'During search operations officer detected and seized 15 kg 785 gr. of marijuana in a house of earlier convicted 26-year resident of Ak-Suu district of Issyk-Kul region. Drugs were also found in the house of 20-year-old resident of Uch-Kaynar village of Ak-Suu district.

..... In Osh region militia arrested 42-year-old resident of Uzgen district, suspected of illegal possession of narcotics. In the house of a suspect - a resident of Kolduk village - militia found and seized 73 kg., 45 gr., of marijuana

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Seven people arrested in an alleged cocaine trafficking operation in Montgomery County dubbed “Operation Kingpin of Prussia” have direct links to “La Familia” Mexican drug cartel, according to the Montgomery County District Attorney Risa Vetri Ferman.

Last summer, Ferman said, detectives from the DA’s Narcotics Enforcement Team (NET) and Drug Task Force began receiving information about high-level drug trafficking activities involving Upper Merion resident, Charbel Pita Rosales, 29, who was also known as “Michaocano.”

timesherald.com

The Istanbul Police narcotics unit seized 155 kilos of heroin from a truck on Monday in district of Beylikdüzü.

The narcotics unit was acting on a tip that a large shipment of drugs en route from Iran was being transported to Europe. The truck was stopped after police obtained warrants and the heroin was found hidden in different parts of the vehicle

hurriyetdailynews.com

Multiple intelligence sources and tips from local citizens led the joint patrol to a series of smuggling routes. During the operation, the security force stopped several vehicles, one of which contained 1,763 pounds of opium.

dvidshub.net

U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers stationed at the San Luis port of entry seized nearly $6 million worth of cocaine during the past few days.

On Friday, a 23-year-old woman accompanied by a passenger attempted to smuggle more than 55 pounds of cocaine in a Dodge pickup. The two were referred by a CBP officer to the secondary lot for further inspection due to discrepancies found on the vehicle they were traveling in.

yumasun.com

19 Personen wurden angezeigt, acht Kilo Kokain und 30 Kilo Haschisch sichergestellt

Der Wiener "Kokain-Opa" ist wieder im Gefängnis: Der 77-Jährige mit langjähriger krimineller Karriere ging der Polizei diesesmal als mutmaßlicher Kopf eines Wiener Suchtgiftringes ins Netz. Neben dem ehemaligen "Einbrecherkönig" wurden 19 Personen angezeigt. Die Polizei fand insgesamt acht Kilo Kokain und 30 Kilo Haschisch, so der Leiter der Außenstelle-Süd des Landeskriminalamts Wien, Oberstleutnant Gerhard Winkler, am Mittwoch.

orf.at
derstandard.at

"Criminalisation of drug possession does not help to decrease illicit drug consumption. Instead, it distracts the attention and energy of the police from the real originators of the problem: mass producers and major and minor drug dealers" – write the signatories of a letter of support for liberalizing drug policy in Poland.

Among them are former President of Poland Aleksander Kwasniewski and a world-famous sociologist, Zygmunt Bauman. Other signatories include writers, artists and respected public figures.

cannazine.co.uk

Farmers growing marijuana in remote Mexican mountains are adopting techniques pioneered in the United States to produce more potent pot and boost profits from the cash crop that is fueling a deadly drug war.

In the fertile mountain valleys of Sinaloa in northwestern Mexico, soldiers this year found 60 acres (24 hectares) of covered greenhouses equipped with sophisticated irrigation and fertilization systems growing seemingly endless rows of marijuana plants.

Reuters