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A house was seriously damaged when a suspected drug lab blew up beside a children’s playground in Burnley this afternoon.

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

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.

HMS Trent confiscated half a tonne of the Class A drug from a speed boat south of the Dominican Republic earlier this month, taking its annual total of seizures to more than £550m.

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

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.

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.

ITV News was given exclusive access as the only UK broadcaster to join police trying to tackle pink cocaine on the streets of Ibiza, as George Hancorn reports

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.

Fatal clashes between Turkish criminals in the heroin trade are spreading in Europe, an Observer investigation reveals

Organized crime in Mexico has found the mangroves an ideal, remote spot to hide their synthetic drug laboratories, leaving fishermen in Sinaloa to deal with contamination affecting their homes and livelihoods.

Alleged Sinaloa cartel cofounder Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada appeared Thursday in federal court in Texas for his latest hearing since his arrest a week ago in an intrigue-packed case centered on one of the world’s most powerful and deadly drug trafficking organizations.

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 former Rhode Island resident was convicted in federal court for attempting to traffic more than 400 pounds of illegal narcotics into Canada via an inflatable raft, but beachgoers found his stash and alerted authorities.

Police across Europe, South America, and Africa detained over 200 individuals and seized US$1.6 billion worth of illegal drugs and precursor chemicals during a two-month anti-narcotics operation, Interpol announced on Tuesday.

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.

Mayor of Norwegian capital, Anne Lindboe, says drugs worth up to £570m have entered through the port

A rapist ended up inadvertently drugging himself when his victim clocked his plan to spike her and swapped their drinks around.

Hong Kong authorities announced the successful dismantling of a drug manufacturing facility specializing in ecstasy production and the arrest of its 19-year-old operator.

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

A man has been jailed after his DNA was matched to a blood stain at a storage container where £2.5million worth of cannabis was stored.