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Here Is What $400 Million of Cocaine and Marijuana Looks Like
The United States Coast Guard pulled into Port Everglades in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, with $400 million worth of cocaine and marijuana. The drugs were confiscated in the Caribbean Sea and Eastern Pacific Ocean.
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Italian Police Stop Shipment of Coffee Beans Filled with Cocaine
Police in Milan’s airport stopped a suspicious shipment of coffee beans from Colombia. Upon further investigation, they found 500 beans filled with cocaine.
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Mexico Seizes 2 Tons of Meth, 8 Tons of Marijuana, Fentanyl
Mexican soldiers seized a huge drug stash at a house in the border city of Tijuana, including about two tons of methamphetamine, eight tons of marijuana and 131,500 pills containing the synthetic opioid fentanyl.
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Narcotics Agent Sentenced for Role in Smuggling Cocaine from Puerto Rico to NY
Prosecutors accused the agent of infiltrating the U.S. DEA in 2011 and assisting a drug-trafficking ring known for slaughtering its rivals
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Former Mexican Police Official Indicted in NY for Allegedly Aiding Drug Cartels
Ivan Reyes Arzate, the former commander of the Mexican Federal Police’s Sensitive Investigative Unit (SIU), is accused in a federal indictment of providing assistance to Mexican drug cartels in exchange for hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes, prosecutors say. Arzate is charged in a three-count indictment with international cocaine distribution conspiracy, conspiracy to distribute and possess cocaine, and...
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USCG Offloads $312M in Cocaine From Months-Long Mission
The crew of the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Bertholf unloaded 18,000 pounds of cocaine in the Barrio Logan neighborhood of San Diego Wednesday morning.
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MLB, Union Agree to Testing for Opioids After Skaggs' Death
Major League Baseball will start testing for opioids and cocaine. But only players who do not cooperate with their treatment plans will be subject to discipline. Marijuana will be removed from the list of drugs of abuse and will be treated the same as alcohol as part of changes to the joint drug agreement between MLB and the players’ association....
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Waterlogged Bag Full of Cocaine Washes Up on Florida Beach
Sheriff’s deputies seized a duffel bag filled with cocaine that washed up on a northeast Florida beach.
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NJ Police Chief Resigns After Cocaine Arrest
The police chief of the Palisades Parkway Police Department has resigned about a week after he was arrested on a drug charge, according to a published report.
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16 People Charged in Drugs-on-Demand Ring Catering to NYC Professionals: Bronx DA
Members of a Bronx-based drug ring distributed millions of doses of fentanyl, heroin, and cocaine throughout New York City and delivered on demand to buyers in the advertising and real estate industries, law enforcement officials say.
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NJ Mom Who Was High While 2-Year-Old Daughter Died in Car Faces New Drug, Gun Charges: Officials
A New Jersey mom who investigators say was high on drugs in her car while her 2-year-old daughter died in her car seat now faces additional charges after police allegedly found heroin, crack cocaine, drug paraphernalia and a gun inside her vehicle.
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NYC Flight Attendant Who Ditched Cocaine at LAX Pleads Guilty
A former JetBlue flight attendant pleaded guilty Monday to taking part in a cross-country drug smuggling operation that was discovered when she bolted from a screening checkpoint at Los Angeles International Airport and abandoned a suitcase loaded with 60 pounds of cocaine.
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Flight Attendant Who Ditched Heels, Cocaine-Filled Luggage Nabbed in NYC
A flight attendant who fled a security check — allegedly leaving behind 68 pounds of cocaine and her Gucci shoes — was in custody Wednesday, NBC News reported. Marsha Gay Reynolds, 32, a former Jamaican beauty queen, surrendered in New York and was charged with possession of cocaine with intent to distribute in a federal criminal complaint.
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Flight Attendant in LAX Cocaine Case Turns Herself in
Marsha Reynolds was expected to appear in court in New York on Wednesday. Checkey Beckford reports.
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Flight Attendant Flees LAX, Allegedly Leaving Behind Luggage Filled With Cocaine
Authorities are looking for a flight attendant who fled Los Angeles International Airport without shoes Friday night after being subject to a random search that turned up about 60 pounds of cocaine in two carry-on roller bags, authorities told NBC News.
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Lamar Odom Will Not Face Cocaine Charges in Nevada, Prosecutors Say
Former NBA star Lamar Odom won’t be charged after he was found unconscious at a Nevada brothel with cocaine in his system, prosecutors said.
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Woman Used Honey to Swallow 54 Cocaine Pellets: Feds
Federal court records in Florida show a woman used honey to help her swallow 54 pellets containing cocaine in a trick she learned from a television show.
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Coast Guard Says It Seized More Than $32 Million in Cocaine
The U.S. Coast Guard said it seized more than 970 kilos of cocaine, it valued at more than $30 million, from a freighter in the Caribbean Sea on August 10.