#Drug Trafficking

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• 🇺🇸 Ecuador hikes tariffs to 100-percent in feud with neighbour Colombia — 09/04/2026 [USA]

  Daniel Noboa has accused Colombia's Gustavo Petro of failing to take 'effective measures' against drug trafficking.

  Related: #International Relations, #Trade Policy, #Security
• 🇺🇸 Matthew Perry's family reacts to "Ketamine Queen" sentencing — 09/04/2026 [USA]

  Jasveen Sangha, the woman described as the "Ketamine Queen," was sentenced Wednesday to 15 years in federal prison for her role in the death of "Friends" co-star Matthew Perry. Carter Evans reports.

  Related: #Celebrity Death, #Legal Accountability
• 🇺🇸 ‘Ketamine Queen’ Sentenced to 15 Years in Matthew Perry’s Overdose Death — 08/04/2026 [USA]

  Prosecutors say Jasveen Sangha’s customers knew her as the Ketamine Queen. She sold the ketamine that killed the “Friends” star in 2023.

  Related: #Celebrity Death, #Legal Consequences
• 🇺🇸 'Ketamine Queen' gets 15 years in prison for selling Matthew Perry the drugs that killed him — 08/04/2026 [USA]

  A federal judge on Wednesday handed down a sentence of 15 years in prison to a woman who pleaded guilty to selling "Friends" star Matthew Perry the ketamine that killed him in 2023.

  Related: #Celebrity Death, #Legal Consequences
• 🇺🇸 Police dog named Hulk sniffs out record 48 tons of marijuana — 08/04/2026 [USA]

  "All of this was thanks to the work of the dog," said the commander of the Canine Operations Battalion. "It wasn't based on intelligence."

  Related: #Law Enforcement, #Canine Units
• 🇺🇦 Одразу 54 обшуки у 7 областях: на Тернопільщині викрили масштабне наркоугруповання з мільйонними прибутками — 06/04/2026 [Ukraine]

  Правоохоронці Тернопільської області провели масштабну спецоперацію та викрили організовану наркогрупу, яка діяла на території України. У результаті затримано 10 осіб, а загальна вартість вилучених на...

  Related: #Law Enforcement Operation
• 🇺🇸 Police find $12 million worth of cocaine on smuggling boat off Puerto Rico — 23/03/2026 [USA]

  Cocaine with an estimated value of $12 million has been seized off the north coast of Puerto Rico, authorities said.

  Related: #Law Enforcement
• 🇺🇸 Fentanyl found inside Barbies sold at Missouri discount store, police say — 22/03/2026 [USA]

  Police found that five Barbie packages containing fentanyl were sold. They have all been recovered.

  Related: #Public Safety
• 🇺🇸 No Pills or Needles, Just Paper: How Deadly Drugs Are Changing — 21/03/2026 [USA]

  Lab-made drugs soaked into the pages of letters, books and even legal documents are being smuggled behind bars, killing inmates and frustrating investigators.

  Related: #Public Safety
• 🇺🇸 Colombian President Petro caught up in narcotics trafficking probes, sources say — 21/03/2026 [USA]

  The separate narco-trafficking investigations, based out of New York's Southern and Eastern districts, didn't set out to target Petro, but his name has come up during the course of the probes, one sou...

  Related: #Political Scandal
• 🇺🇸 DEA names Colombian President Petro 'priority target' amid U.S. probe of drug trafficker ties — 20/03/2026 [USA]

  Petro has consistently denied allegations of drug trafficking, particularly after Trump labeled him an "illegal drug leader" and the Treasury Department sanctioned him in late 2025 for alleged ties to...

  Related: #International Relations, #Political Scandal
• 🇺🇸 US says it struck alleged drug trafficking vessel in Pacific, killing two — 20/03/2026 [USA]

  In an initial statement, the US military said three people survived the strike but did not offer additional details.

  Related: #Military Action
• 🇺🇸 Accused Latin American drug lord arrives in U.S. after years on the run — 17/03/2026 [USA]

  Sebastian Marset, who eluded police for years, was captured in Bolivia last week and transferred to U.S. custody.

  Related: #Extradition
• 🇺🇸 Bolivian authorities capture drug kingpin Sebastian Marset in police raid — 13/03/2026 [USA]

  Marset was transferred into the custody of the United States, which has pushed for more aggressive antidrug tactics.

  Related: #Law Enforcement
• 🇬🇧 Bolivia arrests alleged drug kingpin accused of putting hit on Paraguayan prosecutor — 13/03/2026 [United Kingdom]

  <p>Bolivian interior ministry says Sebastián Marset is being extradited to US, where he’s wanted for money laundering</p><ul><li><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/news/2026/feb/17/sign-up-for-th...

