The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) charged Wednesday three suspected members of a transnational drug trafficking ring linked to a 2022 seizure of 1.5 tonnes of cocaine worth just under CDN$200 million (US$149 million).

U.S. courts across the country sentenced 69 members of the Universal Aryan Brotherhood (UAB) prison gang to a total of 418 years behind bars and 216 years of supervised release for crimes including drug trafficking and money laundering.

Dozens died in a wave of violence that engulfed the Mexican city of Culiacán when police last week arrested the son of jailed Sinaloa Cartel chief “El Chapo” Guzmán just days ahead of the visit of U.S. President Joe Biden to the country.

Dutch authorities extradited to Australia a Chinese-born Canadian believed to be the head of Asia’s biggest drug ring that laundered its illicit billions through poorly regulated casinos in Southeast Asia.

Mexican cartels and criminal networks headquartered in the European Union (EU) have been collaborating to traffic methamphetamine and cocaine from Latin America to the EU, Europol and the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) revealed in ajoint report Wednesday.

A Brazilian tug boat transporting more than four tonnes of cocaine bound for European markets was intercepted off the coast of Sierra Leone by the French Navy on Nov. 30.

Law enforcement agencies across Europe, in cooperation with their colleagues in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), said Monday that they had dismantled a ‘super cartel’, which controlled around one third of the cocaine trade in Europe.

The elderly have long been a choice target of cyber criminals who often strip them of life savings and other cash reserves. In Australia criminals have taken it to a new level: offering their victims to get their money back by serving as drug mules.

Canada and the United States individually sanctioned on Friday two Haitian political elites, whom the two countries accuse of using their positions to protect and enable criminal organizations responsible for the destabilization of Haiti and its rule of law.

Portuguese policeraided 55 locations throughout Lisbon and Porto and arrested nine individuals allegedly linked to one of the biggest drug traffickers in the country whose network is believed to have shipped tonnes of cocaine from South America to ports and airports in Portugal.

A federal court in New York sent on Monday a drug kingpin and paramilitary leader whom Colombia extradited in 2018 to prison for 35 years, the U.S. Department of Justice announced in astatement.

Most parents would say that a gun is not an appropriate prize at the bottom of their child’s cereal box, something Dominican police agreed with when they seized 20 handguns found inside of frosted flakes containers as part of a larger operation that resulted in record drug and firearm seizures.

Venezuela on Saturday has freed seven jailed Americans in exchange for the release of two relatives of the Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro who were convicted of drug trafficking in New York, U.S. officials said.

A joint investigation by Canadian and U.S. law enforcement agencies resulted in the seizure of more than US$40 million in drugs and the arrest of over a dozen suspected drug traffickers, money launderers, and arms traffickers.

A major cross-border investigation coordinated by Interpol has resulted in the arrests of 1,333 suspects and seizure of chemicals and drugs worth US$717 million worldwide.

Authorities in Italy and Spain have crushed a sophisticated drug trafficking and money laundering network that is believed to be linked to the infamous Calabrian ‘Ndrangheta.

Ecuadorian officials accused two suspects on Tuesday for their alleged involvement in the killing of a prosecutor who was investigating cases of violence and drug trafficking in the country.

Spain seized nearly 100 tonnes of drugs last year in international waters around the Iberian peninsula, which has for some time been a key point on the smuggling routes from Latin America and North Africa to Europe, the country’s Interior Minister reported.

Colombian authoritiessaid they arrested ten alleged leaders of “Los Maracuchos” criminal group, who engaged in a series of deaths of rivals and personal vendettas in Bogotá city since early this year, leaving at least 23 bodies inside plastic bags lying on the streets.

Spanish police reported Monday the dismantling of two cocaine processing plants, in an operation that resulted in seven arrests and the seizure of more than 800 kilos of drugs before they could reach the streets.