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Bulgarian customs authorities have seized heroin worth 500 000 euro on a train travelling from Istanbul to the Serbian capital Belgrade via Bulgaria, Bulgarian media reported on March 22 2010, citing reports from Radio Television of Serbia (RTS).The heroin was detected in a sleeping compartment under a false floor. Bulgarian customs police seized the drugs after conducting a "thorough" check on the carriage.For the moment there is no information...
Terrence Bowler led Britain’s largest skunk cannabis smuggling ring, bringing £62m (€68m) of the drugs into the UK hidden in boxes of flowers from Holland.dozen drug smugglers who left bundles of banknotes rotting in a forgotten underground safe because of their runaway success face jail today.He will be sentenced with 11 others at Southwark Crown Court in L...
Edward Davis, 48, and Robert Pritchard, 62, both from Liverpool, were arrested at Dover’s Eastern Docks on Saturday.UK Border Agency officials apprehended the duo after finding about six kilograms of the Class A drug in a rucksack.Inquiries are continuing.Assistant director Paul Booth said: "UK Border Agency officers work tirelessly 24 hours a day, 365 days a year to detect and prevent drugs from being smuggled into the UK."We are determined to prevent this terrible trade, which can have such a destructive impact on the lives of so man...
Antwine A. Ducre, 23, 60230 S. 24th St. Lacombe, and Rodney Cousin, 26, Los Angeles, Calif were charged with possession with intent to distribute over 400 grams of cocaine, and principal to possession of cocaine within 1,000 feet of a park. Cousin was also chaged with possession of marijuana.Police Chief Freddy Drennan said Pasadena police called the SPD several days ago saying they had opened a package containing the cocaine, and the package was...
Nasser Muhammad Jacobs, 37, of East Orange, was arrested by state police at Wyoming when he attempted to hide heroin inside a vehicle upon returning from New Jersey in April. Jacobs became a fugitive when he skipped an October Luzerne County Court hearing on drug related charges.Wilkes-Barre police captured Jacobs on Wednesday night when he exited the Pennsylvania Turnpike with 150 heroin packets he obtained in Newark, N.J., intending to sell them in the Wyoming Valley, according to arrest records. Jacobs was charged with a single count of possession...
Police claim, they’ve cracked a drug trafficking syndicate, moving Cocaine between the Gold Coast, and Bikie Gangs at Hervey Bay.A nine-month operation came to an end this morning, with a raid on a luxury Clear Island Waters ho...
Michael Daly, 49, is already serving eight years in jail for a similar conspiracy. Daly, who admitted playing a key role in the plot, was sentenced at Blackfriars Crown Court in London. Alan Wells, 56, of Blenheim Road, Sidcup, who admitted his part in the conspiracy, was jailed for 15 years. Daly used skills and knowledge gained while working as a Metropolitan Police (Met) drug squad detective to smuggle 1,500kg (3,300lbs) of cocaine into the Irish...
global pact to halt smuggling and counterfeiting of tobacco products, which costs governments up to $40 billion a year in lost taxes, has become bogged down over ways to trace products, officials said on Friday.The agreement would also ban duty-free sales of cigarettes, popular with international air travellers, but which health campaigners claim are often diverted into illicit trade.The aim is to reach agreement in Geneva by Sunday ahead of a meeting...
