A Florida sheriff reports that a beachgoer found nearly half a million dollars worth of cocaine washed up on a beach. Deputies seized the approximately 25 kilos of cocaine. This is the second reported seizure of cocaine on a regional beach in the past few days.
British authorities seized 2.4 metric tons of cocaine in a ship arriving in England from Panama, authorities said Saturday, calling it one of the U.K.’s biggest drug busts in years.
The Trump effect appears to have spread to Ecuador as authorities there arrested one of their most significant, violent drug lords.
A Houston-area member of the Tren de Aragua (TdA) foreign terrorist organization is now on the FBI’s Most Wanted List. The Venezuelan illegal alien is reportedly the first TdA gang member to be added to this notorious list.
The European Union Drugs Agency´s annual report released on Thursday found that in 2023 cocaine seizures in Europe hit a record.
A jury in Tarrant County, Texas, handed down a life sentence following a jury trial under the state’s new law that charges a fentanyl dealer with murder if a customer dies from the drug. The district attorney pledges that more of these fentanyl murder cases will be tried to send a message to drug traffickers.
Federal prosecutors unsealed a 29-count indictment for a drug trafficking scheme after 15 people were arrested in the Southern District of Texas. Those arrested included two illegal aliens from Mexico and Guatemala and a Mexican national with Legal Permanent Resident (LPR) status.
Federal authorities arrested several members of a cartel-connected Houston-based drug ring that allegedly used taco trucks to store and distribute different kinds of drugs. The group reportedly moved large quantities of multiple drugs including heroin, meth, cocaine, mushrooms, pills and marijuana.
The U.S. State Department on Monday announced a reward of up to $10 million for information leading to the “disruption of financial mechanisms” in South America for the Iran-backed Lebanese terrorist group Hezbollah.
A man who entered the country as an asylum seeker will be spending five years in federal prison for his role in a fentanyl trafficking conspiracy responsible for moving thousands of pills. The man had previously requested asylum, claiming “credible fear” of Mexican cartels.
A U.S. news organization used a series of fixers to be able to travel into Mexico and publish a news story where they try to paint a Mexican cartel behind thousands of brutal killings, forced disappearances, and arson attacks targeting innocent civilians in a positive light.
The U.S. Department of the Treasury announced financial sanctions on three Mexican nationals and two Mexico-based entities allegedly involved in a drug trafficking and fuel theft network linked to the Cartel Jalisco Nueva Generacion (CJNG). The sanctions have been coordinated through the Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) in conjunction with multiple federal law enforcement agencies. The intent is to disrupt the CJNG cartel’s ability to continue reaping profits from fentanyl trafficking and large-scale fuel smuggling activities.
The Department of Justice filed multiple federal charges against 27 members of the hyperviolent Tren de Aragua Venezuelan gang on Monday. The charges include Racketeering, Narcotics and Sex Trafficking, Robbery, and Firearms offenses. DOJ officials say this marks the first time RICO charges have been filed against Tren de Aragua gang members.
Radical left involvement is being considered by counter-terrorism police after prisons, and prison officers at home were targeted nationwide.
A law enforcement K-9 made a big discovery during a traffic stop on an Oklahoma highway Wednesday morning.
The crew of U.S. Coast Guard Cutter James offloaded approximately 48,000 pounds of illicit narcotics with a street value estimated to be worth more than $509 million at Port Everglades, Florida, on Wednesday. The offloaded contraband, a result of thirteen offshore interdictions in international waters, will involve 11 separate criminal cases.
A former University of New Mexico football player could be sentenced to life in prison after being convicted on federal drug charges.
President of Ecuador Daniel Noboa said on Tuesday that he asked President Donald Trump in a private meeting for U.S. military operations to combat drug trafficking in the South American nation.
A joint federal law enforcement operation conducted in Lubbock, Texas, led to the arrest of 22 suspected members of a narcotics trafficking ring working in West Texas. According to FBI Director Kash Patel, one member of the ring is suspected
The United States Navy deployed an Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer to support border security operations. A contingent of U.S. Coast Guard law enforcement personnel will augment the ship’s crew.
