• He warned of a burgeoning narco-state: Honduras' top anti-drugs official shot and killed Suspected drug hitmen on Tuesday shot and killed Honduras' top anti-drugs official who recently had warned the country was in danger of becoming a "narco-state," police said.
Julian Aristides,...
• Iran has 130,000 new drug addicts each year-report Excerpt:Iran is a key transit route for narcotics smuggled from neighbouring Afghanistan, which produces more than 90 percent of the world's supply of opium, to the West and elsewhere. Opium is used...
• Tip of the Iceberg: Washington Co. deputies charged with drug trafficking Two Washington County sheriff's deputies have been charged with trafficking in marijuana and other crimes, state police said Friday. Deputies Wayne Bartley, 42, of Springfield and Bill Mattingly, 40,...
• Mafia killing in Italy caught on camera (video)
He was named as Mariano Bacio Tarracino, 53, and is believed to have been connected to a mafia clan involved in a drug trafficking turf war with a rival group. Anti-mafia investigators said they...
• Sharing is caring: UN report -- Russia becomes largest market for Afghan heroin Related: Collusion with the U.S.: Medvedev says Russia certain to join WTO; Russian state TV suggests USA involved in drug-trafficking from AfghanistanUN report -- Russia becomes largest market for...
• Drug smuggling 'submarine' seized with ten tonnes of cocaine & 3 Colombians and a Mexican off Guatemalan coast A makeshift submarine laden with at least ten tonnes of cocaine worth more than £120 million, has been seized by anti-drug agents off the Guatemala's Pacific coast.
Four alleged drug...
• Two officers killed as Rio gangs shoot down police helicopter Drug traffickers in Rio de Janeiro forced down a police helicopter on Saturday, killing two officers on board during one of the worst outbreaks of gang-related violence in the city in several...
• Honduras: cocaine flights surge in wake of coup Related: CIA Topples Honduran Presidnet to Protect Drugs Trade?(WW4 Report) -- The number of planes smuggling cocaine through Honduras has surged since the US suspended drug cooperation after the...
• Good Luck: Russian police want U.S. data on Afghan drug trafficking (RIA Novosti) - Russia's federal drug control service will provide the U.S. with data on Afghan drugs, and expects reciprocal steps from U.S. colleagues, the head of the service said on Wednesday....
• Royal Navy seizes cocaine worth $380m -- and now what? The Royal Navy says it has seized its biggest haul of cocaine, estimating its street value at £240m ($380m). The Portsmouth-based frigate HMS Iron Duke seized more than five-and-a-half tonnes...
• Russia, Plagued by Heroin Use, to Press U.S. on Destroying Afghan Poppy Crops During talks this week with his American counterpart, Russia’s top drug enforcement official, Viktor P. Ivanov, will press the United States to step up efforts to destroy Afghan poppy...
• Al Jazeera exposes Iraq's booming, 'endemic' drug trade (Rawstory) -- A little-noticed report by Arab news network Al Jazeera on Friday shined a light on an often overlooked aspect of occupied Iraq: Its blossoming drug trade, fueled by Afghanistan and...
• Peru Battles Thriving Drug Trade Surging cocaine production is rattling Peru after years of relative calm, raising fears that the associated increase in violence and corruption could derail one of the fastest-growing economies in...
• Latin American drug cartels find home in West Africa Colombian and Mexican drug cartels have jumped the Atlantic Ocean and expanded into West Africa, working closely with local criminal gangs to carve out a staging area for an assault on the lucrative...
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