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Laura Zuniga, 23, and seven men were detained at a military checkpoint in central Mexico on Monday. Police found assault rifles and $55,000 in cash in the luxury vehicles they had been driving.Mexican beauty queen arrested in the company of heavily armed, suspected drug traffickers has been stripped of her Hispanic American beauty title, pageant organizers in Bolivia told local media on Saturday.Zuniga was ordered jailed on Friday for a further 40...
12 men were sentenced for conspiracy to supply Class A drugs throughout east London.Mobile phones used by the gangs to take orders from drug users received more than 30,000 calls in less than two months, Snaresbrook Crown Court heard.Seven of the men were members of a gang calling themselves Box, four were from a gang known as Don, and the final defendant was part of a gang nicknamed Laguna by police because of their choice of transport.The court heard that all of the gangs used high-value hire cars as a means of demonstrating their wealth.They...
Cocaine worth €175,000 has been seized at Dublin Airport.Around 2.5kg of cocaine had been concealed in the back support of two haversacks belonging to a 32-year-old man who had travelled from Santiago, Chile.He was arrested and questioned by gardaí at Dublin Airport, and is expected to appear in court today.Customs officers at the airport have seized drugs with a street value of approximately €8m so far in 20...
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Daniell Anderson, will remain free on bail until a hearing in January to see if the charges against him will be tossed out of court based on allegations that arresting officers used excessive force when taking him into custody.Officially, Mr. Anderson was found guilty of attempting to kill Const. Donald Murray and discharging a firearm with intent to injure Const. Curtis Penner. He was not found guilty of trying to kill Penner.Mr. Anderson had no comment after being ushered out of the courthouse by sheriff's officers.About 40 people -- including...
Singaporean, who accepted free air tickets from her 'benefactors' to seek medical treatment overseas, was duped into becoming a drug courier, reported China Press. She was arrested at an international airport in Sweden for possessing 5kg of heroin in her luggage. The drug is said to be of high quality and worth RM3.3 million (S$1.39 million) in the market. The victim, who was reportedly suffering from haemorrhoids, had first befriended her Nigerian benefactors in Kuala Lumpur several months ago.The Nigerians then agreed to sponsor her air tickets...
Former England all-rounder Chris Lewis was remanded in custody on Wednesday after being charged with attempting to smuggle cocaine with an estimated street value of 200,000 pounds into Britain.The 40-year-old was arrested on December 8 after border control officers at London's Gatwick airport found four kilogrammes (nine pounds) of the illegal drug in liquid form in fruit tins in baggage that had arrived from the Caribbean island of St Lucia.Lewis...
Ishmael Butler, 26, was arrested in the city's Union Street on suspicion of selling drugs in September. About £18,000-worth of heroin and crack cocaine was later recovered from his flat. He said he had been threatened by his former gang and told to help. Butler, from Birmingham, was jailed for 44 months. He admitted being concerned in drug supply at Glasgow High Court. Butler was stopped by plain clothes officers who suspected he was selling drugs after he was spotted speaking to a homeless person. I accept you found it difficult to break away...
Mexican army has seized 11 airplanes from drug traffickers in the northwestern state of Sonora, the Prosecutor General of the Republic (PGR) said Wednesday.Soldiers seized the planes Tuesday in Navojoa municipality, near the California Gulf and 1,500km northwest of Mexico City, and also took control of the landing runway located in the community of Moroncarit in Sonora, the PGR said. Military intelligence staff are investigating the pilots who could be linked to drug trafficking gangs in Mexico's northern states, according to National Defense Ministry...
Drugs squad and Customs officers swooped on two trucks in Dublin Port after they came off a ferry from the UK. The lorries had travelled from Amsterdam. The two men, aged 55 and 39, were arrested after 30kg (66lb) of the drug was found hidden among flowers in the back of one of the vehicles. It is believed the authorities intercepted the trucks after receiving information on suspected drug trafficking through the port.The intelligence operation involved the Garda National Bureau of Criminal Investigation, the National Drugs Unit and Revenue's Customs...
