10-26-17 14 tonnes of cocaine has been found in boxes of bananas seized in Holland and Belgium. All of it originates from Colombia, 11 tonnes coming from Turbo, a port town in Antioquia. http://www.freshplaza.com/article/183873/14-tonnes-of-cocaine-found-hidden-amongst-bananas-in-Holland-and-Belgium/
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9-24-18 Within the boxes, officials discovered 540 packages of cocaine hidden among bundles of bananas. Police list the value of the drugs at almost $18 million. The donation came from Port of America in Freeport, Texas, according to the department, though it's unclear who or when the cocaine entered the shipment. https://www.cnn.com/2018/09/23/us/cocaine-donated-bananas-tdcj-trnd/index.html
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POLICE in the south of Spain have recovered more than 6,000 kilos of cocaine in a massive drugs bust in Malaga on the Costa del Sol.
It is believed to be the second largest stash found in Europe, with a street value of €360million and was hidden in amongst a shipment of bananas. https://www.euroweeklynews.com/2018/10/24/bananas-e360-million-cocaine-stash-second-largest-in-europe-found-on-spains-costa-del-sol/#.W9Jx17Q-BbU
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9-22-17 BOGOTA (Reuters) - Colombian police have seized seven tonnes of cocaine at a banana farm in northern Antioquia province, the defense minister and police said on Friday. The shipment, worth about $200 million, belonged to the Golfo Clan crime gang. Five people were arrested in the operation. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-colombia-crime/colombian-police-seize-7-tons-of-cocaine-at-banana-farm-idUSKCN1BX31X
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12-5-17 6 tons cocaine shipment came from the Colombian city of Medellin and was headed for the Spanish port city of Barcelona.
Police have not revealed what raised their suspicion about the shipment but after unsuccessfully searching two containers, the third one they opened yielded the cocaine.
Spain's Guardia Civil paramilitary police said three people had been arrested: a Spaniard who is believed to be the ringleader of the drugs gang, a Honduran national and a Portuguese citizen. Two more people are also being investigated.
The find is the second largest cocaine seizure to be made in Spain. In 1999, 7.6 tonnes were found aboard a trawler manned by a crew of Russians and Belarussians. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-42236206
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Military authorities of Colombia states that it seized 5.2 tons of cocaine yesterday, hidden in a shipment of bananas destined for export to Belgium and belonging to the Gulf Clan, the country’s largest criminal gang. No arrests were made https://www.newsfirst.lk/2018/03/07/colombia-seizes-5-2-tons-cocaine-hidden-banana-shipment/
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5-16-16
Colombian national police seized some 8 tons of cocaine along the country's border with Panama over the weekend. Officials say the drugs were discovered in an underground chamber beneath a banana plantation.
Authorities in Colombia say they believe the drugs belong to a crime gang that U.S. officials are targeting — the Clan Usuga gang. https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/05/16/478226642/more-than-8-tons-of-cocaine-seized-in-massive-colombian-drug-bust
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8-29-13 Over four tons of cocaine found in Guayaquil, Ecuador. Authorities in Ecuador have made the second four ton cocaine seizure in two weeks in Guayaquil, highlighting the importance of the port city to international drug trafficking and raising questions over which criminal groups now control the country’s trafficking routes. https://www.insightcrime.org/news/brief/ecuador-makes-second-4-ton-cocaine-seizure-in-fortnight/
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7-6-15 Authorities arrested
Chavez lived in Ecuador but was captured in Colombia’s third-largest city, Cali. She reportedly traveled to Colombia to meet with drug trafficking associates who had been threatened by Mexico’s Sinaloa drug cartel. https://www.insightcrime.org/news/brief/colombia-captures-cocaine-fixer-la-faraona/
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3-8-16 Belgian authorities have found three tons of cocaine in a container of bananas from Colombia at the port of Antwerp, customs officials said on Tuesday….The seizure comes just months after police in Spain seized three tons of cocaine and arrested 12 suspected drug smugglers from Spain, Britain and the Netherlands. http://m.naharnet.com/stories/en/204082-belgium-seizes-3-tons-of-cocaine-in-colombian-banana-container
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12-11-15 On December 10, elements of Colombia’s investigative police (DIJIN) and Interpol arrested seven family members in the city of Cali for laundering over $454,000 in drug payments between the Sinaloa Cartel and Urabeños, reported Proceso.
According to Pablo Ruiz, head of the DIJIN’s special crimes unit, the seven belonged to a laundering network that also operated in Houston, Texas and Guadalajara, Mexico, reported El Espectador. From these cities the money would be transferred in smaller sums, using a technique known as “smurfing,” to exchange houses in the Colombian cities of Cali and Buenaventura. This method is intended to camouflage the flow of money so as to avoid raising suspicion. https://www.insightcrime.org/news/brief/sinaloa-cartel-urabenos-money-laundering-network-discovered-in-colombia/
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10-26-17 But these contraband activities served a dual purpose, as certain sales of illicit merchandise resportedly allowed the Sinaloa Cartel to pay its Colombian cocaine suppliers, says El Tiempo. The Mexican group allegedly used drug profits from the United States to buy Chinese merchandise that was imported — and partly smuggled — into Colombia. The profit from the contraband sales served to pay Colombian criminal groups for the cocaine they supply to their Mexican counterpart.
