Tag: cocaine

• Thursday, February 3rd 2022 - 18:01 UTC

  20 dead, many others hospitalized due to tainted cocaine in Argentina

  

  Authorities in the Argentine town of Hurlingham, in the outskirts of Buenos Aires, Wednesday reported 20 people had died and 74 others had been hospitalized after consuming tainted cocaine.

• Thursday, February 25th 2021 - 09:37 UTC

  German Customs seize 23 tons of cocaine (from Paraguay) in biggest ever haul

  

  Investigators uncovered a total of 23 tons of cocaine with a street value of billions of Euros in a cross-European drugs bust, German customs said Wednesday. The cocaine was uncovered in Germany and Belgium.

• Wednesday, April 29th 2020 - 07:12 UTC

  Spanish police major catch in Galicia: four tons of cocaine and a drugs gang with a “fleet” of vessels and speedboats

  

  Spanish police said on Tuesday they had broken up an international drug-smuggling ring, seizing four tons of cocaine and arresting 28 people. The gang, which was made up of “experienced sailors and known traffickers”, was working with major national and international drug smugglers to “bring in cocaine shipments by sea”, a police statement said.

• Tuesday, November 26th 2019 - 08:55 UTC

  Spanish police seize a Colombian submarine with tons of cocaine in Galicia

  

  Police in Spain have seized a submarine carrying cocaine off the coast of the northwest Galicia region which had arrived from South America, officials said on Monday.

• Saturday, November 23rd 2019 - 09:23 UTC

  Another major haul of cocaine in the port of Montevideo: three tons headed for the Canary Islands

  

  Uruguayan authorities this week confiscated over three tons of cocaine from an Africa-bound rice container in the port of Montevideo. The container was originally from Paraguay and was set to stop in Tenerife, the largest of Spain's Canary Islands off West Africa, before finally arriving in Cotonou, in southern Benin, the National Customs Directorate said in a statement.

• Thursday, September 26th 2019 - 08:40 UTC

  US and Colombia intercept homemade submarine with five tons of cocaine

  

  A homemade submarine carrying more than five tons of cocaine was intercepted in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of South America, the US Coast Guard said.

• Friday, September 13th 2019 - 11:43 UTC

  Australian giant seal helps catch a drug smuggling gang with US$ 690 million in cocaine

  

  Australian police have thwarted a billion-dollar international drug smuggling operation, reportedly with the help of a giant seal. An international investigation into the drug gang reached its climax last week after an abandoned yacht was found on the shoreline of Stick Island, off the coast of Western Australia, sparking a search for its occupants.

• Saturday, August 3rd 2019 - 12:42 UTC

  Illegal coca plantations in Colombia down slightly in 2018, but still the world's biggest producer

  

  Illegal coca plantations in Colombia reduced slightly in 2018 but the country remains the world's biggest producer of the primary ingredient in cocaine production, the United Nations said on Friday.

• Saturday, August 3rd 2019 - 11:06 UTC

  Largest cocaine bust in Germany, 4.500 kilos, was shipped from Montevideo

  

  German customs have confiscated a record 4.5 metric tons (5 short tons) of cocaine in a shipping container in Hamburg, with a street value of nearly €1 billion (US$ 1.1 billion). The drugs were discovered two weeks ago during a routine check, resulting in the largest cocaine shipment ever seized in Germany.

• Tuesday, July 23rd 2019 - 09:39 UTC

  Brazil seizes record volumes of cocaine, mostly in the Santos port hub

  

  Brazil seized 25.3 tons of cocaine bound for Europe and Africa in the first half of 2019, up more than 90 percent on the same period last year, officials said on  Monday. Nearly half of the drugs were found at Santos port in southern Brazil, not far from where police recently arrested two men suspected of belonging to Italian mafia 'Ndrangheta'.