18 h. ago Inside depot where Border Force officers thwart international drug smugglers

Speaking inside the depot, where a constant stench of cannabis fills the air, Director General for Border Force, Phil Douglas, revealed: 'In the last three months of last year, we seized 15 tonnes of cannabis'

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3 d. ago Texas residents get surprise Easter gift washing up on coastline — packages of cocaine dumped by panicked smugglers

The packages were reportedly tossed into the ocean by smugglers hoping to evade capture during a drug raid

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3 d. ago Drug mule who 'ran out of money' while on holiday in Thailand caught trying to smuggle 48kg of cannabis through Manchester Airport

Bernard Kennedy, 46, travelled from Bangkok via Dubai but was left waiting at Manchester Airport when his suitcases were delayed on March 20 this year.

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5 d. ago Brit on death row in Bali for drug smuggling reunites with family

British cocaine trafficker Lindsay Sandiford, 67, has spent over 12 years on death row in Bali's Kerobokan jail, but new laws in Indonesia have given her hope of freedom.

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8 d. ago Couple travel 300 miles to try and smuggle £1,800 worth of 'the drug of the moment' into music festival

Erin Gallacher, 23, and her then boyfriend Keir Lyons, were arrested at Creamfields festival in Runcorn, Cheshire

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1 week ago White Lotus drug ring smashed: Alleged British ringleader of a smuggling gang shipping cannabis from the hit TV show island to London is arrested

Adel Mohammed, 30, allegedly controlled the network of Brits picking up marijuana from farms on Koh Samui in southern Thailand.

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1 week ago White Lotus drug ring smashed: Alleged British ringleader of a smuggling gang shipping cannabis from the hit T

White Lotus drug ring smashed: Alleged British ringleader of a smuggling gang shipping cannabis from the hit T  Daily Mail

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2 w. ago Drug traffickers used foie gras and duck breast to smuggle 97kg of cocaine worth £8m across the Channel in the back of a transit van

The group tried to bring in the drugs by entering Newhaven in East Sussex from Dieppe in northern France in November 2019.

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2 w. ago Dramatic moment Coast Guard swoops on drug cartel smuggling $500m of cocaine and marijuana

The US Coast Guard seized more than 48,000 pounds of illegal drugs valued at just over $500 million on Jan. 6, just off the coast of Ecuador.

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2 w. ago Drug trafficker jailed for smuggling £22.8m cocaine in dry ice for 'London hospital'

Bart Verschueren, 40, was sentenced on Thursday at Canterbury Crown Court

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2 w. ago Drug smuggler said he was bringing dry ice in for London hospital... but inside lorry was 285kg of cocaine with a street value of £22.8MILLION

Bart Verschueren, 40, was the man behind at least one drug operation which aimed to smuggle in 285kg of cocaine into the country.

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2 w. ago Drug smuggler hid cocaine worth £22.8m under dry ice he claimed was for London hospital

Bart Verschueren has been jailed for 18 years for the smuggling plot

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2 w. ago Two glamorous drug mules caught trying to smuggle £160K worth of cannabis into UK turn to OnlyFans to make cash after avoiding jail

Sophie Bannister, 30, and Levi-April Whalley, 31, have posted a series of provocative pictures of themselves in an attempt to earn money from the online platform.

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2 w. ago Glamorous drug mule caught trying to smuggle 35kg of cannabis into UK wants to visit SCHOOLS so she can urge kids to stay away from life of crime

Shamed ex-nurse Levi-April Whalley, 31, from Blackburn, Lancashire, said she would like to 'open people's eyes' to the risks of drug smuggling, after she was arrested in 2023.

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3 w. ago Inside the lavish lives of the glam drug smuggling pals caught with £160,000 worth of cannabis in their luggage

Pals Sophie Bannister and Levi-April Whalley from Blackburn, were snared with 35kg of the Class B drug in their luggage as they returned from a trip to New York in December 2023.

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3 w. ago Drug smuggling pals found with 35kg of cannabis in their luggage at UK airport

Sophie Bannister and Levi-April Whalley, both 30 were caught with more than £160,000 worth of cannabis in their suitcases as they landed back on UK soil from a 'shopping' trip to New York.

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3 w. ago UK's most DANGEROUS gangsters revealed: Britain's FBI reveals which criminals pose the biggest threat to our security as they wield control over money laundering, drug smuggling and human trafficking

EXCLUSIVE: The NCA revealed that mobsters from the country pose the biggest foreign organised crime threat to the UK, a finding that's taken even experts by surprise.

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3 w. ago Britain's most dangerous gangsters: Why Chinese criminals now pose biggest threat to UK security as they wield control over money laundering, drug smuggling and human trafficking

EXCLUSIVE: The NCA revealed that mobsters from the country pose the biggest foreign organised crime threat to the UK, a finding that's taken even experts by surprise.

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4 w. ago Scots gangster jailed over "key role" in South American cartel drug smuggling ring

Stephen Gough was caught after encrypted calls on Encrochat phone platform tied him into drug dealing conversations with jailed co-accused "Mr Nice" Tony Bennett.

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