Cocaine

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.

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.

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…

Major League Baseball will start testing for opioids and cocaine. But only players who do not cooperate with their treatment plans will be subject to discipline. Marijuana will be removed from the list of drugs of abuse and will be treated the same as alcohol as part of changes to the joint drug agreement between MLB and the players’ association....

Sheriff’s deputies seized a duffel bag filled with cocaine that washed up on a northeast Florida beach.

A man who pleaded guilty to selling crack cocaine at a Massachusetts veterans’ hospital has avoided additional prison time. Federal prosecutors say 59-year-old Michael Sexton was sentenced Friday to time already served — about two months — and two years of probation.

Federal prosecutors say seven people have been indicted for their alleged roles in a conspiracy to ship drugs from California to Rhode Island and Massachusetts. The U.S. attorney’s office in Rhode Island says more than 200 packages containing “significant quantities” of heroin and cocaine were shipped from the Los Angeles area to dozens of rented commercial mailboxes in greater Providence...

A Boston-based U.S. Coast Guard crew recently returned home after helping to seize more than 12,000 pounds of cocaine in the eastern Pacific Ocean. The Cutter Seneca returned to Boston Sept. 27 after a 93-day patrol with three other coast guard vessels.

Federal authorities say a weekslong investigation into drug trafficking in Massachusetts has led to about 50 arrests and the seizure of large amounts of fentanyl, heroin and cocaine. U.S. Attorney for Massachusetts Andrew Lelling said in a statement Monday the 10-week operation code named Devil’s Highway was a coordinated effort by federal, state, and local partners to focus on drug...

Authorities in Manchester, New Hampshire seized a battle ax and other weapons in addition to several types of illegal drugs in a major bust last week. Robert Audette, 29, and Quinn Pollock, 24, were arrested Friday during a raid at an apartment on the outskirts of the city, police said. The pair is accused of selling crystal meth and heroin...

A serious crash involving a pickup truck and a utility pole shut down a portion of Route 9 westbound Tuesday afternoon in Natick, Massachusetts.