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 ...

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 ...

(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 ...

Coca crops and cocaine production in Colombia increased during 2023, as the government has stopped forced eradication efforts and concentrated on seizures to fight drug trafficking. Coca cultivation ...

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, ...

Lenin Erasmo Luna Mota, also known as "Papi," pleaded guilty to conspiracy to distribute 5 kilograms or more of cocaine mixture. Luna Mota used his Hagerstown appliance store, Top 3 Sources, as a hub ...

Two leaders of an armed drug trafficking ring in Warner Robins were sentenced to federal prison earlier this month by Chief U.S. District Judge Marc Treadwell after previously pleading guilty to the ...