Cocaine

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.

Coast Guard Cutter Tahoma’s crew offloaded more than 7,500 pounds of cocaine in Port Everglades, Monday with an estimated street value of $143.5 million, according to a U.S. Coast Guard news release. The discovery comes after three interdictions in the Eastern Pacific Ocean. On April 16th, a maritime patrol flight spotted a vessel and a Coast Guard law enforcement detachment team apprehended five...

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.

A prison guard in Miami-Dade County was arrested for allegedly attempting to bring cocaine into the facility he worked at. The Miami Dade State Attorney’s Office said 26-year-old Travis Thompson was charged with one felony count of cocaine trafficking. Thompson has worked for the Florida Department of Corrections since 2015. An investigation led Thompson, a sergeant at the Dade Correctional…

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.

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.

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....

A U.S. Coast Guard crew offloaded 9,300 pounds of seized cocaine in Key West that was found after stopping go-fast boats.

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

A routine traffic stop took a turn when a passenger of the car had white traces on his nose.

The U.S. Treasury Department is imposing sanctions against the leader of a major Colombian cocaine trafficking organization and several emerald companies.

The Drug Enforcement Agency in Miami is warning Floridians about deadly contaminated cocaine that has become widespread throughout the state.

According to the arrest report, both men met with a Hialeah Police undercover detective on last Thursday, where they agreed to by four kilograms of cocaine for $25,000 each.