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A Montreal man pleaded guilty in federal court Thursday in Vermont to being part of an effort to smuggle 3,300 pounds of cocaine from Peru to Vermont and then to Canada in a plot that prosecutors say was connected to the kidnapping of an older New York couple last year

Aerial video from Port Everglades, Fla., shows Coast Guard crews offloading more than $1.4 billion in seized cocaine and marijuana.

Two people were arrested in Gardiner, Maine, after DEA agents and police found $200,000 worth of cocaine in their car, including two pounds disguised as a cake.

The cocaine was wrapped in plastic with coffee grounds sprinkled on top, a tactic used by drug traffickers to hide the scent of the drug from K-9 dogs.

A New York man and a Maine woman are facing charges over cocaine disguised as a cake that was seized from their vehicle, the Maine Drug Enforcement Agency said Wednesday. Acting on a tip, police stopped the car on Interstate 295 in Gardiner on Tuesday, and a drug-sniffing dog found 4 pounds (2 kilograms) of cocaine worth $200,000 on the…

Sixteen individuals have been indicted for their roles in trafficking prescription opioids and cocaine in New York City, Massachusetts, and Pennsylvania, New York Attorney General Letitia James announced Wednesday. According to two indictments — unsealed in Kings County Supreme Court — the group sold tens of thousands of prescription oxycodone pills, worth about $500,000, and more than 500 grams of…

A joint investigation with Albany police and the FBI resulted in the seizure of almost 1.2 kilograms of cocaine and 140 grams of heroin mixed with fentanyl, along wit oxycodone, $40,000 in cash and nine firearms, according to the attorney general

More than 30 kilograms of cocaine with a value topping $1 million were seized after washing ashore last month at the Cape Canaveral Space Station in Florida, according to the U.S. Space Force.

Drugs worth roughly $220 million that were seized in international waters this year will be offloaded Wednesday in San Diego.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection says it caught a Georgia woman trying to smuggle cocaine in multiple pairs of shoes through the Atlanta airport.

A 40-year-old Long Island man went to a local medical facility Thursday and realized he forgot something when he returned home. He called up the place. Normally, such a call wouldn’t be problematic — except the thing the man allegedly thought he left behind at the East Garden City happened to be cocaine, cops say. Jose Espinosa called the medical…

Customs authorities in Ohio say they intercepted a shipment of cereal earlier this month with a special frosting — cocaine.

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.

Police in Milan’s airport stopped a suspicious shipment of coffee beans from Colombia. Upon further investigation, they found 500 beans filled with cocaine.

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.

Prosecutors accused the agent of infiltrating the U.S. DEA in 2011 and assisting a drug-trafficking ring known for slaughtering its rivals

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...

Orlando Dennis, the husband of the chief of staff to NY State Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie, was arrested early Monday at JFK airport by U.S. Homeland Security agents. Dennis, 31, faces charges of illegally importing cocaine, prosecutors say. Dennis, a delivery truck driver, is charged in a criminal complaint filed in U.S. District Court in Brooklyn. Dennis was arrested...

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.

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....