Drug Bust

NBC 6’s Nicole Lauren is in Port Everglades where the Coast Guard seized over 60,000 pounds of cocaine and marihuana in three months.

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.

An increasing number of American citizens have been apprehended as they have tried to smuggle illegal drugs into the U.S. since the start of the coronavirus pandemic.

Drugs worth roughly $220 million that were seized in international waters this year will be offloaded Wednesday in San Diego.

Police announced the raid of a Northampton home that had an estimated $968,200 in methamphetamine

Authorities seized more than 100 pounds of cocaine branded with “CR7” – the nickname for international soccer superstar Cristiano Ronaldo – from a luxury residential complex in Queens, federal prosecutors announced Thursday.

NBC 6 cameras recorded law enforcement arresting four people authorities say are connected to a South Florida meth ring with ties to the Mexican cartel.

Law enforcement seized crystal meth from a stash house in Miami Beach. NBC 6’s Jamie Guirola reports

Federal authorities seized nearly 300 bricks of cocaine during a routine X-ray baggage inspection after a U.S. Virgin Islands charter flight landed at an executive airport in South Florida on Tuesday night. Six people, including two police officers, were arrested after agents found 328 kilograms of cocaine in 294 plastic-wrapped bricks of cocaine at Miami-Opa Locka Executive Airport on Tuesday…

Federal prosecutors say more than $1.5 million in drug sales were made from 2017 to 2020 by the defendants on the campuses of Duke, UNC Chapel Hill and Appalachian State University.

Officials say a Cleveland detective who had just joined a federal violence task force was shot and killed in his unmarked car along with an informant during what officials describe as a drug operation

Police in Milan’s airport stopped a suspicious shipment of coffee beans from Colombia. Upon further investigation, they found 500 beans filled with cocaine.

Four people were arrested after drugs, a gun and thousands of dollars in cash were seized from apartments not far from a high school in Fort Lauderdale. Multiple agencies and response teams made the discovery Wednesday in two apartments on the 2700 block of NW 13th Street, just 400 feet away from Dillard High School, according to the Broward Sheriff’s…

The Miami-Dade Police Department recorded a suspected drug deal with an unmanned aerial drone – the first time the police agency has used a drone to capture an alleged criminal act. Birds-eye images taken with the drone followed a man walking into a house in NW Miami-Dade. Police say another angle then captured Andre “Dread” Scott allegedly selling cocaine to...

The Miami-Dade Police Department recorded a suspected drug deal with an unmanned aerial drone – the first time the police agency has used a drone to capture an alleged criminal act.

Nearly 40 pounds of marijuana bound for Miami never made it to the Sunshine State after authorities intercepted 42 wrapped packages of the drug in Canada. U.S. Customs and Border Protection found the marijuana in the checked baggage of a couple headed to Miami International Airport, according to a statement. The marijuana was intercepted at the Toronto Preclearance Facility on…

A four month investigation into heroin and fentanyl street sales has placed nine people behind bars, police say. According to Miami-Dade Police, Operation “Bad Batch” resulted in 85 grams of drugs, including, cocaine, heroin ad methamphetamine, being seized by authorities. In total, $358 worth of drugs were purchased by undercover investigators, police say. Some purchases were even made near schools….

U.S. Customs and Border Protection responded to a large drug bust on the Miami River Wednesday.

Authorities in north Florida say more than 50 people, including 10 former corrections officers, participated in a painkiller distribution ring that involved sneaking the drugs into Florida State Prison.