The contraband networks working this scheme allegedly bring over Chinese nationals to use as front men. Colombian authorities dismantled 34 money laundering networks that used Chinese contraband in recent years, and at least 40 Chinese nationals were identified during Colombian customs stings since 2016, according to El Tiempo. https://www.insightcrime.org/news/brief/sinaloa-cartel-drug-money-behind-colombia-contraband-sting/
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4-26-18 U.S. Coast Guard and the Royal Canadian Navy cutters intercepted a total of 12 tons of cocaine and one ton of marijuana off Latin American coastlines, which officials from both countries showed off to reporters in Fort Lauderdale Wednesday. https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/us-coast-guard-canadian-forces-seize-12-tons/story?id=54747878
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BOGOTA (Reuters) - Police seized more than 12 tons of cocaine from Colombia’s top crime gang on Wednesday, the biggest haul ever in the nation’s long-running fight against drug trafficking, President Juan Manuel Santos said The cocaine, with a U.S. market value estimated by Santos at about of $360 million, was found stored underground on four farms in a banana-growing region of northwest Antioquia province, near Colombia’s border with Panama.….
Colombia is one of the world’s leading producers of cocaine, with output of around 910 tons per year, according to the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration. Anti-drug police have confiscated 362 tons of cocaine this year. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-colombia-drugs/colombia-seizes-12-tons-of-cocaine-its-biggest-ever-haul-idUSKBN1D9005
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5-26-17 While Americans turned their attention to confront an opioid epidemic, Colombia has been producing more cocaine than at the height of the Miami drug wars in the 1980s, they say.
“There is a mountain of cocaine, much of it is likely headed our way,” said Justin Miller, intelligence chief for the DEA’s Miami field division. “But we are already seeing these drug combinations, and cocaine deaths are already going up significantly.”
Generally, 90 percent of the cocaine seized in the U.S. is traced back to Colombia, which already has tripled production over the past few years, Miller said....But unlike the days of Escobar, today’s cocaine producers are more decentralized, in large part due to government efforts to take down large-scale criminal organizations.
“Now you have these smaller cartels, they don’t want to run for Congress like Escobar or run TV stations like the Cali cartel, they want to remain low profile,” Mangan said....
Often drug users don’t know what they are taking. Heroin can be cut with drugs such as fentanyl, xanax and cocaine. The DEA has also analyzed samples of cocaine-fentanyl combinations in the last few years, according to a report. https://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/florida/fl-reg-cocaine-surge-fueling-overdoses-20170523-story.html
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8-6-18 Turkish security forces have seized around 10 tons of heroin so far this year, the Interior Ministry announced on Aug. 5.
A ministry statement said 117,267 people were detained in the same period for alleged drugtrafficking and 13,773 of them were remanded in custody.
In the same period of 2017, security forces had seized more than 7 tons of heroin, making this year’s total a rise of about 40 percent. http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/turkish-security-forces-seize-10-tons-of-heroin-this-year-135492
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12-28-15 Both the governments of Saudi Arabia and Iran announced Monday that hundreds of tons of illegal drugs had been smuggled into their respective countries, with record-breaking shipments of contraband making their way in.
Described by Arab News as “one of the largest drug hauls” in Saudi history, officials in Riyadh announced Monday they had seized more than five million amphetamine pills, arresting eleven individuals for attempting to smuggle the drugs into the country.
“The gang, comprising nine Saudis and two Sudanese, was about to hand over the contraband to their recipients in Riyadh,” said Saudi spokesman Maj Gen Mansour Al-Turki. https://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2015/12/28/saudi-arabia-iran-face-dueling-drug-epidemics/
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From left, James Archibald, Schonton Harris and Kelvin Harris. (Miami Police Department)
The footage tells a different story. LAPD officer Gaxiola, as CBS Los Angeles identified him, picks up Shields’s wallet from the street and shows it to another officer who then points to Shields. Gaxiola then puts the wallet back down, picks up a small bag of white powder from the street (which later tested positive for cocaine), picks up the wallet, and puts the bag in the wallet.
The audio turns on, signaling that the officer had manually activated his camera to record. Then the officer shows himself supposedly finding the wallet and the drugs inside of it, and repeatedly telling other officers about it. “Just to let you know, sir, inside his wallet, he has a little bag of narco,” Gaxiola said. https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/11/14/16649034/lapd-police-plant-evidence-ronald-shields
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-Deputy Kenneth Collins teaches ex-offenders at the Los Angeles Sheriff's Department's "Emerging Leaders" program in La Puente on Jan. 29, 2014. (Credit: Watchara Phomicinda/ San Gabriel Valley Tribune)
1-16-18 Kenneth Collins, a 15-year veteran of the department, and three other men were arrested by undercover FBI agents after they arrived in Pasadena to provide security for the transport of dozens of pounds of drugs — nearly 45 pounds of cocaine and more than 13 pounds of methamphetamine, the U.S. Department of Justice said in a news release. https://ktla.com/2018/01/16/l-a-county-sheriffs-deputy-charged-with-selling-drugs-offering-protection-of-other-officers-to-dealers/
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