‘There should be some charges’
One of the mothers of three Kansas City Chiefs fans found frozen in their friend’s snowy Missouri backyard after a January NFL watch party said “some charges” are warranted in her son’s …
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British Columbia to recriminalize use of drugs in public spaces
After weeks of troubling stories about problematic street drug use in hospitals, parks and at bus stops, the province of British Columbia announced plans to recriminalize the use of drugs …
1.4 tons of cocaine confiscated in one of Sweden’s “biggest seizures ever made”
Swedish customs made one of the country’s biggest-ever cocaine seizures after confiscating around 1.4 tons of the drug last week in a port near Stockholm, an official told Swedish television …
Arrest made after massive amount of cocaine mysteriously washes up on Australian beaches
An alleged drug trafficker has been charged after being linked to bricks of cocaine that mysteriously washed up on Australian beaches in 2023 and early 2024. The unnamed 36-year-old man …
More than 1 in 4 deaths among young people in Canada were opioid-related in 2021, study finds
Opioid-related deaths doubled in Canada between 2019 and the end of 2021, with Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta experiencing a dramatic jump, mostly among men in their 20s and 30s, says …
How one Colorado overdose victim fell through the cracks
Even as she lay on a friend’s floor in Wheat Ridge, unconscious from the effects of the drugs she’d taken, Rachel Skanron still had people who believed she could overcome …
NDLEA arrests traffickers bound for India, Oman
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has arrested two men at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport in Lagos for illicit drug trafficking.” According to a statement issued on Sunday, …
Cartels, mafias and gangs in Europe are using fruit companies, hotels and other legal businesses as fronts, Europol says
Criminal networks in the European Union are penetrating legal businesses across the 27-nation bloc and rely heavily on corruption to develop their activities. That’s the bleak picture emerging from a …
Largest cocaine shipment of the year seized in Colombian Caribbean after high-speed boat chase
Authorities have announced the largest cocaine shipment seizure of the year in the Caribbean Sea off Colombia after military ships and planes chased down a speedboat holding almost four tons of …
Bolivia claims its second largest drug seizure in history as 7.2 tons of cocaine found hidden in scrap metal shipment
Bolivia’s military burned a ton of cocaine seized in the Amazon jungle on the border with Brazil. Bolivian authorities burn one ton of seized cocaine 01:18 Bolivian police have seized …