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[Link] A $200 Million Load of Fentanyl Was Just Seized in El Chapo’s Hometown
Read: 11/7/2022 www.vice.com
Authorities also found 555 kg of methamphetamine, 31 kg of cocaine, 7 kg of heroin, and over 71,000 kg of chemical precursors. Ten people were arrested in the bust, according to a Mexican army press release.
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[Link] Mexico Recaptures Elusive Gulf Cartel Boss For Third Time
Read: 1/3/2022 www.vice.com
MEXICO CITY — A top boss of the infamous Gulf Cartel was arrested this weekend in Mexico City for the third time. His detention is one of the highest-profile captures for President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s administration. Whether Cárdenas will remain in prison is yet to be seen.
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[Link] Grill’d co-founder Geoff Bainbridge quits Lark Distilling board over alleged drug use video
Read: 16/2/2022 www.theguardian.com
Melbourne entrepreneur Geoff Bainbridge, a co-founder of Grill’d, has resigned as chief executive of an ASX-listed whiskey distillery after the emergence of video, published in a media outlet, purportedly showing him intoxicated while smoking methamphetamine.
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[Link] Operation Ironside nets 18 more suspects as police seize guns and drugs
Read: 2/12/2021 www.abc.net.au
Another 18 men have been arrested in South Australia as part of ongoing Operation Ironside investigations, including two who have been charged with false imprisonment.
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[Link] Why So Much Fentanyl Is Being Seized at the Border
Read: 1/12/2021 www.vice.com
MEXICO CITY—Fentanyl seizures at the United States-Mexico border more than doubled in 2021 to surpass heroin for the first time ever. But experts say the COVID-19 border shutdown may explain the record numbers because it gave agents more time to inspect fewer vehicles. U.S.
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[Link] 'He has been significantly punished': Prison escape lands man in solitary confinement for a year, court hears
Read: 30/11/2021 www.abc.net.au
Jason Gregory Burdon has pleaded guilty to escaping from the maximum security prison's kitchen area in December last year, using items of clothing as a rope to climb out of a metal louvre window.
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[Link] The Pacific is in danger of becoming a semi-narco region
Read: 28/11/2021 www.theguardian.com
Four years ago I stood in front of a top level security conference and warned that we have just a few years to get on top of the problem of drugs being trafficked through the Pacific region or it could turn into a semi-narco region, controlled by criminal syndicates.
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[Link] Tonga’s drug crisis: Why a tiny Pacific island is struggling with a meth epidemic
Read: 28/11/2021 www.theguardian.com
After more than four decades spent living in New Zealand, Ned Cook knew it was time to return to his home country of Tonga. His country was in the grip of a methamphetamine epidemic that was ripping families apart and overrunning the country’s hospitals and jails.
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[Link] Alleged mini meth lab and firearms discovered in PNG hotel, but Australian manager won't face drug charges
Read: 25/11/2021 www.abc.net.au
Papua New Guinea police say outdated drug laws have left them unable to lay drug charges against the Australian manager of a Port Moresby hotel where an alleged clandestine meth lab and illegal firearms were discovered.
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[Link] Drug Kingpin El Mencho's Wife Was Just Arrested in Mexico
Read: 17/11/2021 www.vice.com
MEXICO CITY—Mexican authorities announced the arrest Tuesday of Rosalinda González Valencia, charged with laundering money for the hyper-violent Jalisco New Generation Cartel, which is led by her husband, Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, alias El Mencho.
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[Link] The US Just Put a $5 Million Bounty on El Chapo’s Brother
Read: 8/11/2021 www.vice.com
MEXICO CITY—The U.S. government is beefing up its search for high ranking members of the Sinaloa cartel, including the brother of incarcerated kingpin Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán Loera. The move comes as fentanyl overdoses in the U.S. continue to surge, and seizures in Mexico spike.
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[Link] Millions of Pills and Tons of Meth Make Up Asia’s Biggest Ever Drug Seizure
Read: 31/10/2021 www.vice.com
This is what Asia’s single biggest illegal drug bust looked like, after authorities in Laos intercepted a smuggler’s vehicle in the country’s northwestern Bokeo Province on Wednesday night.
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[Link] First person sentenced in SA after Operation Ironside arrests to spend two years behind bars
Read: 13/10/2021 www.abc.net.au
The first person in South Australia to be sentenced as part of Operation Ironside will spend at least two years in prison for transporting millions of dollars' worth of methamphetamine earlier this year.
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[Link] First China, Now India: How Drug Cartels Get Chemicals for Meth and Fentanyl
Read: 26/8/2021 www.vice.com
Restrictions in China have pushed drug traffickers to source the chemical “precursors” they need in India. Shopping for the chemical ingredients used to make fentanyl, methamphetamine, and other illicit synthetic drugs is still easy—if you know where to look.
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[Link] Afghanistan will be Asia's first narco-state
Read: 18/8/2021 thehill.com
The Taliban once again control Afghanistan, which means they also control the world’s premier source of opium.
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[Link] 'We forget our troubles': crystal meth use rises during lockdown in Zimbabwe
Read: 26/3/2021 www.theguardian.com
Inside a tiny room in Kuwadzana, a township in Harare, Solomon Sigauke* and his friends talk animatedly about football and listen to loud music. The misty vapour from the crystal meth fills the room as they take turns on a fluorescent pipe.