  Related: #Organized Crime, #Law Enforcement
• 🇺🇸 Latin American drug kingpin wanted by U.S. is arrested in Bolivia — 13/03/2026 [USA]

  Notorious Latin American narco trafficker Sebastian Marset, who eluded police for years, was handed over to U.S. authorities after his arrest Friday in Bolivia.

  Related: #International Arrest
• 🇺🇸 Accused Uruguayan drug kingpin Marset captured in Bolivia, Paraguay official says — 13/03/2026 [USA] Related: #International Arrest
• 🇬🇧 Police raid barricaded homes in drug gangs crackdown — 13/03/2026 [United Kingdom]

  Police have carried out a month-long crackdown on so-called 'county lines' gangs - a model of drug dealing that targets local communities.

  Related: #Law Enforcement
• 🇺🇸 FBI opens first Ecuador office in fight against drug trafficking — 11/03/2026 [USA] Related: #Law Enforcement
• 🇺🇸 US military kills six in strike on alleged drug boat in the Eastern Pacific — 09/03/2026 [USA]

  The US military claims six men killed in a strike on a suspected drug-smuggling boat in the eastern Pacific Ocean.

  Related: #Military Action
• 🇬🇧 Belgium at risk of becoming ‘narco-state’, judge warns — 09/03/2026 [United Kingdom]

  <p>President of Antwerp court says international drug crime is posing danger to social stability in Belgium</p><p>International drug crime poses a danger to social stability in Belgium, a senior judge...

  Related: #Organized Crime, #National Security
• 🇺🇸 Strike on alleged drug boat kills 6 in Eastern Pacific, U.S. military says — 09/03/2026 [USA]

  The U.S. military says it has killed six men in a strike on an alleged drug-smuggling vessel in the eastern Pacific Ocean as part of the Trump administration's campaign against alleged traffickers.

  Related: #Military Action
• 🇬🇧 Woman jailed for smuggling heroin and 'terrifying' arsenal of guns into UK — 05/03/2026 [United Kingdom]

  A woman who smuggled an arsenal of "terrifying weapons" and £500,000 worth of heroin into Britain in her Peugeot has been jailed for nine years.

  Related: #Weapon Smuggling
• 🇬🇧 Ecuadorean troops find 35m-long 'narco-sub' hidden in nature reserve — 05/03/2026 [United Kingdom]

  Ecuador's military says the drug-trafficking submersible was loaded with fuel and "ready to go".

  Related: #Law Enforcement
• 🇺🇸 Bronx daycare providers sentenced to 25 to life in prison for fentanyl death of toddler — 04/03/2026 [USA]

  A New York City daycare owner and her husband were sentenced Wednesday in the fentanyl poisoning death of a 22-month-old boy in their care

  Related: #Child Safety, #Criminal Justice
• 🇺🇸 U.S. court convicts Japanese mafia leader for trafficking nuclear material — 04/03/2026 [USA]

  Takeshi Ebisawa was sentenced to 20 years in prison by a New York court after being convicted of trafficking nuclear material as well as drugs and weapons.

  Related: #International Crime, #Nuclear Proliferation, #Organized Crime
• 🇬🇧 US joins Ecuador in operations against 'narcoterrorists' — 04/03/2026 [United Kingdom]

  The US has joined forces in Ecuador in operations against "narcoterrorists" responsible for alleged illegal drug trafficking.

  Related: #International Cooperation, #Regional Security, #Geopolitics
• 🇺🇸 Officials seize over 5,000 pounds of meth from hidden Mexican lab — 26/02/2026 [USA]

  Naval personnel also seized "thousands of liters and kilos of chemical precursors," the Secretariat of the Navy said Wednesday.

  Related: #Law Enforcement, #Mexico-U.S Cooperation
• 🇬🇧 'Fear is everywhere': BBC reports from Mexican city turned into war zone by drug cartel feud — 25/02/2026 [United Kingdom]

  Culiacán in northern Mexico has seen a surge in violence as rival factions of the Sinaloa cartel battle for control.

  Related: #Cartel Violence, #Human Cost, #Power Struggles
• 🇺🇸 DEA memo from Epstein files raises question: Did he facilitate drug trafficking? — 23/02/2026 [USA]

  A memo shows Jeffrey Epstein was the subject of a previously undisclosed U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency investigation targeting him and 14 others for suspicious money transfers possibly linked to illega...

  Related: #Financial Crimes, #Government Investigations