All news on the topic: Drug trafficking

Jose Adolfo Macias, a.k.a. “Fito,” was arrested 18 months after going on the run for the second time in his criminal history.

A flashy crime boss was brought down over a murder plot and major cocaine smuggling operation after his designer clothes and tattoos were identified in selfies he posted from Dubai. James Harding, 34, ran a drug empire that raked in £5 million in just 10 weeks.

Initially arrested in October 2023, the French national was scheduled for extradition soon after.

The Archetyp Market, with an estimated €250 million in sales, was dismantled by international law enforcement revealing widespread darknet operations.

Yemeni authorities say the Houthis are playing a major role in regional drug trafficking, turning Yemen into a new hub for the Captagon trade, which the group allegedly uses to finance its military operations.

Tirso ‘TJ’ Dominguez states that Escobar paid him $20 million monthly to fly planes loaded with cocaine.

Ecuadorian court documents acquired by OCCRP detail the internal operations of a drug and money laundering scheme that authorities claim is operated by Dritan Gjika.

Police are investigating whether an aspiring sertanejo singer secretly assisted in managing her brother’s drug operation using a false identity.

Italy’s mafia is turning away from violent turf wars to collaborate in drug trafficking, prostitution rings and money laundering, the national anti-mafia agency (DIA) said in an annual report about the organized crime groups on Tuesday.

A British passenger faces accusations of allegedly trying to smuggle 18kg of cannabis into the UK.

Heathrow airport staff will be deporting foreigners caught smuggling cannabis, according to new stricter rules

Operation RapTor successfully takes down drug, weapons, and counterfeit networks across 10 countries, seizing millions in cash and cryptocurrencies and tons of illicit goods

The arrest of a British tourist for allegedly smuggling £1.2 million worth of a deadly drug has sparked new warnings about the psychoactive substance.

Charlotte May Lee, 21, was detained at the airport after being accused of smuggling £1.15 million pounds worth of cannabis into Sri Lanka in her luggage.

Carlos Lehder, Pablo Escobar’s criminal partner, was arrested in Colombia on charges of drug and arms trafficking, but was released three days later. The court ruled that the sentence had expired.

Authorities arrest an alleged Ukrainian ringleader behind a transcontinental cocaine trafficking scheme involving shipments from Honduras to Kyiv.

Multiple prisons in France have been the target of automatic weapon fire and burning vans and cars.

Iraqi forces are intensifying their efforts to combat Captagon smuggling along the Syrian-Iraqi border, following a recent seizure that comes after last week’s interception of an attempt to smuggle 30,000 Captagon tablets in the same area, Al-Baghuz.

Authorities crack down on a ’Ndrangheta-style gang accused of committing crimes across Germany and Italy, including fraud, drug trafficking, and money laundering...

Several ’Turkish’ barber shops across the UK have been raided by authorities over fears they could be laundering drug money.

A man who co-ordinated a multi-million-pound fake medicines operation, including counterfeit versions of the powerful anti-anxiety pill Xanax, has today (Wednesday 27 March 2025) been jailed for eight years.

Craig Anthony led an organized crime gang that transported kilograms of cocaine from Liverpool