Crime

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.

Neil Selkirk, 54, was found in a park in Gateshead with injuries consistent with having been assaulted. He died at the scene and a murder investigation was launched.

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

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.

Paraguayan police killed a parliamentarian in a violent region of the country during a shootout that erupted in an overnight raid on his house where officers and prosecutors had arrived to search for evidence of his involvement in drug trafficking and money laundering.

In the chaotic first week of the Covid pandemic, El Salvador paid an offshore company US$27 million to provide milk powder for its hungry citizens –– but the shell firm overcharged and under-delivered, pocketing $7 million, a government audit found.

A man was sentenced to 12 years and 6 months for using an encrypted device to supply cocaine, cannabis, and firearms.

A 40-year-old Zambian national, who was apprehended on Sunday after landing at South Africa’s OR Tambo International Airport, has been identified as a key player in a transnational organized crime syndicate involved in kidnapping, ransom, and crystal meth distribution in the country.

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.

Police reported that when the driver tried to stop his van from being stolen, the suspect sped off, leaving the victim partially hanging from the passenger door of the vehicle.

Police have identified the mother and three children who died in a tragic Bradford house fire, suspected to be a domestic incident. A 39-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of murder.

David Daintree, 53, was found dead after ambulances and police were called.

The victims were aged between 14 and 16 at the time.

A young girl has been stabbed in a block of flats in Christchurch, Dorset.

Mohammed Akram, 64, denied any wrongdoing but was convicted of nine charges involving the serious sexual and physical abuse of three women across Forth Valley, Glasgow and Edinburgh.

Police in São Paulo have frozen bank accounts holding over a billion dollars in an anti-money laundering operation that highlights the growing use of cryptocurrency by Brazil’s most powerful prison gang...

Nigerian authorities arrested 16 suspects and seized 63 illegal refineries across the country in a week-long operation aimed at combating crude oil theft, which has plagued the oil industry for years.

Michael Franzese had plans of becoming a doctor but ended up running a scam that made him a more successful mob boss than Al Capone

Two men stole high-end watches worth £120,000 from a luxury jewellers before making it away on foot.

Singapore charged two bankers Thursday for their alleged role in abetting clients responsible for a US$2.2 billion money laundering ring, marking the first time that criminal charges have been laid against finance professionals since the scandal came to light.

Rex William Henry Clark, 18, and Sofija Vinogradova, 19, charged over suspected extreme rightwing activity

A multiagency force of federal and state authorities in Brazil dismantled communication towers and illegal cellphone shops, as organized crime embraces technology to further its criminal pursuits.

IT is every parent’s worst nightmare that their child will go off the rails in their school years.

Joe Metheny was convicted of killing two women in 1996, but later claimed to have killed a total of 10 people. He would sometimes turn his victims into burgers and sell them

David Saynor, who picked up girls from school and gave them alcohol and cigarettes, jailed for 24 years