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Boston man admits trying to buy 53 lbs. of cocaine from Mexican cartel
A man from Boston has admitted he tried to buy more than 50 lbs. of cocaine being delivered from a Mexican cartel, federal prosecutors said Friday. Eddy Javier Guerrero, 31, pleaded guilty to one count of attempt to possess with intent to distribute 500 grams or more of cocaine last week, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for Massachusetts. The…
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US Coast Guard says a Dominican died after it fired at a fleeing boat carrying $11M worth of cocaine
The U.S. Coast Guard says a person from the Dominican Republic died after it fired at a fleeing boat in the Caribbean Sea that was smuggling an estimated $11 million worth of cocaine.
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Spain seizes 11 tons of cocaine in shipping containers. Most of the drugs found among frozen tuna
Authorities confiscated 11 tons of cocaine that was mostly found among frozen tuna, Spain’s National Police said Tuesday.
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Cartels use banana exports to ship cocaine, fueling skyrocketing crime in Ecuador
Ecuador’s location is increasingly putting it at the confluence of two global trades: bananas and cocaine.
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Dutch customs officials make record cocaine seizure worth 600 million euros
Customs authorities in Rotterdam have confiscated more than 17,600 pounds of cocaine, the largest seizure of the drug in the Netherlands.
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Cocaine in shampoo? False positive lands Lynn man in Canadian jail for 5 days
A vacation in Brazil turned into a nightmare for an airline worker from Lynn, Massachusetts. On Brazilian soil, Yeremi Cuevas Tolentino had no problems. But when he made a connection in Toronto to travel back to Boston, Canadian authorities put him in custody, alleging he had cocaine inside a shampoo bottle. “I was terrified, I was afraid, I didn’t...
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Mass. airline worker arrested in Canada for allegations of cocaine in shampoo
A man was released from a Canadian jail after being falsely accused of cocaine possession while traveling internationally.
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Cocaine found in the White House was in a different location than previously reported, sources say
Multiple officials involved in the White House cocaine inquiry now say the bag of powder was found in a cubby near the White House’s West Executive entrance, not the formal West Wing lobby as was previously reported.
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Boaters find $1.5 million worth of cocaine and hashish off Florida coast
Around 150 pounds of drugs have been found by boaters in the Florida Keys in the past week, authorities said.
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2 Mass. Men Arrested After Cocaine Shipment From Puerto Rico Intercepted in Quincy
Two men were taken into custody this weekend in connection with a “large-scale Massachusetts drug trafficking enterprise” after authorities confiscated three kilograms of suspected cocaine that had been mailed from Puerto Rico to an apartment in Quincy. Massachusetts State Police said Stephen Marsden, 35, of Quincy, and Evans Klimavhich, 41, of Worcester, were arrested Friday following a “lengthy investigation” by…
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Lowell Mail Carrier Gets Home Detention, Supervised Release for Bribery, Cocaine Distribution
A postal worker in Lowell, Massachusetts, was sentenced Wednesday for trying to bribe a supervisor as part of a cocaine distribution scheme. John Noviello, 61, of Nashua, New Hampshire, received a one-day prison sentence with nine months of home detention and three years of supervised release, federal prosecutors said. The office of U.S. Attorney Rachael Rollins said Noviello pleaded guilty…
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$450,000 Worth of Cocaine Discovered in Woman's Wheelchair Tires at JFK Airport
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...