drug dealing

Earlier this month an apartment in Östermalm was rocked by a large explosion. Now investigators claim the residence was used as a centre to distribute illegal drugs to wealthy clients.

Three people were wounded on Christmas day following a shootout between drug gang members involving military-grade automatic weapons. 

Police in several European countries have arrested dozens of suspected Nigerian mafia members as the crime organisation spreads across Italy and elsewhere.

ROME (AP) — Police in Italy say they have arrested 19 people, most from Tanzania, as part of dismantling a heroin ring involving more than 150 suspects in Africa, Asia and Europe.

The number of drug dealing ‘county lines’ have nearly tripled across the country in one year, while the networks are fueling the rise in London crime.

Six asylum seekers in the Italian city of Savona have been arrested for attempting to sell drugs to children outside schools in the city and posing as minors.

A drug dealer has been sentenced to 14 years behind bars for trafficking children across the country to make sales in other towns in the first conviction of its kind in the UK.

Eight men have been imprisoned as part of a massive police operation to smash drugs gangs in east London which has seen 50 suspects charged.

Italian military police arrested seven Gambian migrants in a sting operation in southern Italy early Tuesday morning, charging them with the sale of narcotics including to minors.

A 16-year-old male has been arrested following the fatal stabbing of a man after an alleged turf “running battle” broke out between rival gangs in Edmonton, North London.

A senior Metropolitan Police officer has said that the weapons used in stabbings have got bigger, the injuries worse, and the attacks more “feral” in the past five years as London’s violent crime spree continues.

There have been three stabbings in broad daylight and seven arrests in dawn raids on an organised drug-trafficking gang in one 24-hour period in Sadiq Khan’s London.

French police have arrested three people after an African migrant drug dealer was beaten to death in broad daylight by a gang of teenagers in southern France.

An 18-year-old Syrian was granted asylum in Austria by the country’s asylum authority despite the migrant being on trial for selling hard drugs to young girls at the time of the decision.

Three Austrian plainclothes police officers were injured after they attempted to arrest two teenage Afghan asylum seekers who had offered to sell them drugs.

The number of sex attacks in the no-go zone of Alexanderplatz, Berlin, has almost doubled over the past year.

French police have confirmed they “disguised” themselves by dressing in an Islamic burka and kaftan during an operation targeting a suspected drug dealer.

An Internal Revenue Service (IRS) attorney based in Washington, D.C. was arrested for allegedly shipping methamphetamine from his apartment to Long Island, New York over the past few years.

MONTERREY, Nuevo Leon — The son of a top Mexican politician who aspired to be a politico himself, had become the latest victim of cartel violence in this city. He was shot by police in a drug deal gone bad.

On Wednesday, federal and local law enforcement officials crushed a huge heroin operation in Chicago, arresting or naming 42 defendants in the roundup. The apparent ringleader of the operation, James Triplett, 33, also known as “Trell,” had the entire city block of 3700 W. Grenshaw under the sway of his dealings, supplying heroin wholesale. He even had “shift workers” working 24/7.

A Nigerian drug dealer who was caught with nearly £500,000 in cocaine will not be deported because of EU rules. Cletus Okpala, 29, was jailed for 52 months in 2012 and was told he would be forced to the leave