50 h. ago Former champion boxer who helped £140m cocaine smuggling gang in EncroChat conspiracy is jailed for eight years

Ex-British boxing champion Carl 'Dynamite' Dilks used an encrypted communications platform to traffic wholesale quantities of cocaine.

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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 Raver jailed after trying to smuggle drugs into Creamfields inside Irn

Blake Holmes from Dalkeith has been jailed for 32 months in prison after he attempted to smuggle MDMA, ketamine and cocaine into the popular dance music festival in Darlesbury.

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5 d. ago Lauren Price gets engaged to girlfriend in stunning Welsh location

The world champion boxer's new fiancee said it was the 'easiest yes' after she popped the question

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6 d. ago Death row drugs gran hugs grandchildren for the first time as family visit Bali hellhole prison

Lindsay Sandiford, 67, has spent 12 years awaiting execution by firing squad at the notorious Kerobokan Prison, having been found attempting to smuggle cocaine into the Indonesian island.

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6 d. ago ‘You’ll never amount to anything’: the boxing world champion you’ve never heard of

Australian Diana Prazak was told she wouldn’t make it as a boxer. She’s just been inducted into the International Women’s Boxing Hall of FameThe soft early evening spring light floods the room behind the world champion you’ve probably never heard of. In front of a big poster of a shirtless Bruce Lee adorning her wall, Diana Prazak smiles and laughs often as she talks about her most unlikely career and her road to the top.The expatriate from Melbourne is arguably the most successful professional boxer that Australia has produced – she attained the ranking of best active professional boxer pound-for-pound in 2014 – but celebration of her world champion status remains disappointingly muted in her home country. Continue reading...

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7 d. ago Desperate cops launch global manhunt for shadowy underworld's 'Urban Flamingo'

The underworld figure is said to have masterminded the ring from Spain in a operation which saw cocaine smuggled into Britain in consignments of fish, duck and foie gras

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9 d. ago Drugs courier who smuggled £5.6m of cocaine into Scotland jailed

Kristopher Purvis, 35, of Durham, was sentenced to 10 years behind bars at the High Court in Edinburgh on Wednesday.

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1 week ago Irish crime family's rise to 'super cartel' – feuds, botched hits and champion boxer shot

Between 2015 and 2018 Ireland was gripped by a violent gangland war sparked by a series of bloody shootings in Spain's Costa del Crime which threatened to bring down a global drugs empire

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1 week ago Kingpin's expensive tastes led to downfall after £8m cocaine haul hidden by fois gras

Michael Keating, of Uxbridge, tried to smuggle 100kg of cocaine into the UK using a transit van filled with fine dining items and a hidden compartment hidden under the floor

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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 Love Island star, 30, dubbed 'Barbie' was actually 'business brain' for £53m cocaine smuggling gang, court is told

Magdalena Sadlo, 30, used her management skills to painstakingly prepare criminal accounts for top table crooks in the Middle East.

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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

Economics

2 w. ago Gang who smuggled £17m of cocaine into Britain from the Netherlands before police found them holing up in Norfolk holiday let decades in prison

The group, who brought in cocaine from the Netherlands to distribute throughout London, were found hiding out at a holiday let in Norfolk.

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3 w. ago Airport security uncover £1m drug stash inside electric wheelchair

The National Crime Agency says the concealment ‘shows the ingenuity crime groups employ to smuggle cocaine’

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3 w. ago A Dumfries boxer has been crowned Scottish Elite Golden Gloves Champion 2025

Josh Hunter lifted the title at Boxing Scotland's Elite Scottish Championships in Motherwell.

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3 w. ago World champion boxer Tevin Farmer reveals Tourette’s diagnosis amid fan ‘concern’

Farmer held the IBF super-featherweight belt from 2017 until 2020 and came close to winning WBC lightweight gold on Saturday

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