U.S. Customs and Border Protection arrested a 21-year-old Panamanian as he tried to walk across Gateway International Bridge with four pounds of cocaine strapped to his body, officials said.The incident took place 6:25 a.m. Monday, according to a government press release. The suspect, who is a resident of Brooklyn, New York, was sent to secondary inspection point."Under further inspection of the gentleman, the officers noticed he had cocaine strapped to his body," CBP spokesman Eduardo Perez said.The investigation led to 15 packages containing...
Police in Peru say they have seized 3 tons of cocaine mixed into a shipment of guano bound for Spain.A four-month investigation led to the seizure at a warehouse in the capital of Lima, anti-drug police Col. Cesar Cortijo said Monday.Cortijo said the drugs belonged to a trafficking ring that smuggled cocaine out of the country mixed with other products. Four Peruvians and a Colombian were arrested.Police delayed announcing the Dec. 4 raid because it was initially impossible to calculate how much cocaine was mixed with the guano, the nitrogen- and...
Police in the Falkland Islands said nearly $1.5 million worth of cocaine disappeared from a double-locked cell at a police station.Officers at the Port Stanley station, where the 29 packets of cocaine were being stored after they were confiscated from a fishing boat in October, said the two suspects arrested in connection with the raid were jailed at the police station but they were allowed free use of a corridor at night time that allowed access to the cell holding the drugs, The Times of London reported Monday.A court was told one of the suspects...
Coast Guard and Navy personnel offloaded more than 11 metric tons of cocaine from the USS Samuel B. Roberts (FFG 58) Friday morning in Mayport, Fla.The 498 bales of cocaine consisted of cocaine seized by various Coast Guard and Navy units from separate cases in the Eastern Pacific Ocean and Caribbean Sea. The drugs were offloaded and transferred to law enforcement personnel on scene.Law enforcement officials will possibly keep a portion of the drugs for future prosecution and the remaining cocaine will be destroy...
Iran hanged three convicted drug traffickers in a prison in the southeastern city of Zahedan on Saturday, the Fars news agency reported.Two of the men, identified only as P.D. and M.M., had been found guilty of smuggling 36.5 kilograms and 40 kilograms of heroin respectively, the news agency said.The third man, identified as V.A.R., was convicted of smuggling 15 kilograms of opium and 14.5 kilograms of heroin.The latest hangings took to at least 223 the number of executions in Iran this year, according to an AFP count.Amnesty International says...
Sydney MAXIMUM-security prisoner will be charged for allegedly masterminding a major drug distribution operation from a smuggled mobile phone in his jail cell.Incredible details have emerged after more than 100 police swarmed into Sydney’s southwest today and swooped on a dozen houses, as part of a major investigation into drug trafficking, The Daily Telegraph reports. The co-ordinated raids also included a number of search warrants being executed in Victoria. They are targeting people allegedly on the outside doing the bidding of the caged kingpin....
Discovered more than 140 pounds of cocaine concealed inside concrete decorative pedestals being shipped from Mexico through the Port of Los Angeles to Australia, Schoch said. BEST officers alerted Australia's Federal Police and that country's Customs Service, which assisted in the investigation that led to the arrest of three Mexican nationals who were charged with drug trafficking."They packed 64 kilos inside the pedestals, then poured concrete around them," Schoch said. "The pedestals were packed inside one of thousands of shipping containers...
Angus McDonald drug runner has pointed the finger at three of the people he says were involved with him in a plot to import millions of pounds worth of drugs into South Cumbria.Angus McDonald, 44, was the first prosecution witness in the trial of two men and a woman accused of helping to launder some of the £35m made from importing cannabis into Windermere.One of the men, John James “Jim” Nightingale, is also accused of being one of those who conspired to import the drug from Spain.Prosecution witness McDonald, of Craig Walk, Windermere, has already...
