All news on the topic: Drugs

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Former detective sentenced to 19 years for stealing 4kg of cocaine from work to sell in Manchester
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.
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Why cellphone chats have become death sentences in cartel stronghold in Mexico
Cellphone chats have become death sentences in the continuing, bloody factional war inside Mexico’s Sinaloa drug cartel.
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Murky world of ’hitmen for hire’ sites revealed, featuring a ’kill list’ individual who paid $50,000 to inject his ex with heroin
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...
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Operation Venetic: Two firearms and drugs dealers jailed
Two criminals who sold Class A drugs and firearms have been jailed following a National Crime Agency investigation.
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County Antrim man charged with cannabis smuggling in NCA investigation
A man from Northern Ireland has been charged with drugs offences after £325,000 worth of cannabis was seized at Belfast Port.
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£40 million worth of cocaine found in inflatable boat on UK beach; six arrested over 500kg haul
A £40million stash of cocaine hidden on an inflatable boat off the West Sussex coast has been uncovered by investigators.
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Drug smugglers convicted for shipping large cocaine haul hidden in banana boxes through Portsmouth port
Organised criminals that smuggled a large amount of cocaine in a shipment of bananas through Portsmouth port have been convicted.
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Marseille drug wars resurface as a 14-year-old boy is allegedly hired as a hitman
Teenager alleged to have been recruited by prisoner who later called police to report him over killing of taxi driver
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An East London drug dealer who boasted about being ’like Pablo Escobar’ has been caught
A prolific drug gang leader who compared himself to notorious Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar has been arrested.
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A judge mocked a drug dealer caught on CCTV for "not being very good at it"
A judge described a drug dealer as ‘not very good at it’ after he was caught on CCTV selling outside a casino.
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Alert over animal euthanasia drugs that may have been sold to the public
Police have released an urgent warning after medication used to euthanize animals has been stolen from a car.
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Manchester detective found guilty after stealing cocaine and giving it to dealers
Andrew Talbot used police systems to look up dealers to help him sell the drugs
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X-ray reveals ’cocaine bullets’ found in stomach of woman stopped at airport
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.
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Dad allegedly attempted to smuggle £1,000,000 worth of cannabis into the UK using a child’s suitcase
A man has been charged with drug smuggling after allegedly trying to sneak £1million worth of cannabis into the UK.
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Notorious criminal used garden shed in scheme to smuggle Spice into prisons via legal letters
Larry Barnett junior was described as the ’ringleader’ behind a lucrative operation to soak fake legal letters in the class B drug
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Former Arsenal player Jay Emmanuel-Thomas has been charged in connection with a £600,000 drug importation plot
Jay Emmanuel-Thomas, who plays for Greenock Morton in the Scottish Championship, has been charged by police for allegedly trying to smuggle cannabis into the UK
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Men charged with drug smuggling remanded in custody
Four men accused of trying to smuggle £200m worth of cocaine into the UK have been remanded in custody.
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Suspected drug lab explodes near children’s playground
A house was seriously damaged when a suspected drug lab blew up beside a children’s playground in Burnley this afternoon.
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Fake Ozempic: Criminal groups are using batch numbers to distribute dangerous weight loss drugs
In December, Drew, a 36-year-old man from San Antonio, Texas, drove more than 250 miles (400 km) to Mexico to buy cheap Ozempic to help him lose weight. Going home, he checked the pens.
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Five Nigerian women arrested in cross-border drug trafficking bust
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).
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Amount of cannabis seized at UK airports triples in under a year
National Crime Agency says overproduction of drug in countries where it has been legalised may be behind rise
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How Mexican cartel kingpin’s ’film noir’ arrest could bring down ’scandal-riddled’ party
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
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Spain and Colombia dismantle cocaine processing lab; 28 arrested
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.
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Royal Navy intercepts £40 million worth of cocaine from Caribbean smugglers
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.
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Norway’s border guards on the front line in the fight against a ’cocaine tsunami
The nordic nation has become a gateway to Europe for South American drug traffickers