#drug-trafficking

#drug-trafficking

Colombia is very sick too, run by a sick man who likes making cocaine and selling it to the United States,

They have a big plant or a big facility where the ships come from. Two nights ago we knocked that out. The Republican was talking about the U.S. operation against drug trafficking in the Caribbean, focused on Venezuela. And if he said what he seemed to mean, he was confirming an attack the first strike on the ground after months of threatening to do so, escalating the offensive against Nicolas Maduro's government.

"County lines is where strangers, or gangs, or those involved in criminal activities try to use children for their own benefit," explains Leo Powell, a county lines educator. He was carrying out a role play with the children about grooming. "I've bought some food for him, he thinks we're friends, so now I say, "you owe me money', explains Mr Powell to the class. "That's called debt bondage."

Police arrested a 47-year-old woman on Tuesday after intercepting a package containing multiple illegal narcotics shipped from Peru to a Santa Rosa residence, authorities said. Detectives with the Santa Rosa Police Department's Narcotics Investigations Team received information from U.S. Customs and Border Protection about the package, which was disguised as everyday items such as tea and herbal powders, police said in a statement Tuesday.

After testing the contents, detectives determined the package contained about 7 ounces of ayahuasca powder, which contains the hallucinogen dimethyltryptamine, or DMT; more than 1 ounce of coca leaves, a source of cocaine; about 6.4 ounces of mescaline powder; and roughly 3.6 ounces of a green cocaine variant. All are illegal in the United States, police said. Investigators obtained a search warrant for the home the package was addressed to and an arrest warrant for the resident, Tahryn Janet Anderson.

Deepak Paradkar, 62, is accused of playing a role in Wedding's international drug-trafficking operation, including counseling Wedding to kill a witness. The alleged cocaine lawyer was arrested in November and is facing extradition to the U.S. where he could receive a life sentence if he is convicted of charges including conspiracy to commit murder and conspiracy to retaliate against a witness.

John Carey is already serving time after he was arrested with €1.2m of cocaine at Dublin Port in 2022

Julio Cesar Nevarez-Erunez, 24, was sentenced to nearly six years in prison on Dec. 4 after pleading guilty to a methamphetamine distribution conspiracy charge. His co-conspirator, Juan Niebla-Osuna, 28, struck a plea agreement with U.S. attorneys for the same charge and was out on bond, but was reported missing in late August, according to a pretrial services violation petition.