Stolen papers linked to drug saga
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Documents stolen from the Equestrian Federation of Ireland were linked to the ongoing doping scandal surrounding an Olympic gold medal winning horse.
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BELFAST - Police have confirmed that more than Â£22 million ($60 million) was stolen from the National Australia Bank-owned Northern Bank in Belfast and that they are investigating the possibility the theft was carried out by paramilitaries.
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Mexican federal police captured suspected drug trafficker Gilberto Higuera Guerrero, a fugitive in Mexico and the US, which had a $2 million State Department reward out for information leading to his arrest.
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ISN SECURITY WATCH (18/10/04) - Coroners found traces of drugs in the systems of all the terrorists that seized a school in the North Ossetian city of Beslan last month, a senior Russian prosecutor said.
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More than 1 million pages of historical government documents &#151; a stack taller than the U.S. Capitol &#151; have been removed from public view since the September 2001 terror attacks, according to records obtained by The Associated Press. Some of the papers are more than a century old.
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The Mexican government said Sunday it received a letter from a drug suspect alleging that millions of dollars seized at his house in March &#151; the largest drug-related cash seizure in history &#151; were in fact illegal ruling-party campaign funds.
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Two people appear at a special court charged in connection with a major drugs find in County Antrim.
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Paramilitary thugs hauled Rafael Barbosa from his mother's home on a Good Friday, accusing him of making off with bags of cocaine found floating in the Caribbean. Toughs from the same gang "disappeared" his brother Freddy soon after, because he had taken up with one of the gunmen's sisters.
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GlaxoSmithKline Plc  and  AstraZeneca Plc  said on Sunday Britain's Serious Fraud  Office has asked them to hand over confidential documents,  following allegations bribes were paid to win contracts in  Iraq.
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Paraguayan anti-drug agents seized their biggest cocaine haul in 15 years after searching a small airplane near the border with Brazil, a state prosecutor told Reuters on Thursday.
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A suitcase thought to be full of long-lost Beatles material turns out to be full of photocopies
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A smuggler who is believed to have imported drugs with a street value of up to Â£350m, much of it hidden in garden furniture, was today jailed for 26 years.
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Heroin and cocaine addicts on a government scheme who stay "clean" are given drugs as a reward, the BBC learns.
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HALIFAX (CP) - The illegal trade in stolen and smuggled tobacco, once the work of lone, street-corner thugs, is a source of growing concern for police across the country now that organized crime is involved, a senior RCMP officer says.
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CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa - A man who police say was caught with two pounds of marijuana allegedly told officers the drugs weren't his because he stole it. Bradley Robison, 18, of Cedar Rapids, was charged with possession of marijuana with intent to deliver and failure to affix a drug tax stamp.
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Two men will appear in court later charged in connection with the seizure of nearly Â£1m worth of drugs and cash.
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Seven helicopter gunships skirted the steep mountainsides, then quickly descended on a cocaine lab, marked by a smoke grenade thrown by one of the raiders. As the heavily armed anti-narcotics police jumped from the hovering craft, accompanied by an informant wearing a ski mask, peasants who worked the coca fields and in the complex scampered away.