Lucky and Flo, black Labrador Retrievers, have been trained to detect 'optical discs' by scent. Their success has meant that Malaysian organised crime gangs have put a price on their heads. The dogs' talents emerged as a campaign said by organisers to be the largest ever collaboration on anti-piracy in the UK was officially launched yesterday. The pilot initiative, involving the Metropolitan Police, the Motion Picture Association and the UK Film Council among others, aims to make London a "fake free zone" by the time of the 2012 Olympics. Higher...
600 cannabis plants with a street value upwards of £500,000 were discovered after police raided the property on Yarm Lane.Officers from Stockton Drugs Unit and Stockton Neighbourhood Support Team swooped on the premises as part of an intelligence-led operation.Landlord Shakil Hussain, 32, said he had been renting out the flat - which is above a separate shop unit - to a tenant he believed was from the Far East.He said: “I was shocked to find this going on after police told me about the raid. I had no idea.“The flat was seriously damaged, I don’t...
Five men were charged in Malmö on Friday for transporting 19 kilogrammes of heroin, half of which was confiscated in Serbia.The heroin taken in Serbia was being transported to Sweden by automobile. The rest was found by police during a raid at a bus garage in Norrköping in central Sweden.According to prosecutor Kristina Ehrenborg Staffas, most of the drug was headed for the Nordic mark...
Canadian authorities seized over 9 million contraband cigarettes and arrested 46 people, including some North Country residents during a smuggling crackdown in the Cornwall area.According to officials, over 5,000 pounds of tobacco, 9.7 million cigarettes, and 50 cartons of flavored cigars were confiscated, along with 43 vehicles seized.Of the 46 people arrested, 8 were listed as Americans. According to the Watertown Daily Times, the as-yet unidentified people include residents of Hogansburg, Akwesasne and Rooseveltown.The 12-day enforcement blitz...
Bond has been set at $500,000 for a Texas Department of Public Safety trooper charged with possession of 26 kilograms of a controlled substance (cocaine) with intent to distribute.During a Wednesday morning hearing, U.S. Magistrate Felix Recio set bond on 35-year-old Jesus Rafael Larrazolo.Larrazolo was arrested 10 a.m. Saturday in the parking lot of Best Buy as he was loading his car with cocaine, Brownsville police said, adding he had just received the cocaine from another man, who fled the scene.Brownsville police were in the area conducting...
Four men have been ordered held without bond on charges they distributed heroin to dozens of young people in the Centreville area.The men are among ten people charged last week in a heroin distribution ring in northern Virginia that police say was responsible for at least three deaths.According to court records, many of the deaths involved current and former students of Westfield High School. Nine people identified in a federal complaint charging them with conspiracy to distribute heroin are all aged 19 to 22.None of the defendants spoke during...
Kevin Hiebert serving a life sentence in a Greek prison for drug smuggling is now considered an international fugitive after he vanished last week after nine years in custody, the Winnipeg Free Press has learned.Kevin Hiebert, 35, had been pleading with the Canadian government to intervene in his case and arrange a prison transfer that would allow him to return to home soil. He doesn't deny criminal responsibility, but says he has served enough time...
Police have seized 4 kg (9 lbs) of cocaine near Moscow's Domodedovo Airport, the largest local cocaine haul so far this year, a police spokesman said on Monday.Police found the drugs in a Lexus-330 car in which a Chechen man and woman were travelling, along with a Latvian man. The car was stopped for a check on the Domodedovo highway, 43 km south of Moscow"During the search, police found a bag in the trunk containing white powder. Tests identified the powder as cocaine. The total weight of the drugs was 3.7 k...
Police capture key drug suspectEduardo Arellano Felix, an original member of a notorious cartel, is nabbed after a shootout in Tijua...
Thai woman was sentenced to 14 years in prison Wednesday for trying to smuggle 500 grams of cocaine into the country early this year, media reports said. The West Java Banten's Tanggerang district court found Thitirat Charoensuk, 24, guilty for violating the country's tough anti-narcotic laws. In addition to handing down a 14-year jail sentence, the court also ordered the defendant to pay a fine of 60 million rupiah (5,330 dollars), chief judge Haryono said in the court ruling, the state-run Antara news agency reported. In previous court hearings,...
