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Brazil’s Federal Police detained eight individuals on Tuesday as part of a broader operation against drug traffickers who have used private jets to transport cocaine worth billions of Brazilian reals across the continent, as well as to Europe and Africa.

Antoine Kolias invented new branding and said the medicines were a ‘natural remedy’ for erectile dysfunction

Former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez has been sentenced to 45 years in prison and given an $8 million fine by a US judge for drug trafficking offenses.

The leader of a London council has been charged with drug and driving offences after allegedly failing to stop at the scene of an accident.

Luke Waters, 28, was jailed for 10 years and forced to pay back almost £200,000 of the illegal cash - after gloating about his cash and luxury watches on social media

"I turned the lights on and it’s ’Oh my God, 3ft of soil in my bedroom’," Charles Reeves says, still in disbelief, as he shows the BBC his home. "I’m surprised the floors are even withstanding all this stuff."

Ten members of the group have been convicted over the operation, which produced counterfeit versions of medicines such as Xanax.

Eight tonnes of cocaine seized and 40 people arrested after four-year investigation led by Spain’s Guardia Civil

Sierra Leone and Guinea-Bissau have authorized a Swiss-based civil society organization to facilitate chemical testing of a drug that is wreaking havoc in West Africa and has prompted the president of Sierra Leone to declare a national emergency.

Over 3,000 cannabis plants were seized by police

Five Wells governor to take over at scandal-hit HMP Parc in Bridgend, Wales

In the spring of 2024, the Russian Society of Psychiatrists proposed new clinical guidelines for the treatment of pediatric autism.

Europe is facing a growing threat from potent synthetic substances, new drug mixtures, and evolving usage patterns, particularly after the Taliban imposed a ban on opium poppy cultivation, the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA) warned in its latest report published on Tuesday.

A sign on the doorway said “For rent” and the house’s lights were out. But the assault team were convinced a group of armed gang members lurked inside and they were determined to smoke them out.

There’s one harrowing memory that sticks in Michael White’s mind. It was a cold winter’s evening, when his 15-year-old son walked through the door after spending the night with ‘friends.’

A Surinamese man, wanted by Interpol for a series of crimes including the smuggling of approximately 450 kg of cocaine by aircraft, was captured last week in São Paulo, Brazilian Federal Police stated.

Leaked documents from the Prosecutor’s Office show that their vessels, the initials of their containers and the arrival docks of these companies in Europe are mentioned by criminals to speak in code about cocaine shipments and routes.

Official statistics on busts of drug shipments originating in Colombia — the world’s largest cocaine producer by far — are scattershot and hard to find. A leak of prosecutor’s office documents helped reporters fill in some gaps.

Lucy’s school hailed her ’bright, hard-working and well-motivated’

Cocaine dealers Ryan Lawrence and Joshua Goodwin careered into the wall of a council building in Stanley, Co Durham, before police uncovered several bags of cocaine

Men intercepted travelling on fishing boat off Gladstone in what federal police say is one of the state’s largest cocaine busts

A U.S.-based Syrian opposition organization welcomed on Thursday a bill U.S. President Joe Biden signed a day earlier in order to combat the production and trafficking of a potent drug...

A second man has died after what police described as a "bad batch" of heroin was circulated.