine in Spain in mid-October is more evidence that the country has returned as the main entry point into Europe for the drug after Belgium and the Netherlands significantly improved security at their ports.

Two high-ranking members of Italy’s Camorra mafia were arrested in Medellín, Colombia, in a multinational operation against cocaine trafficking.

Coca crops and cocaine production in Colombia increased during 2023, as the government has stopped forced eradication efforts and concentrated on seizures to fight drug trafficking.

Sasha Ellis-Johnson claimed she was helping her partner after he ran up a £2,000 drug debt

Andrew Talbot, 54, took almost £400,000 worth of cocaine from evidence stores before searching police systems for dealers to help him sell the drug.

Organised criminals that smuggled a large amount of cocaine in a shipment of bananas through Portsmouth port have been convicted.

The Caribbean, historically a key region for drug trafficking, has once again become the center of attention with the seizure of a narco-submarine, signaling the use of these types of vessels is potentially becoming a more common tactic for drug shipments in this smuggling route.

Four men accused of trying to smuggle £200m worth of cocaine into the UK have been remanded in custody.

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.

Sarajevo-native Edin “Tito” Gacanin registered the companies in the secrecy havens as he continued to ship cocaine globally, despite being convicted by Dutch courts for narcotics trafficking.

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.

A U.S. court has sentenced former British Virgin Islands (BVI) Prime Minister Andrew Alturo Fahie to more than 11 years in prison for his role in a major cocaine smuggling operation.

The ringleader of an organized crime group that tried to smuggle millions of dollars worth of cocaine into the U.K. via a container of bananas was convicted Wednesday, the National Crime Agency (NCA) reported.

A Montenegrin dubbed the ‘Pirate of the Unknown’ is set to be arraigned Monday in U.S. federal court for allegedly trafficking several tons of Latin American cocaine all over the world onboard container vessels.

The operation began back in 2020 and among others has seen about 1.2 tonnes of cocaine being found on board of a yacht, with an estimated street value of £96 million

As Antwerp and Rotterdam crack down, other ports bear the brunt.

Detectives were able to download telltale software from the homemade, heavy duty drone

Brazil’s Federal Police detained eight individuals on Tuesday as part of a broader operation against drug traffickers who have used private jets to transport cocaine worth billions of Brazilian reals across the continent, as well as to Europe and Africa.

Eight tonnes of cocaine seized and 40 people arrested after four-year investigation led by Spain’s Guardia Civil

A sign on the doorway said “For rent” and the house’s lights were out. But the assault team were convinced a group of armed gang members lurked inside and they were determined to smoke them out.

A Surinamese man, wanted by Interpol for a series of crimes including the smuggling of approximately 450 kg of cocaine by aircraft, was captured last week in São Paulo, Brazilian Federal Police stated.