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Drugs boat Brits held - mirror.co.uk: "Seven Britons have been arrested after a raid on a boat sailing to the UK from Spain loaded with cannabis worth £10million.The catamaran was boarded in the Straits of Gibraltar and 3.2 tonnes of hashish discovered.Two men and two women were seized by Spanish police on the Costa Del Sol while three men were arrested in Britain after £500,000 in cash was found in house raids.The alleged ringleader Raymond John Whelehan, 55, an Irish national, was arrested in a Spanish jail where he is already serving a sentence...
Federal prosecutors in Pittsburgh have unsealed an indictment charging 22 people who allegedly conspired for 10 years to fly cocaine from California to Pittsburgh, bypassing airport security measures in the process.The indictment was returned in June but revealed only Wednesday. It charges 16 people from California, four from Pennsylvania, and one each from Maryland and Ohio.Prosecutors say Timothy White, 40, of Tracy, Calif. was a primary source of the cocaine. Another man, Ruben Mitchell, 42, of Stockton, Calif. lost track of more than 41 pounds...
Panamanian authorities seized roughly four tons of cocaine at a hideout along the Caribbean coast, 24 hours after confiscating another three tons of that drug, an official spokesperson said Saturday.This second seizure by the National Aeronaval Service, or Senan, occurred Friday near the mouth of the Belen River, almost 300 kilometers (185 miles) northwest of Panama City and near the site of the first seizure at the mouth of the Concepcion River, the spokesman for that institution, Vladimir Rodriguez, said.He told Efe that “4,926 packets of cocaine...
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The Associated Press: In Italy mobsters use lotto to launder dirty cash: "Police say Italian mobsters are buying winning lotto tickets to launder millions of euros (dollars) in cocaine profits.Carabinieri investigators in southern Calabria said Thursday that an euro8 million winning ticket in the national Superenalotto numbers game was sold in a smokeshop owned by the father-in-law of a suspect jailed in a drug probe.Police said the 'ndrangheta offered the anonymous holder of the ticket euro8 million or a little less in dirty money. The winner...
'There's nothing we've done that is illegal': "first and only raid on one of Kahnawake's burgeoning number of cigarette factories, most of which are fiercely defended by the community. What made the facility different -- and convinced Kahnawake band leaders to sanction the bust -- is that police alleged its owners were working closely with the Hells Angels, their cheap, tax-free cigarettes being pedalled on the streets of Montreal along with the outlaw bike gang's crack cocaine. It seems like the clearest case yet of the kind of ties between organized...
