drug trafficking
Bricks of 'Very Pure' Cocaine Keep Washing Up on French Beaches and No One Knows Why
The prosecutor’s office in Rennes said the $66 million in packages “very probably” contained drugs from South America.
China Just Made a Big Show of Sentencing a Bunch of Fentanyl Traffickers to Life
President Trump has long accused China of not doing enough to take down fentanyl traffickers, so this time China put the sentencing on display.
Inside the Phone Company Secretly Run By Drug Traffickers
Crime blogger Martin Kok was assassinated while leaving a sex club. It turned out MPC, one of his clients, was not an ordinary phone company.
Everything We Know About El Chapo’s Sons, ‘Los Chapitos’
At least four are said to be key players in the family business — and they’re continuously staving off challenges to their power.
Nearly Half of Individuals Sentenced to Death in Malaysia Are Foreigners
The executive director of Amnesty International Malaysia says foreign women in “these cases were quite obviously of unwitting drug mules.”
The Reason Hondurans Are Very Pissed Off Right Now — and Taking to the Streets
U.S. prosecutors have accused the president of conspiring with drug traffickers.
A Guy Really Tried to Smuggle a Pound of Cocaine Under His Toupee
Like my hair? Gee, thanks. Just snort it.
Canadian CEO Who Sold Encrypted Phones to the Sinaloa Cartel Sentenced to Nine Years
Vincent Ramos was sentenced to nine years and forfeited more than $80 million for providing criminal organizations with encrypted devices.
Indonesia’s Party Island Is No Longer the Drug Paradise It Once Was
The police are coming after drug users and dealers in Gili Trawangan, an island off the coast of Lombok famous for its over-the-top parties.
Brazil's drug gangs are prepared to go to war with Bolsonaro
“He’s going to take the world into an urban war.”
The British Criminals Moving to Pakistan to Make a Killing from Heroin
Two British street dealers are now making a fortune sending batches of heroin from Pakistan back to the UK. They aren't the only ones.
Tijuana’s Tourism Is Booming Even as the Homicide Rate Spikes
Over 2,300 people have been murdered in 2018 thus far, an increase from 1,647 homicides in 2017.