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A judge has rejected a Torres Strait father-of-eight’s “implausible” claim he thought 110kg of cocaine bricks were cannabis when he transported them by boat via three Torres Strait Islands to the ...

A judge has described as ‘implausible’ the idea that a man moving 110kg of plastic-wrapped, brick-shaped ‘stuff’ through the Torres Strait thought it was marijuana.

The business of cocaine trafficking has changed over the years, with different players and routes. A look at how the trade really works. The drug trafficking charge against Venezuela's former leader, ...

NEW YORK — A newly unsealed U.S. Justice Department indictment accuses captured Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro of running a “corrupt, illegitimate government” fueled by an extensive ...

BOGOTÁ, Colombia—Shortly before Christmas, a swarm of drones killed seven soldiers as they rested inside a military compound in the country’s northeast, unaware that a cocaine-trafficking guerrilla ...

SCOTLAND COUNTY, N.C. (WBTW) — A Scotland County man is facing a range of drug charges after authorities wrapped up a multi-year investigation that pulled up to $62,000 worth of cocaine off the ...

A federal judge sentenced a Raleigh man to 50 years in federal prison for leading a large-scale drug trafficking organization. The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of North Carolina ...

Video footage shows a French naval operation intercepting an unflagged vessel in the Caribbean with several dozen bales of cocaine, seizing about 2.3 tons of narcotics. French authorities have ...

Across Latin America, cocaine trafficking has surged as Washington has prioritized combating fentanyl. Times reporters traveled to Ecuador to see how criminal groups are wreaking havoc. By Maria ...