Authorities in the Central American nation seized 4.3 tons of cocaine which were originally produced by drug cartels in Colombia, Costa Rican authorities stated on Sunday.
After working with their counterparts in Panama and the United States, Colombian authorities seized 5.4 tonnes of cocaine worth $185 million, Colombia's Navy stated Wednesday.
After the interdiction of a go-fast vessel near Puerto Rico, the United States Coast Guard Cutter Joseph Tezanos offloaded close to $15 million worth of seized cocaine at Coast Guard Base San Juan on July 12 and transferred custody of two male smugglers.
After authorities found cocaine inside the body of a 4-month-old from South Carolina, the baby's parents were immediately arrested and charged after tests confirmed that the baby ingested cocaine on a feeding bottle.
The Guatemalan man, who is the second extradited defendant in the Colombia-to-America cocaine conspiracy, pleaded guilty in the United States District Court to charges related to the scheme.
Customs officials confiscated a total of 1,299 pounds of cocaine with an estimated value of $17.6 million inside a vessel that was intercepted near Puerto Rico.
After washing ashore last month at the Cape Canaveral Space Station in Florida a surveyor found that based on the United Space Force more than 30 kilograms of cocaine with value not less than $1 million were seized.
A truck driver from Canada revealed in Great Falls federal court Thursday about the drug trafficking crime he committed for hiding cocaine in boxes of bananas.
A sixth man charged with participating in a drug ring that smuggled cocaine from Puerto Rico to Pennsylvania pleaded guilty in federal court on Monday.
Federal law enforcement agencies have struggled to reduce the amount of marijuana smuggled into the country through the U.S.-Mexico border while the Rio Grande poses as its biggest challenge.
While illegal drug production and smuggling is what cartels are primarily known for, a recent "Associated Press" report reveals that numerous cartels in Mexico have found alternate ways of making money illegally.
