https://www.dutchnews.nl/2024/01/european-ports-join-forces-to-combat-drugs-trafficking/

European ports join forces to combat drugs trafficking

https://www.cbsnews.com/losangeles/...d-narcotics-ring-in-san-fernando-valley/

Four arrested in connection with alleged narcotics ring in San Fernando Valley

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...5-huge-bales-swastika-stickers-them.html

The Nazi narcos: Brazilian cops busts cartel gangsters with $14 MILLION-worth of cocaine wrapped in 15 huge bales with swastika stickers on them

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13011327/Ecuador-cocaine-destroyed-tons-pulverized.html

Ecuador police destroy more than 20 tons of cocaine by pulverizing the drug and mixing the powder with cement, sand and glass

https://hightimes.com/news/leaders-international-authorities-unite-after-historic-fiji-drug-bust/

Leaders, International Authorities Unite After Historic Fiji Drug Bust

https://www.fox13news.com/news/coas...fficking-st-petersburg-boat-patrol-busts

$55M worth of cocaine, marijuana seized by Florida Coast Guard crew in drug trafficking busts

https://www.nationalcrimeagency.gov...ing-57-million-cocaine-haul-to-australia


Husband and wife convicted of exporting £57 million cocaine haul to Australia

https://globalnews.ca/news/10262301/manitoba-rcmp-cbsa-record-narcotics-seizure-border/

‘Largest in prairie history’: $50 million in meth seized at Manitoba border crossing

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/fbi-alleges-mexican-cartel-canadian-truckers-part-of-drug-ring

FBI alleges Mexican cartel, Canadian truckers part of drug ring

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...nican-republic-cocaine-banana-boxes.html

Portsmouth drugs bust: Narcotics gang are caught trying to smuggle £10million of cocaine in banana boxes shipped from the Dominican Republic - as three men are arrested

https://nypost.com/2024/02/03/news/uks-escobars-of-ealing-smuggled-880m-of-cocaine/

UK drug barons dubbed the ‘Escobars of Ealing’ smuggled $880M of cocaine — years after suspicious death of adopted son

https://cayman.loopnews.com/content/tito-el-borracho-mauro-captured-colombia-drug-trafficking

"Tito El Borracho" & "Mauro" Captured In Colombia For Drug Trafficking
The Men Are Wanted For Extradition By Authorities In Peru & United States For Trafficking Tons Of Cocaine Hydrochloride To USA & Caribbean.

https://www.borderlandbeat.com/2024/02/12-million-fentanyl-methamphetamine-and.html

1.2 Million Fentanyl, Methamphetamine And Cocaine Pills Hidden In Boxes With Bee Hives Secured In Culiacán: Sinaloa

https://www.eurojust.europa.eu/news...ficking-network-59-arrests-across-europe

Major blow to Albanian drug trafficking network: 59 arrests across Europe
Eurojust supports action against smugglers using secret compartments in cars

https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/new...ensington-streets-officials-say/3767930/

Pa. AG, police effort sweeps 11 lbs. of fentanyl off Kensington streets, officials say

https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw...-over-80m-drug-haul-20240206-p5f2uf.html

Guatemala, Mexico, Hong Kong, Sydney: Men arrested over $80m drug haul

German-Iranian top criminal arrested in Colombia for cocaine record
February 6, 2024

One of the most wanted people in Europe was arrested in Colombia on Monday : the German-Iranian Pouya Mohmini (44). He is suspected of having smuggled tons of cocaine to the port of Hamburg in collaboration with Colombian and Dutch criminals, among others. The network also operated in the Netherlands and Antwerp. Mohmini was arrested in Ciudad Jardín, an exclusive part of Cali.

16 tons
One of the shipments arrived in Hamburg from Paraguay by sea container in February 2021. Ultimately, 16 tons of cocaine were seized . The 13,824 blocks of coke were hidden in 1,728 cans. The final destination of the drugs was The Hague.

Mohmini's group operated from Hanover. Detectives arrested eleven men (aged 27 to 58) after the record discovery during raids in Lower Saxony, Schleswig-Holstein, Hamburg and North Rhine-Westphalia.

