A 73 year old man, J.M.P.T., has been sentenced to five years in prison for selling heroin from a boarding house in Santander, Cantabria. He’ll also have to pay a fine of 12,000 €.

typicallyspanish.com

Immigration agents discovered a 13-foot drug tunnel stretching from the Mexican border to a metered parking space in Arizona, where vehicles with holes cut in the bottom would park and take marijuana from people inside the underground space.

"It was pretty brazen," said U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokesman Vincent Picard. "Right in the middle of downtown Nogales."

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kvoa.com

The Drug Enforcement Commission (DEC) has arrested eight people in separate incidences in Lusaka for trafficking in different quantities of cocaine including young musicians.

lusakatimes.com

The Turkish security forces and police seized large amount of drugs in several operations in Turkey on Monday, semi-official Anatolia news agency reported.

The Turkish security forces confiscated 245 kg of heroin and seven kg of hashish in an operation conducted in northwestern province of Istanbul, the report said, adding 16 people were arrested suspected of in connection with the illicit drugs.

peopledaily.com.cn

Though the Sandinista-Escobar connection has been public knowledge in Nicaragua for years, this week’s leaked cables claim the Sandinistas’ connection to narco-financing continued well after the revolution ended in 1990. Ortega was eventually reelected president in 2006, after 16 years out of power. The leaked cables did cover the Sandinista government’s alleged corruption, blackmail of public figures and involvement with international drug traffickers to finance political campaigns.

americasnewsonline.com

In Burma ist die Rauschgiftproduktion im laufenden Jahr rasant gestiegen. Es wurden 76 Prozent mehr Opium hergestellt als ein Jahr zuvor, berichtete das UNO-Büro für Drogen und Kriminalität (UNODC) heute in Bangkok. Damit liefere die Militärdiktatur schon 16 Prozent des Weltmarktangebots der illegalen Droge. Vor einem Jahr waren es erst fünf Prozent.

orf.at

Poppy cultivation in Burma, Laos and Thailand has shot up for the fourth consecutive year, threatening to roll back steps taken to stem the drug trade in Southeast Asia's notorious Golden Triangle area.

Overall, cultivation in the region has almost doubled since 2006, according to latest U.N. assessment of the opium trade in Southeast Asia.

It warned that the increase had the potential to push up regional opium production in 2010 by a whopping 75 percent from last year, with military-ruled Burma expected to grab the lion's share.

rfa.org

Kriminelle könnten das Datenchaos ausnützen - "Jeder mit einer Rolle Klebeband kann irgendeine Nummer auf ein Flugzeug kleben"

Die Daten zu rund einem Drittel der in den USA registrierten Privat- und Verkehrsflugzeuge sind lückenhaft

derstandard.at