The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said in a memo this week it opposes ending President Donald Trump’s tariffs on Canada to the flow of illicit drugs across the northern border.
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.
A Detroit-area public school teacher was arrested after allegedly making a drug deal in public, police said.
Officials arrested a second DHS agent in Utah who is accused in an illicit drug case involving evidence belonging to the department.
Six people are facing charges of murder and endangering the welfare of a child after an infant died from exposure to meth and fentanyl in Lincoln County, Missouri, according to law enforcement.
President Joe Biden commuted the sentence of a woman who was sentenced to 15 years in prison over conspiring to manufacture and distribute an altered and more potent version of fentanyl.
President Joe Biden commuted the sentence of a man who was sentenced to ten years in prison for his involvement in a New York woman’s fentanyl overdose death.
The young adult mortality rate in California remains significantly higher than the pre-pandemic rate, with officials attributing the majority of the spike in deaths to drug overdoses.
A far-left French MP was caught buying drugs from a minor in Paris in the latest scandal to beset the leftist New Popular Front coalition.
A New York City man has been hit with a 45-year prison sentence for running a fentanyl mill out of a daycare center, leading to the overdose death of a toddler last year, officials said.
Portland, Oregon, police discovered drugs in a bag that had “Definitely Not a bag full of Drugs” printed on it while conducting a traffic stop on a stolen car, law enforcement officials said.
Former President Donald Trump announced “Operation Aurora,” aimed at expediting the removal of “every criminal network operating” in the United States, such as the Venezuelan Tren de Aragua (TdA) gang.
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 Memphis, Tennessee, woman is now raising five of her grandchildren after losing her two daughters to fentanyl just months apart.
A South Carolina mother was arrested in connection with the May fentanyl death of her ten-month-old baby Aminah Gathers, Live 5 News reported on Monday.
More than $1 million worth of cocaine was washed onto a Florida beach as Hurricane Debby reached Florida, bringing heavy rains and flooding.
A California mother is facing charges after her 18-month-old baby died of suspected fentanyl poisoning, the Los Angeles Times reported.
A Tennessee woman is accused of aggravated child neglect after a one-month-old baby in her care overdosed on fentanyl on Saturday, according to the Metro Nashville Police Department.
Fentanyl has “largely fueled” a staggering increase in youth overdose deaths since the start of the coronavirus pandemic, according to recent Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) data.
The United States Capitol Police (USCP) announced on Wednesday that they are investigating a “zip lock bag” left inside the agency’s headquarters building that contained a “small amount” of cocaine.
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.
Swedish customs made one of the country’s biggest-ever cocaine seizures after confiscating around 1.4 tons of the drug near Stockholm.
Germany’s hardliner covid boss has succeeded in pushing through his cannabis legalisation pet project in the teeth of opposition.
A K-9 Officer in Lane County, Oregon, is being praised for helping make two significant back-to-back drug busts which potentially saved lives.
Republican Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin vetoed a bill on Thursday that would have legalized the sale of recreational cannabis.
A Texas family is mourning a high schooler who died of a suspected fentanyl overdose after making just “one mistake.”
A police officer in Greece was arrested on drugs charges for allegedly using his service car to smuggle marijuana.
Elon Musk’s alleged use of illegal drugs has reportedly become a source of concern for executives and board members at Tesla and SpaceX, potentially threatening the stability and future of these tech giants.
A Nebraska woman is accused of child abuse after her baby tested positive for methamphetamine and cocaine.
President Joe Biden’s administration will reportedly loosen laws regulating cannabis (marijuana), which some advocates say amounts to only a symbolic gesture that will ultimately change nothing.
The U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) intercepted more than 18,000 pounds of cocaine in six drug busts in November, officials announced Wednesday.
The Scottish government has proposed decriminalising drugs for personal use to tackle one of Europe’s highest overdose death rates.
Three United Nations staff members were arrested in Israel on suspicion of attempting to smuggle cocaine into the country from Jordan.
An American think-tank has launched a lawsuit demanding that the U.S. government hand over files relating to Prince Harry’s visa application in light of his drug taking.
Most voters are concerned about the fentanyl pouring over the southern border, a Convention of States Action/ Trafalgar Group survey released this week found.
An Illinois teenager has been arrested for allegedly selling “fentanyl-laced counterfeit pills that were intended to resemble legitimate prescription medications,” according to police.
The UK government has announced a new ban on “hippy crack” despite the fact that police in the country often ignore existing drug-related crime.
A Florida high school coach was arrested Saturday for allegedly trafficking fentanyl, according to police.
The family of a child who died of a fentanyl overdose while staying in a Florida Airbnb rental is suing the property owner, the property manager, and a previous tenant for wrongful death, according to the lawsuit.
Britain’s Border Force has reportedly been ordered to “deprioritise” searches for guns and drugs entering the UK in order to keep immigration lines flowing.
