Costa Rica reports record pot bust
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Costa Rican agents made the largest marijuana bust in the Central American nation's history, seizing 4.85 tons of the drug found in an abandoned boat, police said Saturday.
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It might have been one of the easiest drug busts in the history of the South Carolina Highway Patrol: A car with 43 pounds of marijuana crashed into a trooper's cruiser, authorities said.
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Mexican officials said Monday they have captured a man allegedly involved in shipping nearly half of the illegal drugs moved across the U.S.-Mexico border, the latest in a series of high-profile arrests.
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Leon Nunn stepped out his front door one recent afternoon only to be waved back by a squadron of drug agents using a battering ram on a neighbor's home. The half-million-dollar home in the quiet subdivision was found to be stuffed with high-grade marijuana plants, growing in soil-free trays under bright lights.
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Federal agents arrested more than 130 alleged drug traffickers from coast-to-coast Tuesday who U.S. officials said smuggled heroin from Mexico and offered phone-up home delivery like a takeout pizza shop.
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Mexico has extradited a record 64 drug kingpins and people smugglers to the United States so far this year, a U.S. diplomat said on Tuesday, part of Mexican President Felipe Calderon's war on drug cartels.
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By Erin Smith, The Pueblo Chieftain, Colo.  Feb. 24--CENTER -- Two Center men were arrested Thursday in conjunction with a drug sting here last summer and more arrests are expected.
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At least 14 people are arrested in Brazil as part of a series of anti-drug raids across six states.
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Over 120 people were arrested in an 18-month international investigation of illicit steroid labs, the Drug Enforcement Administration announced Monday
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AUBURN, Maine - Drug agents are investigating how a 20-pound bale of marijuana got mixed in with a truckload of watermelons that were delivered to the Good Shepherd Food-Bank.  A volunteer came across the marijuana while picking through the watermelons Thursday afternoon.
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The US cites record coca-crop destruction, and major arrests in Colombia. But cocaine flows north unabated.
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A San Jose court on Saturday placed former Costa Rica President and OAS Secretary General Miguel Angel Rodriguez under six months&#39; house arrest while awaiting trial on corruption charges.
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Afghanistan's heroin-producing poppy crop set another record this season, despite intensified eradication efforts, the American ambassador said Tuesday.
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CALLAWAY, Fla. - Help, police, someone stole my pot! A Panhandle couple is under arrest after notifying police Thursday that their quarter-pound stash of marijuana was stolen and that they needed the weed back, because they were going to later sell it.
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The Colombian anti-narcotics police say that a record number of drug crops were sprayed during 2004.
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Dozens of people accused of working for a Mexican drug cartel were arrested Wednesday in a multistate bust that has netted more than $45 million in cash and tons of cocaine, heroin and marijuana, federal officials said.
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Police found a cocaine laboratory in the southern Bolivian jungle capable of producing 245 pounds of the drug daily, one of the largest drug labs ever discovered in the Andean country.