Eight people were arrested in south London and two women and 10 men were arrested in Teesside on suspicion of conspiracy to supply controlled drugs.The raids follow a two-and-a-half-year investigation into members of alleged crime gangs based in north Kent and Billingham in Teesside, who are believed to have smuggled drugs into the UK from Spain and other European countries via France.The operation was co-ordinated by Kent Police, which mobilised about 90 officers across three police forces.One of those arrested in south London is being questioned...
Philip Doo (52), Christopher Wiggins (42) and David Mufford (44) were brought before a special sitting of Clonakilty District Court on Saturday night amid tight security. A force of up to 30 gardaí, including detectives armed with Uzi submachine guns, surrounded the courthouse.The three men, all from Britain, were charged that on November 5th, 2008, on the vessel Dances with Waves , a ship not registered in any country or territory, they had possession...
The 60-foot sloop 'Dances With Waves', detained off the coast of Ireland last Friday with over 1,800kg of cocaine on board, was apparently doomed to arrest from almost the minute it left the Caribbean.Suspicions over 'Dances With Waves' mounted when she was detected in waters off Trinidad & Tobago. Just 17 months ago, the catamaran 'Lucky Day', whose 1,554kg cocaine shipment was seized in Dunlough Bay in west Cork, began her transatlantic journey...
Nigerian visitor stood trial on Sunday in the Criminal Court of First Instance for possessing drugs for trafficking.The 37-year-old defendant, in detention now, was caught at the Dubai International Airport on September 3 with 96 capsules of cocaine in his possession. A customs inspector stated in the interrogations that while on duty at the airport, they suspected the accused so they referred him to the inspection room.“The scan on his stomach showed strange particles inside, which turned out to be capsules containing drugs,” the witness said....
Police say they seized more than half a ton of cocaine hidden in the hold of a river barge near Brazil's Amazon jungle city of Manaus.Police say the 528 kilograms (1,200 pounds) of cocaine was produced in Peru and that its final destination was Europe. It was the biggest drug seizure so far this year in the region.Police say drug traffickers from Peru and Colombia are increasingly using the tributaries of the Amazon river to transport the drug to Manaus, and from there to Europe or the United States.Also on Friday, federal police seized 11 tons...
Tests are to begin on cocaine worth an estimated £406m seized off the south-west coast of Ireland. They are expected to confirm the haul as the country's biggest ever drugs seizure. Over one-and-a-half tonnes of cocaine were found on a 60ft yacht stormed by Irish authorities 200 miles at sea on Wednesday night. The yacht, which had been tracked from the Caribbean, arrived at Castletownbere, County Cork, on Friday. The haul is expected to eclipse a seizure made last year in Dunlough Bay, west Cork, as the biggest ever in Irish territories. The drugs...
Judiciary Police arrested seven men, from Argentina, Brazil and Guinea, at Lisbon Airport last week after authorities found over 60,000 individual doses of cocaine in their possession.The men were being used as drug ‘mules’ and hid the drugs in their clothes and in secret compartments of their suitcases. Four of them hid the cocaine in their bodies and spent several days in hospital under medical supervision. They were all aged between 26 and 56 years of age and their purpose was to transport cocaine and sell it in Spain, Portugal and Italy.The...
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Border officers discovered the drugs on Oct. 22 while searching a marine container bound for Ontario from Pakistan. The container was identified by the targeting unit that examines the manifests of all containers arriving in the Port of Halifax and identifies those requiring full physical inspection.Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) announced today that its officers at the Port of Halifax have seized over 27 kilos of heroin with an estimated...
Three days into the job, he is killed by 25 gunmen. This happened hours after the a smuggling tunnel was discovered running from Tecate, Mexico to the United States. No ties have actually been made to the tunnel and the Police Chiefs' murder, but one can draw logical conclusions that is the reason, the owner of the tunnel lost not only the tunnel but 5 million in marij More..uana stored the...
