Drug Smuggling

The cat, which was carrying packets of cocaine, crack, and marijuana in a pouch around its middle, was captured and inspected when prison staff became suspicious.

Drug seizures overall peaked in December 2020, when 1,175 pounds of illegal narcotics were taken, compared with 110 pounds the year before.

Similar improvised submarines have been used to transport drugs into the United States in recent years.

The USS Gabrielle Giffords intercepted an alleged narco sub containing a massive haul of suspected cocaine and three suspected drug traffickers.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection said officers intercepted a tractor-trailer at the Pharr International Bridge cargo facility in Pharr, Texas.

A pleasure boat carrying more than a ton of cocaine was captured during a rough Atlantic storm by an international team of law enforcement officials.

Boy was found with bags of meth with a street value of more than $106,000 near the Otay Mesa Port of Entry border.

A Florida man arrested for meth possession was allegedly found with a small bag of methamphetamine lodged in his "belly button cavity" when police searched him Saturday.

A mysterious "Jamaican businessman" has been blamed by a British couple who are accused of smuggling cocaine, according to U.K. reports.

Former cartel members testified that narcotics were hidden in shipping containers, passenger cars with hidden compartments, trucks, tanker trains and even cans of jalapeños.

Cabin crew were used as drug couriers, police said.

More than a dozen arrests were made before the "Holy Ship!" party cruise embarked from Port Canaveral.

The DEA confiscated a shipment of canned jalapenos in Tijuana, Mexico, from a counterfeit company called La Comadre, according to a witness.

A Justice Department lawyer in San Diego warned border authorities that an increased number of immigration cases "will occupy substantially more of our resources."

She was reportedly catfished by someone in Shanghai and asked to take the backpack to Melbourne as a favor.

In a police raid in Medellin in 2005, police found six pounds of heroin surgically implanted into six puppies.

"This highlights the negative influence of social media on young women," Judge Kate Traill said.

She previously claimed that she didn't know how the 200 pounds of cocaine had appeared in her possession.

FedEx records show that between March 2016 through July 2017, about 47 packages were mailed by the same San Francisco sender, according to the criminal complaint. 

The indictment was unveiled a week after a congressional subcommittee reported on vulnerabilities in airport security.

The tunnel started under a Tijuana house and was equipped with a rail system.

A sniffer dog alerted authorities to the squirreled-away shipment.

Marks announced in 2015 that he had been diagnosed with inoperable bowel cancer.

Kevin Winters, McCollum's solicitor, said she was released effectively on parole.

The two men were arrested late Thursday in Colombia, said the office of New York's special narcotics prosecutor.

The hidden weed is worth an estimated $499,000, according to authorities.

The pair, nephews of the president's wife, had contacted an undercover U.S. agent about selling 800 kg of cocaine.

Authorities seized two tonnes of amphetamine pills at Beirut airport last week.

Scott Stammers was caught along with four other men following an extensive DEA investigation.