Pennsylvania’s Attorney General announced Monday the break-up of a US$4.8 million narco-trafficking operation which shipped cocaine and heroin from Colombia to the U.S. Two men who allegedly worked as drug…
Police revealed Friday that at least six different criminal organizations with a combined total of 3,700 members, some of them former paramilitaries, are currently operating in Colombia. Police General Jose…
Colombian anti-narcotics police detained 25 people Thursday at a coca processing center “controlled by the FARC” who were apparently forced to work there by the guerrillas. The cocaine-producing laboratory operated…
Colombian drug traffickers have been caught hiding cocaine inside chocolate Santa Claus. Staff at London’s Gatwick airport found the drug in liquid form inside the Christmas-themed chocolates, reports UK newpaper…
Disgraced DMG boss David Murcia was transferred Wednesday to a New York jail to face charges of money laundering for drug traffickers. Murcia, the “brain” of financial company DMG, who…
President Uribe announced that he is meeting U.S. congressmen on Saturday, to request the urgent adoption of the pending free trade agreement. “I have a meeting on Saturday with a…
1,628 homicides were registered in the Colombian capital Bogota in 2009, signalling a steady increase for the second consecutive year according to forensic statistics. Figures provided by agency Medicina Legal…
The U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency has been impersonating FARC guerrillas to track down and capture illegal drug traffickers across the world. The DEA has used the guerrillas name as bait…
Colombian police have arrested so far 1,937 suspected members of new paramilitary groups that have emerged in recent years and are linked to drug trafficking. About 668 of those arrested…