Cocaine

A woman is facing drug smuggling charges after U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers seized around 28 pounds of cocaine inside her wheelchair’s tires last week at John F. Kennedy International Airport. According to CBP, Emelinda Paulino De Rivas, a citizen of the Dominican Republic, arrived on a flight from Punta Cana on Thursday and was traveling in a...

Cocaine production in Colombia remained near record levels in 2021, according to estimates released by the White House, raising the stakes for bilateral cooperation between the United States and Colombia’s next administration.

Officials from the U.S., Colombia and Jamaica shared how infiltration by undercover officers, cooperating witnesses and confidential sources revealed the complicated plot to exchange dollars for Colombian pesos and clean the money through U.S. banks.

A Lowell postal worker is accused of trying to bribe and sell cocaine to a postal supervisor as part of a cocaine distribution scheme. According to the U.S. Attorney’s Office, John Noviello of Nashua, New Hampshire, was working as a mail carrier for the U.S. Postal Service in February when he approached a supervisor looking for help to divert...

The agency said the drugs — 11,300 pounds of cocaine and 4,076 pounds of marijuana seized in eight interdictions — are worth about $233 million on the black market.

A man has pleaded guilty to his role in a conspiracy to transport drugs and cash using secret compartments inside tractor trailers. Jamil Roman, 44, of Chicopee, Massachusetts, was indicted in 2016. He pleaded guilty on Tuesday in federal court in Springfield to conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute cocaine. He is scheduled to be sentenced in…

Four men face charges in Rhode Island after authorities say they kidnapped a postal worker who they mistakenly believed had stolen a shipment of their cocaine. The Boston Globe reports the men were engaged in a scheme to ship drugs from Puerto Rico to Rhode Island and became convinced the mail man had stolen one of their packages. They held…

Aerial video from Port Everglades, Fla., shows Coast Guard crews offloading more than $1.4 billion in seized cocaine and marijuana.

Two people were arrested in Gardiner, Maine, after DEA agents and police found $200,000 worth of cocaine in their car, including two pounds disguised as a cake.

The cocaine was wrapped in plastic with coffee grounds sprinkled on top, a tactic used by drug traffickers to hide the scent of the drug from K-9 dogs.

More than 30 kilograms of cocaine with a value topping $1 million were seized after washing ashore last month at the Cape Canaveral Space Station in Florida, according to the U.S. Space Force.

Drugs worth roughly $220 million that were seized in international waters this year will be offloaded Wednesday in San Diego.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection says it caught a Georgia woman trying to smuggle cocaine in multiple pairs of shoes through the Atlanta airport.

Customs authorities in Ohio say they intercepted a shipment of cereal earlier this month with a special frosting — cocaine.

The United States Coast Guard pulled into Port Everglades in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, with $400 million worth of cocaine and marijuana. The drugs were confiscated in the Caribbean Sea and Eastern Pacific Ocean.

Police in Milan’s airport stopped a suspicious shipment of coffee beans from Colombia. Upon further investigation, they found 500 beans filled with cocaine.

Mexican soldiers seized a huge drug stash at a house in the border city of Tijuana, including about two tons of methamphetamine, eight tons of marijuana and 131,500 pills containing the synthetic opioid fentanyl.

A man at Bridgewater State Hospital has been charged with manslaughter after he allegedly supplied a fellow patient with fentanyl and cocaine that led to the patient’s death. Brockton resident Kevin Malette, 35, was also indicted on several drug charges by Plymouth County Grand Jury late Friday. The victim, Jeffrey Link of Fall River, suffered an apparent overdose early on…

The crew of the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Bertholf unloaded 18,000 pounds of cocaine in the Barrio Logan neighborhood of San Diego Wednesday morning.

Court documents say federal agents seized almost 370 pounds of cocaine hidden in a truck that was preparing to enter Canada at Vermont’s Derby Line border crossing. The documents say the cocaine was found Dec. 7 in a hidden compartment of a truck. The driver of the truck, Jason Nelson, was charged in federal court in Plattsburgh, New York. Nelson…