https://www.royalgazette.com/court/...smuggling-trial-starts-in-supreme-court/

Drug-smuggling trial starts in Supreme Court

https://www.thestar.com/news/world/...5076abb-dafb-5b5a-9aa9-94f07760aa31.html

Operation Sweetness: Paraguay finds 4 tons of cocaine stashed in sugar in its biggest drug bust yet

https://www.washingtonpost.com/worl...set-soccer-football-cocaine-trafficking/

A double life: The cocaine kingpin who hid as a professional soccer player

https://www.journaldemontreal.com/2...tupefiants-saisis-dans-le-grand-montreal

More than 800,000 pills: $4.5 million worth of narcotics seized in Greater Montreal

50 arrests after cocaine-laden sailboat intercepted in the Caribbean

https://www.europol.europa.eu/media...-laden-sailboat-intercepted-in-caribbean

https://metro.co.uk/2024/07/20/10-b...muggling-sting-across-atlantic-21263544/

10 Brits busted in £127,000,000 cocaine smuggling sting across Atlantic

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/cocaine-network-busted-europe-leader-the-professor/

Major cocaine network — led by smuggler known as "The Professor" — busted in Europe

ttps://www.cbsnews.com/news/crystal-meth-lab-found-hidden-remote-farm-south-africa-mexican-suspects-arrested/

Multimillion-dollar crystal meth lab found hidden in remote South Africa farm; Mexican suspects arrested

https://insightcrime.org/news/technological-innovation-latin-american-maritime-drug-traffickin/

Latin American Drug Traffickers Evade Authorities With Unmanned Vessels and Chemical Innovations

https://caribbean.loopnews.com/content/dr-cocaine-surgically-extracted-italian-smuggling-drugs-paris

DR: Cocaine surgically extracted from Italian smuggling drugs to Paris

https://www.news.uscg.mil/Press-Rel...n-in-illegal-narcotics-interdicted-in-t/

Guard offloads more than $96 million in illegal narcotics interdicted in the Caribbean Sea

Customs find biggest ever Dutch haul of crystal meth
July 25, 2024

https://www.dutchnews.nl/2024/07/customs-find-biggest-ever-dutch-haul-of-crystal-meth/

https://www.altrepagine.it/index.ph...ta-nella-sibaritide-un-quintale-e-mezzo/

Heavy load of “cocaine” seized from the 'ndrangheta in Sibaritide: one and a half quintals!

https://www.fox10phoenix.com/news/q...g-suspect-back-u-s-federal-officials-say

'Queen of the South': Arizona drug trafficking suspect back in U.S., federal officials say

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/pirate...sed-drug-trafficker-arrested-yacht-race/

Accused drug trafficker dubbed "Pirate of the Unknown" extradited to NYC following arrest before international yacht race

https://www.arabnews.com/node/2558581/middle-east

Jordan cracks down on drug smuggling rings, seizes 600,000 narcotic pills

https://abcnews.go.com/Internationa...tion-leads-206-arrests-seizure-112392660

Interpol operation leads to 206 arrests, seizure of $1.6b of illegal drugs, chemicals

Ton of cocaine among bananas in Vlissingen
July 30, 2024

Customs found more than a ton of cocaine during a regular check in the port of Vlissingen. The Public Prosecution Service Zeeland/West-Brabant does not report when this happened.

Ecuador
The drugs were packed in a shipment of bananas that had been transported from Ecuador. The final destination was a company in Germany.

After weighing it turned out to be 1065 kilos of cocaine.

Street value
The Public Prosecution Service estimates the street value at almost 80 million euros. That amounts to a kilo price of 75,000 euros.

Street value is the total value the cocaine would have fetched if it had been cut and sold on the street.

The wholesale price is less than a third of 75,000 euros per kilo.

Large ton of weed from Canada seized near Breda
July 30, 2024

The Customs of the Breda region seized a large amount of marijuana during a check on Wednesday 17 July. This catch was only released by the Public Prosecution Service in Breda on Tuesday.


A total of 1340 kilos of marijuana was found in two containers from Canada. Machines were also loaded in the containers.

A sniffer dog from Customs was deployed during the check. The dog barked, and after further investigation it turned out that marijuana was hidden in the machines.

Both containers were destined for a company in the Netherlands.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/a...rs-targeting-oslo-as-gateway-into-europe

Drug smugglers targeting Oslo as gateway into Europe

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/narco-...gs-chemicals-drug-trafficking-crackdown/

Authorities seize "narco sub" in South American jungle and illegal drugs, chemicals worth $1.6 billion

https://fox8.com/news/mexican-carte...g-fentanyl-and-cocaine-out-of-auto-shop/

Mexican cartel stopped in West Virginia, allegedly trafficking fentanyl and cocaine out of auto shop

https://mybellinghamnow.com/news/29...-scheme-involving-jet-ski-in-salish-sea/

Man convicted of drug smuggling scheme involving jet ski in Salish Sea

https://www.vice.com/en/article/4a3m5m/cocaine-drug-trade-peru-documentary

Inside Peru’s Deadly Cocaine Trade

U.S. Customs and Border Protection in Arizona seize over half a ton of fentanyl in largest seizure in agency history https://gangstersinc.org/2024/08/02...yl-in-largest-seizure-in-agency-history/

https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-...seizure-machines-imported-us-2024-08-02/

Australian police make $538 million drug seizure in machines imported from U.S.

https://insightcrime.org/news/ketamine-trafficking-rising-chile-thriving-synthetic-drugs-market/

Ketamine Trafficking Rising in Chile’s Thriving Synthetic Drugs Market

https://www.newzimbabwe.com/zimbabw...ng-to-smuggle-drugs-worth-us828-million/

Zimbabwean arrested in Australia for smuggling drugs worth US$828 million

https://www.duvarenglish.com/turkish-authorities-seize-22-tones-of-methamphetamine-news-64762

Turkish authorities seize 2.2 tones of methamphetamine

https://www.news4sanantonio.com/new...oms-and-border-protection-cato-institute

Record fentanyl bust at the southern border; smuggler, like many, was American