Tag: Drug-related crime
Lebanon detains 2 suspected of drug smuggling to Saudi
BEIRUT — Lebanese authorities have arrested two brothers suspected of smuggling drugs in pomegranate shipments to Saudi Arabia, leading the kingdom to ban Lebanese...
Mexican border governor impeached for alleged tax evasion
MEXICO CITY — Mexico’s congress voted Friday to impeach the current governor of the border state of Tamaulipas on charges of tax evasion, money...
Georgia man on way to prison escapes at convenience store
ATLANTA — Authorities were searching Friday morning for an inmate who escaped from custody while being taken to a state prison and residents in...
Mexico mayoral candidate runs despite DEA alert, warrant
MEXICO CITY — A candidate for President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s Morena is running for mayor of a cartel-plagued city in southern Mexico —...
Police in North Macedonia bust ring selling drugs, weapons
SKOPJE, North Macedonia — Police in North Macedonia have broken up a major criminal ring of drug, weapons and ammunition traffickers and arrested nine...
Greece coast guard divers seize cocaine from cargo ship
ATHENS, Greece — Greek authorities say coast guard divers have seized more than 46 kilograms (101 pounds) of cocaine found hidden behind a water...
US tourist killed in Puerto Rico after no-photo warning
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — The burned body of a 24-year-old tourist from Delaware was identified on Tuesday, three days after he and a...
Lebanon urges Saudi Arabia to reconsider ban on produce
BEIRUT — Lebanon called on Saudi Arabia on Monday to reconsider its decision to ban Lebanese produce from entering the oil-rich kingdom over a...
Warrant: Drug buys recorded weeks before Black man shot dead
ELIZABETH CITY, N.C. — A search warrant being served when deputies shot and killed a Black man in North Carolina says that investigators used...
3 men indicted in drug case in Puerto Rico
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Three men were indicted Monday in a case that federal authorities say involves some $75 million worth of cocaine...
