Drug Bust

A woman is facing drug smuggling charges after U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers seized around 28 pounds of cocaine inside her wheelchair’s tires last week at John F. Kennedy International Airport. According to CBP, Emelinda Paulino De Rivas, a citizen of the Dominican Republic, arrived on a flight from Punta Cana on Thursday and was traveling in a...

The Mexican army says a tip led to the seizure of almost 1.5 tons of meth and 328 pounds (149 kilograms) of apparent fentanyl at a checkpoint in the northern border state of Sonora.

Brett Valley, 24, was arrested Wednesday on several charges including armed trafficking of oxycodone and the sale, manufacture or delivery of cannabis, Broward Sheriff’s Office officials said

Police found large amounts of cash and illegal drugs in a Pompano Beach hot dog shop. NBC 6’s Willard Shepard reports.

Law enforcement moved Wednesday to stifle what sources call a major drug operation that kept going despite its alleged ringleader being behind bars.

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...