Heroin

U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers seized nearly 100 pounds of methamphetamine and heroin found in a pickup truck at a Texas-Mexico border crossing.

Customs and Border Protection officers in San Diego and Tucson seized more than 400 pounds of methamphetamine, heroin, cocaine, and fentanyl over the past weekend. The seizures took place at ports of entry in California and Arizona.

Britain’s National Crime Agency (NCA) has seized some 59 properties worth an estimated £17 million after busting an organised crime ring importing massive quantities of heroin into Britain from Pakistan. 

Border Patrol agents from the Tucson Sector encountered Mexican nationals hiking through the desert carrying backpacks. The agent seized more than 100 pounds of methamphetamine being carried by the “drug mules.”

Tucson Sector Customs and Border Protection officers seized more than 260 pounds of drugs as a woman allegedly attempted to move them through an Arizona port of entry. The interdiction led to the seizure of 51 pounds of fentanyl, 91 pounds of heroin, and 113 pounds of methamphetamine.

Tucson Sector Customs and Border Protection officers seized nearly 300,000 fentanyl pills, 25 pounds of heroin, and six pounds of cocaine at the Port of Nogales border crossing. The incident occurred as a U.S. citizen male allegedly attempted to smuggle the drugs into the country from Mexico.

Afghan farmers claim to have “no other choice” but to illegally grow poppies – a lucrative opium crop that fuels the country’s Taliban terror group – amid the economic downturn caused by the Chinese coronavirus pandemic, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) reported on Friday.

Yuma and San Diego Sector Border Patrol agents seized in excess of 200 pounds in methamphetamine, fentanyl, cocaine, and heroin at interior immigration checkpoints and through traffic stops in Arizona and California. Officials estimated the drugs to be worth more than $2 million.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers in California and Texas seized approximately 350 pounds of methamphetamine, cocaine, and heroin over the weekend. The seizures occurred as drivers attempted to enter the U.S. from Mexico.

Border Patrol agents and U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers seized more than 250 pounds of illicit drugs being smuggled into the United States from Mexico. The seizures happened in separate incidents in the Yuma and Tucson Sectors.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers in South Texas seized more than $18 million worth of methamphetamine, heroin, cocaine, and marijuana in a single drug smuggling incident.

A Virginia judge has sentenced a couple to 20 years each in prison in connection with the death of their two-month-old through a drug overdose, authorities said.

Three illegal aliens are among six accused drug dealers who were freed from jail by New York City officials after their arrests for allegedly operating a heroin-fentanyl packaging ring out of a Bronx apartment. 

New York’s newly implemented jailbreak policy has freed six accused drug dealers who allegedly operated a $7 million heroin-fentanyl packaging ring out of a Bronx, New York City, apartment.

The opioid crisis is killing young, white suburban Americans more than any other demographic in the United States for the second consecutive year.

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.

A heroin addict who allegedly dragged a policeman down a busy street with his car was awarded $11 million by a Bronx jury on Tuesday. 

A parent found what is suspected to be a bag of heroin in their child’s Halloween candy haul after attending a Trunk or Treat event at a New Jersey community center, police said Saturday.

Authorities arrested a Maine woman Tuesday morning nearly one year after her one-year-old daughter died because she rubbed a fatal dose of heroin on the infant’s gums.

An illegal alien, who had been previously deported from the United States, is accused of running a Mexico-to-Ohio drug trafficking operation from his prison cell in Youngstown, Ohio.

An illegal alien has been sentenced to a little more than six years in prison for planning to distribute enough fentanyl to kill half a million Americans, federal officials confirm.

Fully integrating Afghanistan into China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) will require the construction of rail lines through the southern part of the South Asian country, home to the Taliban’s primary stronghold and the nation’s top opium-producing region.

Federal authorities seized enough fentanyl to kill more than 14 million people following an investigation that covered Texas, North Carolina, and Virginia. The busts resulted in the arrests of 35 people and the seizure of distribution quantities of fentanyl, heroin, cocaine, and cocaine base. Investigators also found weapons and cash during a three-day operation.

Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos won a Nobel Peace Prize for giving terrorists unelected seats in Congress, disregarding the rejection of the Colombian people.

Police are investigating the discovery of a dead newborn baby found in a trash bag after a father reported “concerns about his unborn child.”

U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers in the Rio Grande Valley Sector seized more than 200 pounds of drugs during two smuggling attempts occurring on consecutive days at the Hidalgo-Reynosa International Bridge.

Beijing on Monday denied U.S. assertions that China is the top source of the deadly synthetic opioid fentanyl killing thousands of Americans each year.

Drought in Afghanistan last year decimated the cultivation and production of opium, but the deadly drug remains a threat to peace and security, the United Nations says in a report released Tuesday.

Five African migrants have been arrested in Rome this week after turning a local church into a headquarters for trafficking and hiding large amounts of heroin.

A court in Colombo, Sri Lanka, this week ordered the continued detention of nine Iranians caught with 107 kg of heroin this year, the local news outlet Ada Derana reported.