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More than 1,600 people have been arrested following a week-long crackdown on county lines drug gangs.

Britain’s National Crime Agency said the money laundering bust was its biggest in a decade.

Two men in their 20s have been arrested on suspicion of drug-related offences following the death of a woman at a Belfast nightclub.

A gang which smuggled up to £7 billion worth of drugs from the continent over two-a-half years have been jailed.

Fiji’s former prime minister and police chief publicly associated with Zhao Fugang, a China-born businessman and Communist Party representative, even after police warned them that Zhao was suspected of ties to organized crime.

A Netflix reality star has been arrested for attempting to smuggle £150,000 worth of drugs from Thailand.

Jamie Menagh played for Stockport County among other clubs in the north west

A mother has been jailed after exposing her baby daughter to heroin and cocaine before her death from a cardiac arrest.

Former One Direction star Liam Payne, who tragically fell to his death on October 16 in Buenos Aires, allegedly asked a hotel worker for ’seven grams of cocaine’ before his death

Next to a vandalised wire fence opposite HMP Bronzefield in Surrey, 28-year-old Beatrice Auty brushes away tears. The memories of her time inside the jail are too much to bear.

The FBI, CIA, and DEA face legal scrutiny as they invoke Glomar responses—provisions allowing them to withhold confirmation of records to protect privacy and national security—amid requests for information on Nigerian President Bola Tinubu’s alleged ties to drug trafficking.

Tech-savvy organised crime groups profiting from billion-dollar enterprise that is spreading beyond Russian borders

Less than two months after a four-year sentence for wildlife trafficking, a Colombian court has released Fernando Rodríguez Mondragón—a son of the late drug lord Gilberto Rodríguez Orejuela—following a deal with prosecutors.

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.

Four men have been arrested after nearly 400kg of cocaine was found on a fishing boat off the Kent coast.

Michael Shvartsman was convicted of insider trading, while Eric Hannelius settled without admitting or denying guilt. Both men were involved in a company with contracts to track legal marijuana in Florida and other states.

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

Staff at Brook House had warned it was ‘only a matter of time’ before someone died as a result of taking the drug

James Barlow, a Las Vegas resident, was taken into custody by federal law enforcement and sentenced to three years in jail for running a global dark web hallucinogenic mushroom marketplace.

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.

Brooklyn detention center holding 1,200 has been under scrutiny since two fatal stabbings this summer

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.

The chief constable of Greater Manchester Police has said the force’s security has been "tightened up" after an "irredeemably corrupt" detective stole cocaine valued at £400,000 from property stores.