6 h. ago Men who tried to smuggle £35k cocaine haul on boat jailed for 90 years

Investigators say the drugs would likely have "blighted countless lives and communities".

Economics

10 h. ago The Swansea fishing boat skipper 'at the heart' of £100m cocaine smuggling operation

A judge described it as a 'carefully planned and sophisticated attempt' to smuggle an 'extraordinary' amount of cocaine into the UK.

Economics

39 h. ago Brit beautician 'who smuggled £4.6m of cocaine' tried to trick ICE into deporting her to avoid jail

Kim Hall, 28, was caught with 43kg of suspected class A drugs in suitcases at Chicago’s O’Hare airport last August where she was due to get on her connecting flight home to Manchester

Economics

63 h. ago Man denies drug smuggling after almost '£1 million worth of cocaine found in wheelchair'

Casimiro De Lemos-Francisco appeared before a judge

Economics

2 w. 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.

Events

2 w. 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

Politics

2 w. 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.

Events

2 w. 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.

Events

2 w. 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

Politics

3 w. 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.

Events

3 w. ago The rise of the digital fishmonger: how Covid helped customers buy fresh from the boat

Britain’s traditional retailers were in decline for years. Then the pandemic changed how we buy food and boosted the fishing industryThe seafood chef and restaurateur Mitch Tonks recalls the moment things for him changed dramatically. It was March 2020, the start of Covid, when a local fishing boat skipper called him in a panic. “Nick was having a tough time; nobody was buying his catch, so I emailed our customer network,” he says.Tonks asked people to bring cash and containers. The next morning, Nick landed his boat at Brixham, the south Devon port that is England’s largest fish market by value of catch sold. “About 150 people turned up to buy his fish. Many asked ‘why can’t we just buy fish straight off boats like this normally?’” Continue reading...

Economics

3 w. 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

Economics

3 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.

Economics

3 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.

Events

3 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.

Economics

3 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

Events

4 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.

Economics

4 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