US announces major drug arrests
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An operation against Mexico traffickers leads to 400 arrests and seizes 18 tonnes of drugs, the US says.
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U.S. agents smashed a Mexican drug trafficking network by arresting more than 400 people and seizing over 18 tonnes of narcotics, authorities said on Wednesday.
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Lil Wayne was arrested on three felony drug charges Wednesday after federal agents said they found illegal drugs, including cocaine, on his charter bus at a checkpoint in southwestern Arizona.
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The US Drug Enforcement Administration has joined a team in Afghanistan attempting to control heroin production, the Justice Department said Wednesday.
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Federal drug officials say they've arrested 124 people and busted 56 labs in the largest illegal steroid investigation in U.S. history.
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The United States  is concerned about increased production of the drug ecstasy by  Canadian organized crime groups, according to a State  Department report released on Thursday.
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US rapper Snoop Dogg was arrested in Stockholm in the early hours of Monday suspected of drug use, police said.
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A man and woman arrested in connection with an international illegal drugs inquiry face extradition proceedings.
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A quadrupling of incoming suspected drug flights in the past two years has forced Haiti and the Dominican Republic to face up to the fact that the island they share is a major transshipment point for cocaine bound to U.S. and European consumers.
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The US is set to take control of a local agency amid charges that millions in public money were wasted or stolen.
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Federal agents arrested more than 130 alleged drug traffickers from coast-to-coast Tuesday, saying they smuggled heroin from Mexico and even offered phone-up home deliveries like a pizza shop.
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KABUL, Afghanistan, Sept. 2 -- Opium cultivation in Afghanistan rose a "staggering"  59 percent this year, the U.N. anti-drug chief announced Saturday in urging the government to crack down on big traffickers and remove corrupt officials and police.
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The war on drugs is interfering with the US effort to destroy Al Qaeda and the Taliban in Afghanistan. US officials increasingly want to eradicate drugs as well as nurture Afghanistan&#39;s
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In what is being called the largest global crackdown ever conducted, the US Department of Justice&#39;s &quot;Operation Web Snare&quot; has led to over 100 arrests.
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US and Italian authorities lauched a massive operation against the New York and Sicilian Mafia Thursday, arresting 74 suspects in a sweep described as a major blow against organized crime.
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TEL AVIV -- Police arrested a reputed Israeli underworld figure yesterday on an international warrant for allegedly smuggling drugs from the European Union to the United States, authorities said.
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Gilberto Higuera Guerrero, said to be behind half the cocaine smuggled into the US from Mexico, is arrested.