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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.

Grant Lester was caught after an undercover police officer became suspicious of his car.

Seven people were arrested when the huge haul was discovered after a bag went through an X-ray machine and the alarm was raised at Manchester Airport.

The network reeled in monthly profits of up to 18 million Ukrainian hryvnia ($431,923) from the production and selling of 60 kg of amphetamine to 18 drug labs nation-wide.

Sporting gloves and a red ribbon to ward off evil, Ecuadoran police raiding a drug den apprehensively inspect an altar to Santa Muerte -- a Mexican "death saint" adopted by local gangs as their own talisman.

Mexican drug cartels are readying terrifying plans to strike back at US Border Patrol agents as President Donald Trump ramps up his crackdown on immigration.

Activists from WalkFree, an international human rights group that aims to end modern slavery, estimate that roughly 1.9 million people in Russia are being kept in some form of bondage.

President Donald Trump is to send American criminals to El Salvador’s notorious mega-prisons in a breakthrough migrant deal.

Record-breaking cocaine seizures in Portugal in 2024 have cemented the country’s status as a crucial axis in drug trafficking routes into Europe.