Drug Trafficking

A high school dean in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, is accused of running a drug trafficking organization, the FBI announced.

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.

Liberal Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau arrived in Palm Beach, Florida, on Friday evening to meet with President-elect Donald Trump, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) reported.

Mexico’s President Claudia Sheinbaum fired a warning at incoming U.S. President-elect Donald Trump over his threats to impose tariffs because of the ongoing immigration and drug trafficking issue.

President-elect Donald Trump has kicked off his diplomacy by promising a 25 percent tariff until Mexico and Canada shut down their inflows of migrants and deadly drugs.

Authorities in Spain announced the recent arrest of a Sinaloa Cartel cell that they had linked to drug trafficking, ransom kidnapping, and murders in that country. As part of the raids tied to the cell, Spanish authorities also dismantled a lab that cartel members used to remove synthetic drugs that had been infused into clothing to smuggle them into the country.

The recent discovery of the largest drug lab in Canada’s history highlights the ongoing expansion and sophistication of Canadian drug gangs. The gangs have developed international connections with Mexican drug cartels and U.S. criminal organizations.

A police K-9 in Anderson, California, is getting lots of praise for his work on Sunday in detecting an extremely dangerous substance.

Urban pacification squads will be deployed to a drug gang-plagued French suburb Friday night after a brawl involving hundereds but no arrests.

President Joe Biden’s border crisis will do more harm to Americans if Kamala Harris wins the election said Wisconsin Sheriff Dale Schmidt.

The recent drug sentencing of a man who was at one time considered Mexico’s top law enforcement official has continued to fuel a slew of allegations about which former Mexican president, if any, did not have ties or dealings with drug cartels during their respective administration.

Nearly 14 pounds of powdered fentanyl and 50,000 pressed pills were reportedly seized by police at Phoenix Sky-Harbor International Airport in Arizona after a woman’s luggage triggered a TSA screening system.

A recently-elected Vermont school board member has resigned after pleading not guilty to heroin and fentanyl trafficking charges in Massachusetts.

The president of a Texas border-area school board pleaded guilty to his role in a drug trafficking conspiracy. The conspiracy involved key members of the political leadership of that city. The guilty plea comes just one week after the mayor of that city also pleaded guilty to the same charge.

CLAIM: Sen. JD Vance (R-OH) said some migrant children are “used as drug trafficking mules” during Tuesday night’s vice presidential debate. VERDICT: TRUE. A law enforcement official explained to Vance at an event last month that drug traffickers, when traveling

Drug-related deaths skyrocketed under the Biden-Harris administration, the New York Times admitted Friday, underscoring the lack of border security. 

A former Texas border city mayor pleaded guilty to federal drug trafficking conspiracy charges in a plot that allegedly involved his successor, a local school board president, and several others in moving cocaine shipments from South Texas to Houston.

U.S. Sens. Rick Scott (R-FL) and Marco Rubio (R-FL) introduced a bill on Thursday that seeks to increase the bounty on Venezuela’s socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro from $15 million to $100 million.

A top Mexican Army general claimed that security in the state of Sinaloa is not up to the country’s military but rather to the rival faction of the Sinaloa Cartel that is waging a fierce turf war that left dozens dead in a matter of days.

Federal prosecutors allege that two officers with U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s Office of Field Operations spent years working with an unnamed drug cartel.  The officers allegedly allowed the criminal organization to move large amounts of fentanyl, methamphetamines, cocaine, and heroin through their inspection lanes,  court documents revealed.

Two family members of Honduras’ Socialist far-left radical President Xiomara Castro resigned from their government positions over the weekend amid an ongoing probe of alleged ties with drug traffickers against lawmaker Carlos Zelaya, President Castro’s brother-in-law.

Enough fentanyl to kill 2.5 million Americans was seized in a South Carolina drug investigation, the FBI announced Monday.

Sen. JD Vance (R-OH) received a law enforcement briefing on how drug traffickers have been making dangerous narcotics look like candy.

The Citrus County Sheriff’s Office in Florida recently seized a massive amount of fentanyl that could have killed three million people.

An Arizona mother-son duo were arrested after allegedly attempting to smuggle thousands of fentanyl pills through an Illinois suburb.

Federal prosecutors in Texas claim that a Chinese national helped provide Mexican cartels with multi-ton quantities of fentanyl precursors. The man allegedly would have the chemicals shipped from China to the U.S. and then have the chemicals smuggled into Mexico, where drug cartels would manufacture fentanyl.

Police in western Colorado came away from a high-speed chase on Friday with 48 pounds — about 220,000 pills — of fentanyl, officials said.

The drug policy changes that Colombia’s far-left President Gustavo Petro enacted have led to a dramatic surge in cocaine production.

A recently unsealed indictment from a U.S. federal court claims that Venezuela’s dictator Nicolás Maduro is involved in the drug trade.

Pope Francis pulled no punches in his condemnation of drug dealers, calling them “murderers” and drug liberalization laws a “fantasy.”

The Supreme Court ruled against a drug mule fighting her conviction by claiming expert testimony violated federal evidentiary rules. 

The House Committee on Natural Resources will hold a hearing on President Joe Biden’s border crisis and efforts to combat criminal cartels and drug trafficking on Tuesday, June 4.

A home day care owner in Boston, Massachusetts, was reportedly allowed to retain her license after being indicted in a federal drug case.

The First Capital Command (PCC), Brazil’s largest transnational organized crime syndicate and Latin America’s largest drug trafficking gang, has managed to establish a foothold in Sydney, Australia, according to a report published by the Argentine news outlet Infobae on Thursday.

Gunmen from the Sinaloa Cartel dumped bodies, torched vehicles, and fought with authorities, spreading terror through the state of Zacatecas during the last four days. Government officials claim that the fierce violence is tied to the killing of a local cartel leader.