Many people have already been arrested and convicted in the investigation into the discovery of 16 tons in Hamburg and 7.7 tons in Antwerp, in Germany and the Netherlands. Here there were raids and arrests in Den Bosch and Schiedam, among others. Two Schiedam brothers, among others, were prosecuted here . A Utrecht resident was arrested in Abu Dhabi in the case .

Mohmini, along with several others, is said to have been the mastermind behind the transport. He lived in Colombia with false papers under the name Reza Raskshan.

Konstantinos S.
According to Bild, Mohmini belongs to the circle of Konstantinos S. (41), the alleged head of the German criminal network. S. was arrested by detectives in Dubai in 2022, but released on bail.

Other names mentioned in Bild are Andres C. from Laatzen (43, currently in Spain) and IT expert Khaled B. (50, sentenced to ten years in prison in October 2023). The forwarder who helped the smugglers get the cocaine out of the port is also serving 12.5 years behind bars.

Mohmini's lawyer Dimtrios Kotios states that M. denies the accusations. M. has now been extradited to Germany and is awaiting transfer in Frankfurt to a detention center in Lower Saxony.

Paraguayan businessman Diego B. (39) is also accused of international drug trafficking. He is believed to have been held in custody in the United Arab Emirates since late last year.

https://hightimes.com/psychedelics/magic-mushrooms-busts-up-amid-renewed-interest-in-psychedelics/

Magic Mushrooms Busts Up Amid Renewed Interest in Psychedelics

https://www.cnn.com/videos/us/2024/02/02/ai-border-patrol-drugs-contd-ff-orig.cnn

Video :New pilot program could revolutionize how the US government stops drug smugglers

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...ne-party-loving-friends-spared-jail.html

Gangster's glamorous moll, 29, who ran drug-trafficking racket peddling cocaine, Ecstasy and ketamine to her party-loving friends is spared jail

https://www.borderlandbeat.com/2024/02/drug-lab-in-culiacan-that-generated-400.html

Drug Lab In Culiacan That Generated 400 KG Of Methamphetamine Per Day Seized: Sinaloa

https://www.borderlandbeat.com/2024/02/22-tons-of-cocaine-seized-from-banana.html

22 Tons of Cocaine Seized from Banana Plantation in Ecuador

https://www.cbsnews.com/losangeles/...-meth-trafficking-operation-in-rosemead/

International drug smuggling operation stuffs meth into baby dolls

https://www.thespec.com/news/world/...73faedb-ac25-5b48-b6ef-636ba712d424.html

Ex-head of Honduras police pleads guilty to drug trafficking; darkens outlook for ex-president

https://www.cadtm.org/Capitalism-and-drug-trafficking-in-Ecuador-Two-sides-of-the-same-coin

Capitalism and drug trafficking in Ecuador: Two sides of the same coin

https://calgary.citynews.ca/2024/02/07/calgary-cocaine-business-card-casino/

Calgarian charged for handing out business cards with cocaine samples at downtown casino

https://www.chroniclejournal.com/ne...70c19da-c630-11ee-892a-ff124758e853.html

Drug busts result in arrests, seizures
Thunder Bay warrants were carried out.

The following people have been arrested as a result of Project Marble: Jordan Agostino, 28; Juan Pulido, 29; Brandon Spencer Stevens, 26; Elizabeth Bennardo, 26; Phillip Pasciullo, 23; Lynn Katherine Rolfe, 62; Nicole Rolfe, 32; Landon Bennett, 34; and Diana Vecchio, 32.

https://www.tbnewswatch.com/local-news/police-seized-over-2-million-in-massive-drug-bust-8222455

Thunder Bay Ontario Police seized over $3 million in massive drug bust

https://www.thunderbaypolice.ca/news/thunder-bay-police-service-releases-details-project-marble

Thunder Bay Police Service releases details of Project Marble

No big names in that Thunder Bay bust, but several do have Italian/Calabrian surnames.