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It took Ecuador’s police nine months to locate the country’s most wanted fugitive. However, when they found him outside an apartment complex in Bogotá, Colombia, the leader of the Choneros gang, Jorge Luis Zambrano, known as “Rasquiña” or simply “JL,” appeared calm.

In the early hours of August 14, Ecuador’s police and prosecutors deployed one of the most significant security operations of recent years in and around Durán, a coastal municipality that has become an epicenter of violence in the country.

A man who smuggled £11,000 worth of cocaine into the Isle of Man on the ferry has been jailed for five years and eight months.

A British beautician facing decades behind bars after being accused of smuggling cocaine into the US from Mexico has insisted she believed she was only carrying bags of cash across the border.

The Mexican Navy said Tuesday it has seized 3.6 tons (about 8,000 pounds) of cocaine aboard a "narco sub" off the Pacific coast which was spotted earlier this week about 153 miles off the resort of Acapulco.

Spanish police said Wednesday that they had seized 13 tons of cocaine -- the country’s largest-ever haul of the drug -- and made one arrest.

The chief constable of Greater Manchester Police has said the force’s security has been "tightened up" after an "irredeemably corrupt" detective stole cocaine valued at £400,000 from property stores.

Coca crops and cocaine production in Colombia increased during 2023, as the government has stopped forced eradication efforts and concentrated on seizures to fight drug trafficking.

Four men accused of trying to smuggle £200m worth of cocaine into the UK have been remanded in custody.

Police seek to identify intended recipient after drugs found under pallets at four Grand Frais stores

A joint Spanish and Colombian operation has dismantled a cocaine processing lab, resulting in dozens of arrests and the seizure of thousands of litres of chemical precursors, Europol said Monday in an official statement.

The nordic nation has become a gateway to Europe for South American drug traffickers

HMS Trent, a British warship, seized over £40 million worth of cocaine from drug traffickers in the Caribbean, according to the Royal Navy.

A U.S. court has sentenced former British Virgin Islands (BVI) Prime Minister Andrew Alturo Fahie to more than 11 years in prison for his role in a major cocaine smuggling operation.

The ringleader of an organized crime group that tried to smuggle millions of dollars worth of cocaine into the U.K. via a container of bananas was convicted Wednesday, the National Crime Agency (NCA) reported.

Michael Ferry, 33, has been told he faces a sentence "north of 20 years" after admitting his part in the conspiracy to sell the class A drug on a commercial scale

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As fears grow for missing Brit teen Jay Slater, there's increasing focus on international crime groups – including the secretive ‘Ndrangheta – who are channeling drug money into property on Tenerife

Daniel Hodgkinson, 37, has been jailed for two years after he broke into a home in Fegg Hayes, Stoke on Trent, in April and scared two children before fleeing in the family's car

Scousers are far more at risk from motorists off their faces on cannabis, cocaine and other substances than anywhere else, according to a nationwide survey on the Top 10 worst areas

Sheffield boxer Liam Cameron weighed over 20 stone and battled addiction problems after being banned from the sport for four years

A Brit locked up in a Spain jail has told how there was 'no health and safety' in the notorious Spanish jail where he spent three years for drug smuggling