Two brothers who were the supreme leaders of Los Zetas cartel are currently facing a possible life term in prison or a death sentence if they are convicted of the numerous charges against them filed against them by U.S. prosecutors. Earlier this year, the U.S. government designated Los Zetas, who have rebranded as Cartel Del Noreste (CDN), as one of six Mexican cartels as Foreign Terrorist Organizations (FTO).
Mexican authorities seized $6.5 million worth of fentanyl stashed inside boxes of sliced cactus, a Mexican food staple called nopales.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is not ruling out military strikes on fentanyl labs in Mexico, he said in a recent interview with Fox News’s Laura Ingraham.
President Donald Trump has confirmed that his proposed tariffs on Mexico and Canada will begin on March 4, with an “additional 10 percent tariff” likely to be charged to China.
The Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation holds a hearing on combatting drug trafficking on Wednesday, February 26.
Las autoridades de México arrestaron a un fugitivo que era el líder de una organización familiar de narcotráfico que trabajaba con varios cárteles que desde principios de la década de 2000 establecieron rutas desde Guatemala hasta la frontera con Texas. El fugitivo se escondía en un lujoso vecindario en el estado fronterizo de Nuevo León.
Authorities in Mexico arrested an elusive fugitive who was the alleged leader of a family-run drug smuggling operation that worked with various cartels which, since the early 2000s, established routes from Guatemala to the Texas border. The fugitive was hiding in a ritzy neighborhood in the border state of Nuevo Leon.
In three separate events in the Border Patrol’s Rio Grande Valley Sector, agents seized nearly 560 pounds of cocaine with an estimated street value of $18 million. Two seizures occurred at a fixed highway checkpoint after routine immigration inspections. The third seizure resulted from a roving patrol stop initiated by Border Patrol agents. The three seizures were reported within hours of each other on Sunday morning.
Mexico’s government has been hyping up minor seizures and cartel arrests as part of a PR strategy attempting to appease the Trump administration. Trump officials highlighted Meixco’s inaction against cartels and corruption. The American president has threatened them with tariffs and other punitive measures.
United States taxpayers have sent more than $3 billion to Mexico since 2008 to combat the drug cartels that have mercilessly flooded illicit narcotics, including fentanyl, into the country. Despite the infusion of U.S. tax dollars funneled to Mexico through the Department of State’s Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs (INL) and USAID, the cartels have become stronger rather than weaker.
No arrests after “kalashnikov” shooting on public transport lines being shut down to allow police to hunt suspects in subway tunnels.
The Senate Judiciary Committee holds a hearing on the ongoing fentanyl drug crisis in America on Tuesday, February 4.
A former Hidalgo County Sheriff’s Office deputy in South Texas will spend almost four years in prison for his role in staging fake drug busts as a way to steal drugs from drug cartel members.
Angel Moms whose children were murdered by illegal aliens or poisoned by fentanyl are calling for the rapid confirmation of Gov. Kristi Noem (R-SD), President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee for secretary of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
Incoming Border Czar Tom Homan celebrated the discovery of three drug smuggling tunnels used by Mexican cartels along the Arizona border. U.S. and Mexican law enforcement teamed up and used drone technology to discover the tunnels.
Maximiliano Davila-Perez, once the Director of the Bolivian Special Forces for the Fight Against Drug Trafficking (FELCN), has been extradited to the United States where he faces federal charges of conspiring to import cocaine into the United States. He is also charged with conspiracy to use and possess automatic weapons in connection with his cocaine importation scheme. The United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York announced Davila-Perez’ extradition from Bolivia on Friday.
A high school dean in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, is accused of running a drug trafficking organization, the FBI announced.
Five men with alleged ties to the violent Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua are under arrest after Texas state and local police found $1 million in drugs in a Houston apartment. In addition to the drugs, police seized 24 firearms.
Seventeen people allegedly linked to a drug cartel were indicted by a Denver grand jury on Monday and accused of being involved in stealing nearly 200 cars and trading them to drug cartel members.
Heavily armed men released a video threatening Argentine Security Minister Patricia Bullrich and Santa Fe Governor Maximiliano Pullaro.