Four crewmen from a semisubmarine captured in June pleaded guilty today to federal drug charges.The crewmen were aboard the third semisub interdicted this year. The 50- to 60-foot vessel was spotted June 16 by a Marine patrol unit in the eastern Pacific northwest of the Ecuador-Colombia border.By the time the Coast Guard arrived, the sub's crew members were in the water and the vessel was sinking, a federal prosecutor has said. Crew members later told investigators they were instructed to scuttle the vessel after they spotted an airplane circling...
Daniel Barerra,aka The Madman.The Madman Barerra has become one of the two powerful drugs traffickers in the country, moving multi-ton shipments of cocaine every month. He has made alliances with the powerful Marxist rebels of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (Farc), which supply him with much of the coca base he processes into cocaine. Barerra is known to move through the eastern plains of Colombia and into Venezuela, where he often bases...
Cambodian court has sentenced a Taiwanese man to 22 years in jail for trying to smuggle heroin out of the country.Judge Chhay Kong at Phnom Penh Municipal Court says he sentenced Liao Ichun after finding him guilty of trying to smuggle 240 grams of the drug into Taiwan.A number of Taiwanese nationals have been detained and jailed for trying to smuggle heroin through the airport in the Cambodian capital over the past year.Although drug arrests have increased, Cambodia is becoming an increasingly popular trafficking point for methamphetamine and...
Europe is being flooded by smuggled Russian-made cigarettes worth at least $1 billion a year, an international investigation has discovered. * * * The new underground smoking trade involves only one brand, Jin Ling, which is turning up in more cities and countries across Europe every month. Jin Ling, virtually unknown to the authorities three years ago, has grown so rapidly that law enforcement officials say it now rivals Marlboro as the top smuggled...
Anchorage resident Bret W. Hendren, 46, was charged with helping the leader of a drug- trafficking outfit, Thomas Ranes, conceal the source of $93,000 in cash by using it as a down payment on a motor home and trailer, prosecutors said. Ranes gave Hendren the cash in $5,000 increments; in one case the cash smelled of marijuana, prosecutors said. Prosecutors say Hendren took a total of about $150,000 in cash from Ranes, who is serving a 30-year sentence for his role in the operation. Hendren is facing up to 20 years in prison at his sentencing Feb....
Danielle Haylor, 29, from Squirrel Close, Langley Green, denies attempting to supply the Class A drug to convicted armed robber Tim Cole.She also denies possessing 23 tablets of diazepam, a Class C drug better known as Valium, which is illegal without a prescription.Prosecutors say she posted a book to Cole in Lewes Prison, with 3.17g heroin hidden inside the spine, in January last year.A jury at Hove Trial Centre was told that the heroin was 40...
Drug agents from the Guyana Police Force are anxiously waiting to examine the bodily contents of a female American to confirm that she did ingest cocaine in an attempt to smuggle the drug to her home country.The 23-year old woman was nabbed at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport, Timehri on Tuesday while she was an outgoing passenger to New York.According to a senior police official, an x-ray showed a foreign substance which is suspected to be cocaine in the woman’s stomach.The American is at present a patient at the Georgetown Public Hospital...
Fifteen Afghans may face the death penalty in the United Arab Emirates for smuggling 202 kg (445 lb) of heroin hidden in the fuel tanks of trucks, newspapers reported on Thursday.Prosecutors in the emirate of Sharjah sought the death penalty against the group who are accused of smuggling the drugs worth $10.9 million into the Gulf Arab state, the daily Khaleej Times said.Three of the suspects, who operated a business importing fruits and food as a cover, are still at lar...
Customs officers at the Haditha border crossing in Qurayat foiled an attempt to smuggle nearly one-and-a-half million Captagon pills into the country during the Eid Al-Fitr holidays. Zayed bin Atallah Al-Zayed, the director of Haditha Customs, said the crossing point witnessed heavy traffic during the holidays with more than 35,000 vehicles carrying about 110,000 passengers leaving the Kingdom and 38,000 vehicles with some 150,000 passengers arriving from neighboring countries.“Our officers deployed in full force to meet the pressure, which is...
