"Narco-sub" breaks apart while being towed by fishing boat
Drug traffickers, especially from Colombia, have been caught using submarines to transport cocaine into Mexico, and from there into the U.S.
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Drug traffickers, especially from Colombia, have been caught using submarines to transport cocaine into Mexico, and from there into the U.S.
Toronto police have seized over 835 kilograms of cocaine that is alleged to have ties to the Jalisco New Generation cartel.
Police said they launched the operation when they detected two suspicious speedboats in the area.
Christopher Neil was arrested in the city of Medellin in an operation by local law enforcement and Interpol.
The U.S. State Department offered a reward of up to $5 million for information leading to Maximiliano Dávila's conviction.
Othman El Ballouti, who was sanctioned by the U.S. last year, was held over an international arrest warrant issued by Belgian authorities.
Russia's FSB security services said members of Colombia's infamous Cali cartel hid the drugs in a vehicle.
The drugs had a sale value of 760 million Australian dollars ($494 million), federal police said.
More than 400 people were arrested in the operation targeting oceans, coasts, rivers and ports around the globe in October and November.
Police in the Balkans arrested 11 alleged members of a criminal syndicate responsible for smuggling cocaine from South America to Europe, officials said.
Law enforcement is raising alarm bells over a drug called pink cocaine. It doesn't actually contain cocaine, but is instead a combination of other substances. Tom Hanson has more on the spread of the potentially deadly drug.
Prosecutors said eight people were detained following searches carried out in Belgium and the Netherlands earlier this month.
Spanish police arrested Oscar Sanchez Gil along with 15 other people as part of a probe into the country's largest-ever cocaine bust.
A ship carried crates of bananas that concealed identically designed boxes containing the cocaine, police said.
Navy ships arrived to intercept the boat, which was carrying 102 packages filled with bricks of cocaine, authorities said.
The multinational cocaine and cannabis trafficking enterprise was busted after investigators cracked encrypted messaging apps.
The seizure "represents the largest amount of drugs seized in a maritime operation, unprecedented in history," the Mexican navy said
The feds are issuing a new warning about a drug cocktail called pink cocaine. The feds say it's a popular party drug they're finding on New York City streets.
Coast Guard crew members found 142 "brick-sized packages" that tested positive for cocaine inside a small boat.
In addition to the cocaine, detectives allegedly seized 10 cars, $800,000 in cash, a Rolex watch, four guns and two ballistic vests.
The U.S. Coast Guard said that it had offloaded more than $54 million worth of cocaine that was intercepted in the Caribbean Sea.
More than 3,600 pounds of cocaine were confiscated after unidentified people aboard the boat beached it and fled the area, officials said.
The land seizure is considered the biggest in recent history, with officials estimating the drugs are worth at least $200 million.
Puerto Rico is considered a transit point for drugs being smuggled to the U.S. mainland.
The discovery comes just weeks after authorities said Hurricane Debby blew 25 packages of cocaine onto a beach in the Florida Keys.