Security forces from eight European countries arrested 12 suspected members of a Balkan drug cartel accused of bringing tonnes of cocaine from South America into Europe.

A cutting-edge facial recognition algorithm finds a “strong possibility” that an unidentified man found dead in a car in 2015 is a lieutenant in the operation of the accused “cocaine king” Darko Šarić.

A court in the United Kingdom found three men belonging to a known organized crime group from East London guilty of trying to conceal cannabis and cocaine in sweet potato boxes in two shipments from Jamaica, the U.K. National Crime Agency (NCA) said.

A Cuban man who turned his Texas farm near the border to Mexico into a drug and human trafficking hub was sentenced to more than 38 years in prison, the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) announced.

The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) arrested a 47-year old Canadian man Feb. 18 at the Woodstock-Houlton border crossing in New Brunswick, according to a recent RCMP press release.

The Sri Lankan Navy arrested on Wednesday one suspect and seized more than 400kg of cannabis concealed in a fishing trawler in the latest interception of vessels smuggling drugs from India to the island.

A U.K. court sent four members of a Ghanaian cocaine smuggling group to jail for 28 years for trying to import nearly US$4 million worth of cocaine concealed in their luggage on flights from Ghana to London.

On Monday, Nigerian Police Force arrested five of its colleagues, including the country’s most decorated policeman, over their alleged involvement in drug cartel activities and for facilitating the movement of drugs across Nigeria.

Working together, police in seven European countries dismantled the most active Albanian-speaking cocaine smuggling group on the continent, arresting 45 suspected members, Eurojust reported on Tuesday.

In two simultaneous drug busts, Colombian National Police seized more than 3.3 tonnes of cocaine presumed to have been heading to Europe and to the United States.

Croatian police reported Tuesday that they have confiscated a record amount of drugs — roughly 62 kilos of cocaine and 220 kilograms of heroin — in the country’s southern port of Ploče in two separate operations in October and November.

Spain received financial support from Europol on Tuesday in order to augment its investigative capabilities against lucrative transnational organized criminal enterprises such as drug smuggling, human trafficking, and illicit firearms.

The U. K. authorities charged a Polish truck driver with smuggling Class A drugs after they found 418 kilograms of cocaine in a cover load of frozen onion rings in his vehicle, the National Crime Agency (NCA) reported on Sunday.

The U.K. authorities sent on Friday a truck driver from Derventa, Bosnia and Herzegovina, behind bars for nine years for trying to smuggle 40 kilograms of cocaine into the country, the National Crime Agency reported.

Spanish authorities coordinated a Europe-wide operation that targeted several transnational organized crime groups and resulted in 330 arrests and dozens of new investigations into drug smuggling and illegal firearms trafficking.

Spain’s National Police and tax authorities have seized 680 kilograms of hashish from a pleasure boat along the Costa del Sol, officials reported on Monday.

Spanish police arrested 21 suspected members of a group that smuggled drugs and trafficked illegal migrants from Morocco and Algeria and used its intricate knowledge of an interconnected series of caves and grottoes along Spain’s southeast coast to hide them.

Once he becomes eligible for parole next month, Australia plans to deport convicted drug trafficker Francesco “Frank” Madafferi, who has been languishing in an Australian prison since 2014 for helping import from Naples, Italy, some 15 million ecstasy pills concealed in tomato tins.

Spanish law enforcement agencies said that in two separate operations they arrested 11 people and seized 12 tons of hashish that came in from Africa by boats.

Croatian police confiscated nearly 600 kilograms of cocaine concealed in a shipment of bananas that arrived from South America to the Adriatic port of Ploče. Officials say that with increased controls in ports in Western and Northern Europe, organized crime seems to be looking for alternative routs in the south of the continent.