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The children mistook the substance for sherbet and consumed the Class A drug. One of them then reported to a teacher that they had been given a package with a ’bad taste’, which led to a police call.

Bristol-based nurse said she was ‘jet lagged’ when asked if she had taken drugs

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

Prosecutors allege suspects spiked victims’ drinks with drugs at venues in Kortrijk between 2021 and 2024

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

China slammed Canada’s condemnation on Thursday, saying it acted ’in accordance with the law’

Casualty and Holby City star Amanda Mealing has confessed to driving her car under the influence of drugs and crashing, resulting in a serious injury to a nurse at the wheel.

Massive drug bust uncovers Ecuador-Europe drug trafficking network, leading to seizure of 73 tonnes of drugs and 36 arrests.

Hugo Carvajal Barrios, who served as Venezuela’s military intelligence director, is scheduled to go to trial in the U.S. in June on charges of "narco-terrorism."

A criminal group active in northern Ukraine is accused of manufacturing and distributing psychotropic drugs, earning over $120,000 a month via a nationwide trafficking network.

A key member involved in the Aryan Brotherhood fentanyl trafficking case was sentenced to fourteen years. Authorities identified the defendant as the "transporter, pill maker, and enforcer for the leader of a drug distribution cell."

A boy of eight leans against a wall and takes furtive drags from a vape as he chats to an older mate.

Sources have located Johannes Leijdekkers in the West African country since at least December 2022.

The killer of nine-year-old Olivia Pratt-Korbel has been busted in prison for allegedly dealing drugs and having an illegal mobile phone.

Michael Steele, 81, is scheduled to be released from prison in a few weeks, even though he continues to assert that he is the victim of a miscarriage of justice regarding the 1995 murders of three drug dealers in Rettendon, Essex.

A recent U.S. sanctions notice has put the spotlight on an alleged narcotics ring from the small Baltic country, which purportedly includes a previously-convicted trafficker dubbed a “global kingpin” of the trade.

Footage released by police in the Mexican state of Tabasco show the moment sledgehammer-wielding officers attempt to smash through the walls of a teen’s concrete tomb.

Two men had their luck turn for the worse when they stopped to ask cops for directions – unaware they had drug-sniffing dogs.

The son-in-law of a Mexican drug lord pleaded guilty this week to a scheme that used violence and threats to fix prices and control the transnational used-car market at the U.S.-Mexico border.

Britain’s most prolific rapist could serve the rest of his 40-year sentence in Indonesia after officials began talks on sending him home.

A 16-year-old girl has been drugged, beaten and raped for a month in a warehouse in Haiti, amid a massive 1,000% surge of sexual violence against children as the crime-ridden island is taken over by gangs.

A baby-faced drugs baron and his glamourous ‘gangster’s moll’ are facing years behind bars.

A woman in her 40s was also arrested on suspicion of money laundering and released under investigation.