https://www.kbtx.com/2024/09/30/dru...gas-forcing-them-make-emergency-landing/

Drug smuggling suspects arrested after plane runs out of gas, forcing them to make emergency landing

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ce9j2nlgezvo

How sailors say they were tricked into smuggling cocaine by a British man

https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/drugs-fentanyl-shipping/

How fentanyl traffickers are exploiting a U.S. trade law to kill Americans

https://kstp.com/kstp-news/top-news...gal-drug-smuggling-at-stillwater-prison/

Multiple investigations opened into illegal drug smuggling at Stillwater Prison

https://www.duvarenglish.com/ruling...investigation-news-65020#google_vignette

Ruling AKP deputy resigns amid drug trafficking investigation

https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501568...vietnamese-nationals-arrested-in-kandal/

Large drug seizure as Vietnamese nationals arrested in Kandal

https://www.latintimes.com/us-custo...ase-cocaine-seizures-along-border-560527

U.S. Customs and Border Protection Agents in South Texas Stay Increase Cocaine Seizures Along the Border
As of August, CBP has seized almost 500,000 pounds of drugs along the U.S. Southwest border

https://www.npr.org/2024/09/30/nx-s...-drug-cartel-xylazine-tranq-mexico-china

The pipeline of deadly fentanyl into the U.S. may be drying up, experts say

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c9wkd187505o

Crime boss jailed for £100m plot to smuggle cocaine in banana boxes

https://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/world/americas/haiti/article293322194.html

Haiti’s armed gangs are also trafficking drugs. Why is the DEA closing its office there?

https://www.news.uscg.mil/Press-Rel...ed-cocaine-transfers-2-smugglers-to-dea/

Coast Guard offloads $4.3 million in seized cocaine, transfers 2 smugglers to DEA custody in Mayaguez, Puerto Rico

https://foxbaltimore.com/news/local...arge-scale-drug-and-firearms-trafficking

Four indicted in Baltimore for large-scale drug and firearms trafficking

https://www.fox10phoenix.com/news/r...izona-airports-expose-potential-problems


Recent drug busts stemming from Arizona airports expose potential problems

https://www.thehindu.com/news/citie...ine-worth-2000-crore/article68709312.ece

In Delhi’s biggest drug bust, police seizes over 500kg cocaine worth ?2,000 crore
A Delhi Police Special Cell team nabbed four people from South Delhi’s Mehrauli and confiscated the consignment weighing over 565 kilograms

https://www.benzinga.com/markets/ca...reaking-meth-bust-at-us-mexico-border-is

Mexican Cartels Smuggling Drugs In Food Imports: Record-Breaking Meth Bust At US-Mexico Border Is Latest

https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/nation/2024/10/113_383656.html

Korean man arrested in Thailand for alleged drug trafficking: report

https://www.firstpost.com/opinion/h...act-hezbollahs-drug-empire-13822342.html

How Hassan Nasrallah's death will impact Hezbollah’s drug empire

https://montreal.ctvnews.ca/250k-aw...nwide-drug-trafficking-warrant-1.7066026


$250K award offered for Quebec man wanted on nationwide drug trafficking warrant

https://www.latimes.com/world-natio...adquarters-of-drug-trafficking-in-mexico

At the epicenter of the Mexican drug trade, a deadly power struggle shuts down a city

https://www.dea.gov/press-releases/...rug-trafficking-conspiracy-linked-deadly

Fourteen Indicted in Multi-State Drug Trafficking Conspiracy Linked to Deadly Fentanyl Distributed to Members of the Lummi Nation in Washington

https://toronto.citynews.ca/2024/10...-investigation-known-as-project-dolphin/

4 people arrested in drug trafficking investigation known as ‘Project Dolphin’

https://scandasia.com/jakarta-police-arrest-two-drug-dealers-linked-to-denmark/

Jakarta police arrest two drug dealers with drugs from Denmark

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...Jackson-linked-deadly-fentanyl-ring.html

Seattle youth activist is branded 'a wolf in sheep's clothing' after being linked to deadly fentanyl ring

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...arly-two-kilograms-cocaine-suitcase.html

Scottish tourist, 32, arrested after allegedly trying to jet out of Colombia with nearly two kilograms of cocaine in his suitcase

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/n...on-Taj-alleged-smuggle-50kg-cocaine.html

NRL player manager and his son allegedly caught trying to smuggle 50kg of cocaine worth $16million into Australia

Cocaine production may reach new record | Navy ship seizes 7,000 kilos in one month
There are indications that cocaine production in South America will grow to a new record this year. In Colombia, more has already been seized this year than in 2023 and coca leaf production has increased there. Last month, the Dutch navy ship Zr. MS. Holland seized a huge amount of cocaine in the Caribbean, around 7,000 kilos.

On Tuesday, the Ministry of Defense announced that 1,865 kilos of cocaine and 420 kilos of marijuana were seized in the Caribbean Sea about 2 weeks ago. A suspicious boat was stopped by targeted shots somewhere at sea near the ABC Islands. Five passengers were arrested and handed over to the American Coast Guard for trial in the United States.

In Colombia, the head of the anti-drug unit at the U.S. Embassy in Bogotá said in an interview yesterday that the size of the country's coca leaf harvests has reached record levels. The production of coca leaf is monitored in the United States by the State Department and the White House. The United Nations' anti-crime agency UNODC also has a coca monitoring program. It does this by analyzing satellite images and market prices in the major coca-producing countries of Bolivia, Peru and Colombia.

So probably more cocaine has already entered the world market this year. But the price of a kilo of cocaine has increased in recent years in the wholesale trade in Rotterdam and Antwerp, to over € 27,000.


https://www.crimesite.nl/cocainepro...chip-pakt-in-een-maand-bijna-8-000-kilo/

https://www.gov.ca.gov/2024/10/08/a...-less-than-a-week-including-in-raw-beef/

A meaty haul: CHP seizes $1.7 million worth of fentanyl in less than a week — including in raw beef

https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/200-kg-cocaine-worth-about-rs-2-000-crore-seized-in-delhi-6761054

Cocaine Worth ? 2,000 Crore, Stuffed In Snacks Packets, Seized In Delhi

https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/video/9.6531961

Drug traffickers flood Australia with Canadian meth

https://kun.uz/en/news/2024/10/11/s...tempts-seizes-47-kg-of-opium-and-hashish

SSS foils multiple drug smuggling attempts, seizes 47 kg of opium and hashish