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Italy and Mexico tracked down a fugitive mafia leader using his Facebook posts
A high-level member of Italy's Camorra mafia group was apprehended in northeast Mexico on Saturday after authorities tracked him down on Facebook.Giulio Perrone was first charged in 1993 when he and...
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In the world's biggest cocaine producer, cultivation reportedly surged again...
Cultivation of coca — the base ingredient of cocaine — surged 39% in Colombia in 2014, which was followed by a 42% increase the next year.In 2016, that production saw another significant increase,...
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'I dream about my husband in pools of blood': The Philippines' drug war...
Manila (AFP) - Sally Antonio is exhausted from working three jobs since police killed her husband and son, a typical Philippine drug war widow enduring a life sentence of impoverished misery.While...
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Alleged smugglers got caught trying to hide cocaine in fake bananas
Spanish authorities on Sunday announced the arrest of two men as part of an investigation that seized 37.5 pounds of cocaine hidden in a shipment of bananas — 15 pounds of it in fake bananas.The...
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Here's what $1 billion worth of cocaine looks like
The crew of the US Coast Guard cutter James returned to port this week in Miami with a haul of roughly 16 tons of cocaine gathered by it, other Coast Guard cutters, and international partners over 26...
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Watch the US Coast Guard bust a suspected smuggling vessel in the Pacific Ocean
Over the last two years, the US Coast Guard has been committing personnel and resources to known drug-transit zones, bringing intelligence and investigative resources to bear in an effort to crack down...
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Fake vegetables, frozen sharks, and an Xbox — here are some of drugs...
Every year, billions of dollars in illegal narcotics circle the globe, driven by the demand of millions of users.At every step, authorities try to intercept the drugs and apprehend their purveyors.In...
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Colombia just made the 3rd-largest cocaine seizure in its history
BOGOTA (Reuters) - Colombian police have seized more than 6 metric tons of cocaine in the Caribbean city of Barranquilla, the defense minister said on Sunday.The shipment, the third-largest seizure in...
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'I am angry. I will kill people': Rodrigo Duterte promises death for...
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte hasn't slacked in touting his drug war.Even an audience of young children doesn't seem to have tempered Duterte's posture toward the drug trade and the people in...
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Top military commanders say they can't keep up with the amount of drugs...
US military forces patrolling the country's southern approaches are under-resourced and overwhelmed by the flow of drugs and contraband coming north, military and Coast Guard leaders said in recent...
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German police found nearly a half-ton of cocaine hidden in bananas
German police say they intercepted 847 pounds of what they believe is cocaine in a shipment of bananas over the weekend.A worker at a wholesale company in Leverkusen, just north of Cologne in western...
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Mexico is getting a jolt from US efforts to bring down top drug and...
Mexico City (AFP) - Crooked cops, greedy governors and pusher-prosecutors: Corruption and drug crime reach to high places in Mexico, which is getting a jolt from US efforts to hunt down top...
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Mexico's brutal drug violence has hit a new level of complexity
Public displays of brutality have become common as drug-related violence roiled Mexico over the last decade.The recent discovery of a man's body on top of a hospital in northwest Mexico, apparently...
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7 things Trump gets wrong about MS-13
US President Donald Trump and Attorney General Jeff Sessions launched a rhetorical campaign this week against the MS13, one of the most violent gangs in Central America.But the verbal offensive by the...
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Trump appears to be bringing back the drug war, but cops may not welcome its...
Senior Trump administration officials have signaled that the US's protracted drug war will return to full force, but law enforcement, long tasked with manning the front line of that war, may not...
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'El Chapo' Guzman is unhappy in a US jail because a show about a rhinoceros...
Mexican kingpin Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman has made a litany of complaints about the conditions he faces in jail as he prepares for trial in the US.His legal team has said the isolation of 10 South, the...
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US border-patrol agents busted 67 pounds of marijuana — hidden in a coffin
On Saturday, US border agents at an immigration checkpoint southeast of Tucson, Arizona, noticed a white hearse traveling south on State Route 80.Later that evening, they saw the same vehicle traveling...
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Two guys in a Connecticut jail cell helped change the way America does drugs
George Jung is one of America's most well-known drug dealers, having been immortalized in the Johnny Depp film "Blow."But in 1974, he was a relatively low-level drug smuggler; one who had just been...
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Police busted 5.5 metric tons of cocaine — the latest shipment from a growing...
Spanish authorities say they worked with Ecuadorean police to stop a freighter off the South American country's coast carrying more than 5.5 metric tons of cocaine headed to Spain.Spanish national...
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Spanish police seize more than 2 tons of cocaine from ship in the middle of...
Spanish police seized more than two metric tons of cocaine from a ship with a Venezuelan flag in the Atlantic Ocean and arrested the seven crew members, Spain's interior ministry said on Monday.The...
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