BRUSSELS (AP) — Records amounts of cocaine are being seized in Europe while manufacturing of the drug is now taking place inside the the European Union, officials in charge of fighting and monitoring ...

Unrefined coca base is increasingly being smuggled out of Colombia, rather than refined powder cocaine, the country's top counter-drug official said in May. Mexican criminal groups are taking a new ...

WHEN SPANISH police looked into a gang from the Canary Islands last year, they unwittingly landed on something big. In an unassuming house in Galicia, in north-western Spain, specialist teams were ...

GUAYAQUIL, Ecuador — The drug lord had already escaped the law in three countries, and he planned to do it again. In less ...

Global cocaine production has soared to record highs after declining during the coronavirus pandemic, according to a report from the United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime (UNODC). Between 2020 and ...

The Amazon forest and watershed shared by Peru, Colombia, and Brazil provide ideal cover for coca cultivation and processing. As a result, a cocaine trafficking chain has emerged there — one that ...

(WABI) - An Auburn man has been sentenced to 35 months in jail for trafficking cocaine base. According to court documents, in July of 2023, a confidential informant reported to the FBI that ...

(KRON) — The Alameda County Sheriff’s Office said its narcotics task force was aided by the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) in serving a search warrant Thursday at the Dublin home of a convicted ...

Colombia's cocaine production reached a record high in 2023, despite government efforts to combat the illicit industry. The booming cocaine trade is driving insecurity, corruption, and violence, ...

BALTIMORE (AP) — Two brothers have been sentenced for their roles in a plot to sell cocaine base in Baltimore and Annapolis. Thirty-seven-year-old Ernst Harmon of Annapolis was given a term of more ...

A Schenectady man was sentenced on Tuesday to 5 years in federal prison for selling drugs. Omar Wynn, 32, previously admitted to selling 1,500 fentanyl pills and 8.6 grams of cocaine base to another ...