Tel Aviv post office clerk and her husband were detained Monday night, along with another individual, on suspicion of importing three kgs of cocaine from Peru to Israel, and their custody was extended by seven days. Ten days ago, German customs authorities discovered the package, en route from Peru, containing the drugs, which were hidden among dozens of children's toys. Advertisement The German officials noticed that the package was destined for Israel, and notified their Israeli counterparts. Israeli customs authorities transferred the package...
When the pilot of a Colombian drug-smuggling plane landed at a clandestine airstrip in the vast Amazon rainforest, his every move was being watched from high up in the sky.Guided by a high-tech spy-plane circling thousands of feet above the clouds, Brazilian police arrested the pilot minutes later and confiscated 300 kg of cocaine. Police hope the bust, which took place several weeks ago, will soon allow it to lock up an entire international drug gang.In the face of growing international pressure to better preserve the Amazon, Brazil is increasingly...
Four people have been charged with drug trafficking offences after £1.2 million worth of cocaine was seized during a raid on a cruise ship. Customs officers swooped on P and O’s luxury ship Arcadia as it docked in Southampton at 6.30am yesterday and arrested seven people. Four of those arrested had a total of 30 kilos of cocaine strapped to their bodies, it was discovered. Four have now been charged with attempting to smuggle drugs. They are expected...
Cocaine with an estimated street value of €161,000, has been seized by customs officers at Dublin Airport.The drugs were discovered when officers stopped a 44-year-old Dutch man and searched his bags.The 2.3kg package of the drugs was concealed in the back support of a haversack, compressed in plastic packaging.The man had arrived on a flight from Amsterdam having previously travelled from Quito in Ecuador.He was arrested and handed over to the Garda Drugs Unit in Santry for questioning and is due to appear in Dublin District Court lat...
Suspected Russian arms dealer detained in Thailand said his arrest and trial had been arranged by the United States because he refused to become an American spy. Viktor Bout, 41, was arrested in March in Bangkok during a joint police operation led by agents from the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA). The second hearing in his case in a Thai court started on Friday. In an interview published Friday in Kommersant, a Russian business daily,...
man is due to appear in court on Monday after police seized £50,000 worth of cocaine in Fife. Fife Constabulary said the 21-year-old man, from Glenrothes, was arrested in Inverkeithing on Friday after being caught with the drugs. He is expected to appear at Dunfermline Sheriff Court. A spokesman for the force said the arrest was part of its commitment to Fife residents that it would target drug deali...
Three drug smugglers were killed and a policeman was wounded in a shootout with Saudi police in the southern province of Asir, according to an official spokesman of the Drug Combating Department.Maj. Ibrahim Abu Hulayel said on Thursday that one of the smugglers killed in the shooting was the gang leader. He said the incident took place on Wednesday after police surrounded a house in Asir province where suspected smugglers were hiding. He said that police confiscated 71 kg of hashish that remained after the smugglers set fire to their stash. “The...
Federal authorities Wednesday announced indictments against the alleged leaders of six drug distribution rings charged with transporting cocaine and methamphetamine for one of Mexico's largest drug cartelsThirty-five people face smuggling and conspiracy charges in what authorities described as a trafficking network based in the Imperial Valley. About $20 million in drugs and cash were seized during the 18-month investigation, according to federal prosecutors.They said the alleged traffickers are linked to the Sina- loa cartel, which has long controlled...
Cocaine with an estimated street value of $7 million was seizedat the Freeport Container Port, marking the second time in less than a month that a big drug bust has been made at that facility.According to police reports late yesterday, acting on information they received, a team of Bahamian and Inter-national Law Enforcement personnel – with the assistance of Container Port agents – conducted a search of a container and discovered the large quantity of cocaine concealed inside a compartment of a machine.The drugs, weighing over 650 pounds was en...
