Type of arrest Number of arrests United States

Estimated totals of top seven arrest offenses in the United States, 2005 Total arrests* 14,094,200 Drug abuse violations 1,846,400 D...

Nick Baker, 32, was sentenced by Chiba District Court

Nick Baker, 32, was sentenced by Chiba District Court, near Tokyo, on Thursday for violating the narcotic control act and customs act. He wa...

Juan Carlos Ramírez-Abadía

Juan Carlos Ramírez-Abadía - a 44-year-old Colombian accused by US authorities of ordering hundreds of executions and smuggling billions of ...

Katriya Connor, a 23-year-old chef from Liverpool,

Katriya Connor, a 23-year-old chef from Liverpool, died after packages of cocaine exploded in her stomach during a flight from Cancún, in Me...

The men, from Dewsbury in West Yorkshire, and Bolton, Lancashire

arrested three British men who they alleged were planning to set up a cocaine trafficking network between South America and the UK. The men,...

British citizen named by police as Allan Grinham

British citizen named by police as Allan Grinham was arrested trying to board an Iberia flight to Europe with more than 6kg of cocaine.

Davena Payne, a 19-year-old student from central London

Davena Payne, a 19-year-old student from central London, was arrested as she attempted to board a plane at Rio de Janeiro's internationa...