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Super-strength drugs linked to hundreds of deaths have been found in samples of fake medicines bought across the UK, the BBC can reveal.

Experts call for consumption rooms and wider testing of substances, as number of people dying hits new high

Ex-Chelsea and England footballer Frank Lampard was left near-speechless after he was informed that pictures of his face had been discovered in a £38million drugs bust in Australia.

Ashley Malloy was in a relationship with inmate John Mack who was serving a four-year sentence for drug offences - and when officers raided her locker, they found cocaine and heroin

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.

Thomas Kavanagh, 57, enlisted two associates to help with the scheme while he was in prison. He wanted the National Crime Agency to find a weapons stash in an effort to influence his sentencing in a multimillion-pound drug case.

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

A drugs gang who used children to peddle heroin and cocaine from the Midlands across the UK have been locked up for more than 29 years. The ’complex network of dealers’ supplied their stash of drugs using the AB Line and Jay Line.

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.

Cellphone chats have become death sentences in the continuing, bloody factional war inside Mexico’s Sinaloa drug cartel.

Chillingly the man who shone a light onto the murder-for-hire plot warns scores of Brits may not know they are on a ’kill list’ too...

Two criminals who sold Class A drugs and firearms have been jailed following a National Crime Agency investigation.

A man from Northern Ireland has been charged with drugs offences after £325,000 worth of cannabis was seized at Belfast Port.

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

Teenager alleged to have been recruited by prisoner who later called police to report him over killing of taxi driver

A prolific drug gang leader who compared himself to notorious Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar has been arrested.

A judge described a drug dealer as ‘not very good at it’ after he was caught on CCTV selling outside a casino.

Police have released an urgent warning after medication used to euthanize animals has been stolen from a car.

Andrew Talbot used police systems to look up dealers to help him sell the drugs

A 30-year-old woman, described as a "drug mule" by South African police, was carrying 68 "cocaine bullets" in her stomach with an estimated weight of 850g when she was detained at Johannesburg’s OR Tambo airport, according to police.

A man has been charged with drug smuggling after allegedly trying to sneak £1million worth of cannabis into the UK.

Larry Barnett junior was described as the ’ringleader’ behind a lucrative operation to soak fake legal letters in the class B drug

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