Archive for 'Drug-Related Crimes'

5 tons of cocaine are confiscated in Portugal

9 January 2008

The police of Portugal has confiscated 5 tons of cocaine and has arrested six suspected people during the operation conducted together with law enforcement bodies of the neighbor Spain.
Police representative has informed, the illegal cargo was found on a vessel in the port of Lisbon.
The cargo has arrived from Venezuela and was intended for […]

Death penalty in China will be more humane

7 January 2008

The Chinese officials declare planned transition to more humane way of a death penalty: in the long term shootings will be completely replaced with a lethal injection.
It has declared by the vice-president of the Supreme National Court of China Tsian Sinchang.
As he said, this step has been positively taken by condemned and members of […]

The Mexican drug mafia shoots off musicians: 13 victims for 1,5 years

21 December 2007

In Mexican criminal wars between drug mafia gangs perish rockabilly musicians. 13 victims for 1,5 years, and three of them have died for the last two weeks.
All of the murders remain disclosed. The society can only guess about motives of this tragic and frightening tendency, writes The New York Times.
Abduction of the soloist […]

The historical cargo of cocaine is caught in Mexico

6 November 2007

At the Pacific coast of Mexico in port of Manzanillo, local police together with military seamen and customs officers has confiscated more than 23 tons of cocaine. It is the largest consignment of confiscated drugs for all history of the country.
Drugs have been found out in a transport container’s double bottom of a merchant ship […]

Marihuana is no more a kid stuff

6 August 2007

The British authorities have made the decision to move out marihuana from soft drugs group (С) and define it as a more strong narcotic (В), declared Prime-Minister of the country, Gordon Brown.
Along with this procedure British legislature will toughen punishment for storage of preparations which contain this substance. The question about the sanctions against smokers […]

The largest consignment of cocaine at the cost of 70 million euro is confiscated in Ireland

4 July 2007

The largest consignment of cocaine in the history of the country is confiscated in Ireland.
Seizure became possible due to an accident.
Near to the coast of Cork County crashed the boat with about a ton of cocaine.
Workers of life-saving service found out about 50 packages with drugs. Their cost exceeds 70 million euro, informs “the First […]