https://insightcrime.org/news/pioneering-dutch-cocaine-trafficker-sentenced-to-life-in-prison/

Pioneering Dutch Cocaine Trafficker Sentenced to Life in Prison

https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501451839/taiwanese-tried-for-smuggling-800kg-of-drugs/

Taiwanese tried for smuggling 800kg of drugs

https://www.salemreporter.com/2024/...ng-trafficking-enormous-amounts-of-meth/

Feds ensnare Salem woman in drug ring trafficking “enormous” amounts of meth

https://www.unilad.com/news/world-n...r-realizes-stash-missing-610838-20240308

Moment drug trafficker realizes his $10 million stash is missing

https://www.nationalcrimeagency.gov...-hid-cocaine-consignment-on-cruise-liner


Operation Venetic: Corrupt steward hid cocaine consignment on cruise liner

Thanks however Mao Romo was not sentenced to life he only got 15 years instead which was a suprise to many, considering how close him and his brother Mario were to Taghi. Mario did get a life sentence.

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/26480066/southampton-seaside-drugs-cartels-cocaine-battle-control/

HELL'S GATE The UK city becoming a ‘cocaine gateway’ as cartels flood ports with Class A drugs and dealers arm kids with CROSSBOWS

https://www.arabnews.com/node/2473861/middle-east


French drug gang leader arrested in Morocco: officials

According to the Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin, Felix Bingui is considered responsible for over forty murders in 2023.

https://www.theobserver.ca/news/loc...ater-bridge-at-least-the-14th-since-2021

Trucker charged in cocaine bust at the Blue Water Bridge at least the 14th since 2021

https://www.moroccoworldnews.com/20...-operation-seizes-1-4-tonnes-of-cannabis

Morocco Busts Drug Trafficking Operation, Seizes 1.4 Tonnes of Cannabis

https://www.connectedtoindia.com/drug-smuggling-european-footballer-quincy-promes-arrested-in-dubai/

Drug smuggling: European footballer Quincy Promes arrested in Dubai

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-leeds-68578754

Eighth person jailed over £1bn frozen chicken box drug haul

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...-smuggling-hope-escape-firing-squad.html



British grandmother Lindsay Sandiford who has been on death row in Bali for more than 10 years for drug smuggling 'is offered glimmer of hope to escape firing squad'

Bolivian police seized 7.28 tons of cocaine last Thursday. The shipment was on its way to the port of Antwerp. The packages of cocaine were attached to iron structures contained in two containers.

Bolivia has no seaport. The plan, according to Bolivian authorities, was to sail the shipment to Antwerp via Chile, Peru and the Panama Canal. The interception was made at Pisiga at the border crossing with Chile.

Three men have been arrested, one aged 50 and two aged 20. It concerns the drivers of the trucks.

Last January, 8.7 tons of cocaine were seized in Bolivia. That shipment was impregnated in wooden planks and was on its way to the Netherlands. This was the "largest drug seizure in the history" of the country, according to what they said in the national authorities at the time.

Bolivia is becoming increasingly important in the cocaine trade. A lot of cocaine goes from there on to Asia, Europe and North America.

Alejandro Sosa in Scarface was based in Bolivia.

https://www.echoroukonline.com/moroccan-authorities-involved-with-drug-lords

Moroccan Authorities Involved With Drug Lords

https://insightcrime.org/news/insight-crimes-cocaine-seizure-round-up-2023/

InSight Crime’s 2023 Cocaine Seizure Round-Up

https://news4sanantonio.com/news/lo...distribute-cocaine-million-investigation

Texas mayor charged in multi-million dollar drug trafficking case

https://timesofsandiego.com/crime/2...r-blind-mule-border-drug-smuggling-case/

U.S. Supreme Court Divided Over ‘Blind Mule’ Border Drug Smuggling Case from California

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...ed-firing-squad-survive-year-prison.html

Brit drug-smuggling nan Lindsay Sandiford, 67, who has been on death row for 10 years could be 'spared firing squad if she can survive another year in prison'

https://ytech.news/en/international-drug-ring-with-aerial-trafficking-network-busted/

International Drug Ring with Aerial Trafficking Network Busted

https://insightcrime.org/news/autho...araguas-involvement-in-drug-trafficking/

Authorities in Colombia Expose Tren de Aragua’s Involvement in Drug Trafficking

https://www.trucknews.com/security/lure-of-a-quick-buck-fuels-drug-smuggling-in-trucks/1003183236/

Lure of a quick buck fuels drug smuggling in trucks

Posted on another topic but are the Mob active in cigarette smuggling?

Ecuadorian cocaine via West Africa to Europe (VIDEO)
March 23, 2024

Last Wednesday, police in Ecuador announced that they had busted a drug organization that transported Colombian cocaine to destinations in Europe with a stopover in Gambia, West Africa. Twelve people have been arrested.

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The director of the anti-drug police said the arrests were the result of 36 months of investigation. There have been ten raids on locations in the coastal provinces of Manabí and Guayas, where the major container port of Guayaquil is located. The cocaine was collected in Manabí warehouses and then went to other warehouses near Guayaquil. From there, packages of cocaine were loaded into containers containing various deck cargoes, including cans of fish and seafood.

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The containers were destined for Gambia. The cocaine was stored again in Gambia and then transported to Europe.

Cocaine is often sailed north from West Africa on seagoing vessels and transferred to fishing vessels on the high seas and transported to destinations in Southern Europe.

See more posts about the West African cocaine route:

Spanish police: cocaine on Italian 'Ndrangheta fishing boat

2.4 tons of cocaine found on “bomb ship”

African route on fishing boats: 3.3 tons of cocaine caught on the high seas

Cocaine in Renaults: Dutchman arrested for cocaine line in West Africa

https://www.crimesite.nl/ecuadoraanse-cocaine-via-west-afrika-naar-europa-video/

More cocaine was seized in Colombia and Ecuador in 2023 than in 2022. Authorities in Colombia seized 739.5 tons of cocaine, 12.1% more than in 2022. Ecuador intercepted almost 200 tons of cocaine last year in 2023, slightly more than 2022. This is evident from an inventory by InsightCrime .

https://insightcrime.org/news/insight-crimes-cocaine-seizure-round-up-2023/?

20 guns, nearly 100 kg of cocaine, $100K in cash: Montreal police make 'major' drug bust

In what police describe as a "major" blow to organized crime, police say they have seized a massive stash of illegal drugs and weapons after 20 searches were done in Toronto and the Montreal area.

https://montreal.ctvnews.ca/20-guns...al-police-make-major-drug-bust-1.6826200

https://www.journaldemontreal.com/2024/04/03/la-police-saisit-85-000-kilos-de-tabac-de-contrebande

Police seize 85,000 kilos of contraband tobacco