Three suspects from mainland province Liaoning who allegedly sold illicit drugs to prostitutes in Macau were apprehended by the Judiciary Police (PJ) yesterday.The narcotics division received a report on Sunday that drug activity would be conducted near a hotel in Nape. Police surveillance was in place afterwards and until midnight the "target" was sighted and then was followed by police to a hotel lobby, PJ spokesman Chan Kin Hong said.Mr Chan said the man, surnamed Sun, 27, might have noticed he was being followed and thus dropped some tissue...
Organised Crime Brigade (ECO) in collaboration with the Central Operative Unit (UCO) smashed what a Guardia Civil spokesman called ;one of the most important crime networks in Spain; last week. In an operation dubbed Centry-Paris, 44 people were arrested in Malaga, Algeciras, Melilla, Granada, Jaen and Alicante. Fourteen were arrested in Malaga city, five in Marbella, two in Benalmadena, one in Torremolinos, one in Cartama and one in Estepona. However, it was the vast amounts of money they spent on clothes and jewellery in Avenue Montaigne in Paris...
14 men and one woman were arrested last week. One of the men, Robert Rosier, is the apartment manager. Police say he was likely just using the drugs, but some of the suspects were living with him. All the suspects except Rosier are from Honduras.Officers from the Davis Metro Narcotics Strike Force began investigating the group about three months ago. Undercover officers also bought heroin from them. Typically, investigations like this can take a year. But police say there have been three overdoses in Davis County in the past month, so they wanted...
13 people have been questioned by the drug squad in connection with four separate cases. Theses incidents started on Saturday with a raid on a bar in Birkirkara after reports were received that drugs were being sold within the bar itself. When the police arrived, the barman, a 33-year-old man from Floriana, was seen trying to dispose of a capsule containing around 10 grams of cocaine. The barman and a 39-year-old woman from Zejtun, were both arrested. The second raid happened on Sunday afternoon on the Floriana granaries. Nine men between the ages...
Customs investigators in Victoria have arrested and charged two men and one woman with importing a commercial quantity of border-controlled precursor chemicals.A 23-year-old man, 18-year-old man and a 20-year-old woman, all from Brunswick in Melbourne, were arrested on Monday in Shepparton.Investigations began on 21 September 2008 when Customs officers at the Sydney international mail centre detected a package from Canada containing 160 medicine bottles labelled as 'caffeine'. Further examination of the package allegedly identified approximately...
"We found ten pouches of suspected drugs inside one of his bags." Dubai A court has confirmed a 10 year jail sentence for a South African visitor who handed over a bag containing cocaine to a policeman at Dubai airport. The Dubai Court of Appeal upheld the initial verdict, ten years in jail and a Dh50,000 fine, for the 39-year-old, M.V., who earlier pleaded guilty to smuggling cocaine which he admitted he intended to send to Switzerland. He will be deported after serving his sentence. Records show an Emirati policeman initially thought the South...
Drug mules are playing a 'game of chance' with their lives as they swallow liquid cocaine to try to make some quick money.Narcotics police on the island are on the lookout for smugglers who could be heading to the island after gulping down scores of homemade drug capsules.Seeing "nothing but dollar signs", the mules can swallow up to a kilo of liquid cocaine - which has a street value in Bermuda of about $30,000. They line their stomachs with liquid cocaine pellets stashed inside latex, even though the tiniest of tears can cause the liquid drug...
A 44-year-old Burlington man has been arrested for allegedly importing 3.5 kilograms of heroin into Canada.The drugs are worth an estimated $1,050,000.Officials said the arrest was made last Wednesday after a joint investigation between Halton police, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police Greater Toronto Area Drug Section and Canada Border Services Agency.The Greater Toronto Area Drug Section seeks to identify, disrupt and dismantle drug trafficking organizations that are having the most significant impact in Canada.As a result of the investigation,...
