British travellers have been warned not to get involved with drugs abroad, as figures show a large number of those detained are accused of drugs offences.
Foreign Office figures for 30 September 2009 showed 1,057 of 2,582 Britons then jailed abroad were on drugs charges.
The majority were held in Spain, with 207, followed by the US, [...]
The Guardia Civil in Santa Pola has intercepted a cache of some 600 kilos of hashish. The small craft carrying the drug was making its way toward El Pinet Beach during the early hours of Sunday morning. It was intercepted as the contents were offloaded into a waiting van..
It all took place at round 1.00 [...]
A study done by the Institute of Legal Medicine of Seville revealed that “more than the 3% of sudden deaths in Spain are associated with the consumption of cocaine.”
And it demonstrates that “the use of the drug has become a problem in Spain and in the rest of Europe.”
The researchers warned about the lethal risk [...]
Federal officials are trying to get authorities in Spain to let them visit a former Nova Scotia fisherman who was arrested during a cocaine bust last month.
Philip Halliday was one of seven crewmen aboard the ship Destiny Empress when it was raided by police off the coast of Spain on Dec. 20. Investigators said they [...]
Drug smugglers appear to have made a major slip-up, after huge quantities of cocaine were delivered to supermarkets in Spain hidden in boxes of bananas.
Police were alerted after a shelf-stacker at a Lidl supermarket in Madrid found a brick of neatly wrapped cocaine under a bunch of the fruit on Saturday.
Searching other Lidl shops, police [...]
Spanish police have intercepted a two-tonne shipment of cocaine, smuggled into the country from Colombia.
The drugs, which Spanish media reports say were worth 70m euros (£62.8m), were hidden beneath a consignment of thousands of cut flowers.
They were discovered by police in an operation code-named “Flower Power” at Foronda airport, in the Basque Country.
Spain´s interior ministry [...]
Drug enforcement agents in Colombia´s Pacific port Buenaventura seized some 750 kg of cocaine in separate shipments bound for Belgium and Spain, officials said.
The cocaine was hidden in coffee and polypropylene shipments, the head of the National Polic´s drug enforcement unit, Gen. Francisco Patino, told reporters Sunday.
Drug enforcement agents have seized 123.5 tons of cocaine [...]
A ship carrying cocaine worth £375m – mostly thought to be destined for London – has been seized off the coast of Spain.
The former coastguard boat, named Destiny Empress, was captured some 200 miles off the northern coast as part of an operation involving Scotland Yard.
The ship contained 1.5 tonnes of cocaine which was hidden [...]
