drug trafficking

U.S. Southern Command confirmed a deadly maritime strike against a suspected drug-trafficking vessel in the eastern Pacific Ocean. The operation marked the first publicly acknowledged attack since U.S. forces captured Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro earlier this month. Military officials said in a...

Former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández was found guilty in a New York federal courtroom Friday after the jury rendered its verdict after two weeks of argument. He was convicted on charges related to weapons possession and conspiracy to traffic over 500 tons of cocaine through his country...

Republican presidential candidate and Florida Governor Ron DeSantis suggested using drone strikes against Mexican drug cartels. What Happened: DeSantis, at an Iowa campaign event, said he would use “whatever force we need” to combat Mexican drug cartels, when asked if drone...

Brian Nelson, Treasury’s sanctions official, will travel to the southern border with Mexico on Tuesday as part of the department's ongoing effort to crack down on the deadly fentanyl trade. Nelson and Treasury officials will meet with law enforcement representatives, private financial...

Fifty members of the Hells Angel went on trial Monday in Spain where they’re being accused of drug trafficking, prostitution, arms and human trafficking, extortion and violence, including murder. First up as the trial began in Madrid on Monday was the gang’s ...

The drug bust aboard the container-ship MSC Gayane on June 17, 2019, was spectacular in every sense: the largest drug seizure in U.S. history, over a billion dollars' worth of cocaine, a ship operated by one of the world's largest carriers and owned by one of America's largest banks, a conspiracy...

Good day, Closing out a high-profile cannabis case that ignited outrage around the country, the county prosecutor in Ada County, Idaho, agreed to drop felony drug trafficking charges against a truck driver, Denis Palamarchuk, accused of illegally hauling hemp into the state last January. In court...