Four hollowed-out wooden plaques of the Virgin Mary filled with cocaine were seized at the Hidalgo-Reynosa International Bridge.U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers seized about five pounds of cocaine after they stopped Victor Hugo Mireles-Andrade, 23, a U.S. citizen from Chicago. The drugs have a street value of almost $147,000.Agents said Mireles-Andrade walked to the pedestrian checkpoint at the bridge and turned over his suitcase to officers for a routine x-ray examination. The x-ray revealed the cocaine inside the hollow wooden plaques.Mireles-Andrade...
Convicted Sarasota businessman Daniel Prewett of federal drug charges of Trafficking In Cocaine and money laundering charges, Prewtt Ran his cocaine operation out of his "front" an accounting firm at 5777 Beneva Rd Sarasota Fl during regular office hours, Prewett was the "main guy" in the Sarasota Cocaine powder Business. A confidential informant (CI) for Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) recorded video of a meeting with Sarasota businessman...
160 kilograms of cocaine was seized in a joint effort by Hickory Hills and Justice police, authorities said Friday, adding it was worth more than $15 million.On Thursday, more than 100 kilograms of cocaine was found at a residence in the 7800 block of 98th Street in Hickory Hills, police from that community said in a news release. The investigation led authorities to a second location on the 8900 block of 84th Street in Justice, where they found more than 50 kilograms of cocaine.Detectives seized a total of four cars, which "were equipped with...
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency NDLEA has arrested two suspected drug traffickers at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA), Lagos for allegedly ingesting 147 pieces of substances that tested positive for cocaine. The suspects described as a factory worker in Italy and a trader in Onitsha allegedly swallowed the substance for the sum of 7,300 Euros. One of them was caught on September 17, 2008 at about 8 pm when the result of scanning conducted on him proved positive for drug ingestion. The suspect who claims to live in Padova,...
car stopped for speeding led to an arrest and the seizure of 55 pounds of cocaine and five pounds of heroin.State police troopers pulled over the car after its driver was speeding on I-94 near M-51 in Van Buren County.During the stop, the troopers found a hidden compartment in the car and 27 kilo-shaped packages. Of those, 25 tested positive for cocaine and the other two tested positive for heroin.The estimated street value of the drugs is $1 million.Though...
Three men have been arrested by a strike force investigating the alleged smuggling of cocaine into Sydney from South America.Two Merrylands men were arrested at Moore Park yesterday, while a 31-year-old Colombian man was taken into custody in Sydney's CBD.Police say they also discovered a drug lab in a raid on a Merrylands home, where they found a large amount of cash, a gun and ecstasy tablets with a street value of $12,000.The Colombian man and a 22-year-old Merrylands man have both been charged with offences including conspiracy to import a...
Navy P-3 Orions working with Coast Guard teams have spotted two of the self-propelled, semi-submersible (SPSS) craft trying to make their way from Colombia up to the west coast of the U.S. in the Pacific ocean. Intelligence helped them know where to look.Rear Adm. Ted N. Branch says the Navy P-3 Orions used in the interdictions have radar and forward looking infrared sensors that can detect these low profile SPSS craft on the ocean.These types of smuggling vessels are fabricated in the jungles of Colombia and designers have moved on from earlier...
three tons of cocaine have been discovered aboard a shrimp trawler off the Pacific coast of Chiapas, Mexico, officials have announced.The Mexican Navy spotted the "Juan Alejandro" on Wednesday, and an inspection of the vessel led to the discovery of 3,100 packets of cocaine in one of the water reservoirs, the Mexican Attorney General's office said.The six members of crew, members of an association of Mexican fishermen, were arrested by authorities.A mini-submarine from Colombia was found carrying nearly six tons of cocaine in the same area of Mexico's...
Courier companies and post offices are being increasingly targeted by drug traffickers to send out contrabands from the country since tracking the sender is difficult, anti-narcotics officials say. Officials point out that though traffickers earlier used more human couriers and sea routes to send out narcotic drugs, recent cases which various agencies have busted, show that sending out drugs through couriers and even post offices has now become a preferred option for many. "They are being used more because it is difficult for an agency to get hold...
