Drug dealers whose entire organized crime network was destroyed by a photo of a French bulldog have been ordered to pay more than $1.4 million, said the UK’s National Crime Agency. Stefan Baldauf, 64, and Philip Lawson, 63, were drug traffickers arrested in 2020 as part of Operation Venetic along with other members of their … Read more
One of Colombia’s legendary drug lords and a Key operator of the Medellín cartel expelled to this South American country, after serving 25 years of a 30-year prison sentence in the United States. Soon after, Fabio Ochoa was a free man again. Ochoa arrived at Bogota’s El Dorado Airport on a deportation flight Monday, wearing … Read more
Damascus — In a remote corner outside Damascus, Syria, a now-abandoned potato chip factory reveals one of the world’s many dark but revealed secrets. fallen regime of Bashar al-Assad. A CBS News crew gained access to the site and found a warehouse stocked with industrial-scale hydrochloric acid and acetic acid, which are chemical precursors needed … Read more
Bolivia’s former counternarcotics chief was extradited to the United States on Thursday to face federal drug trafficking charges in a New York court. Authorities said Maximiliano Dávila, who served as counternarcotics chief during the final months of Evo Morales’ administration from 2006 to 2019, helped facilitate plane shipments of cocaine to the United States. United. … Read more
Authorities in dozens of countries seized 225 tons of cocaine during a six-week mega-operation in which they uncovered a new trafficking route across the Pacific, from South America to Australia, the Colombian Navy announced on Wednesday. Authorities said they also seized “increasingly sophisticated” drug-laden semi-submersibles – better known as “narco submarines” – which can go … Read more