5 years for drug dealing

50 year old from Scotland who is doing 5 years for drug dealing. He filled me in pretty well on how the arrest and conviction process works ...

Schapelle Corby

Schapelle Corby is languishing in a Balinese jail as are the Bali Nine, and now, a young woman of only 42 years of age is facing jail time i...

Bali Party Arrests

3 foreign men from Italy, Australia and Belgium were arrested at a Kerobokan villa during a raid on a party. Its quite possible that some of...

21 American citizens have died in custody in Mexico

21 American citizens have died in custody in Mexico and that "Mexican police regularly obtain information through torture."

Jomeh Gomshadzehi was hanged in the city of Zahedan

Jomeh Gomshadzehi was hanged in the city of Zahedan after being arrested with 3,300 kilos of opium, 84 kilos heroin, and 95 kilos of morphin...

death penalty for drug dealing

The Philippines congress has approved and President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo has signed a draconian new anti-drug measure, the Comprehensive ...

400 prisoners have been hanged in Singapore since 1991

400 prisoners have been hanged in Singapore since 1991, giving the small city-state possibly the highest execution rate in the world relativ...

Trinh Nguyen Thuy

Trinh Nguyen Thuy and 32 of his associates on charges of trafficking and producing heroin, according to papers there. According to the polic...

Nguyen Van Huy, aged 36, and his 39-year-old wife, Hoang Le Thuy

Nguyen Van Huy, aged 36, and his 39-year-old wife, Hoang Le Thuy, had 500 grams of heroin hidden away in bottles of medication in their bagg...

Barbara Higgs

Barbara Higgs is facing the local justice system over the seizure of 49.7 grams of marijuana at her residence in Lombok. The interesting par...

Iwuchukwu Amara Tochi

Iwuchukwu Amara Tochi was hanged just before dawn on 26 January 2007. He had been caught with 727 grams of heroin in the transit area of Cha...

65% of all drugs in the UK had come from Jamaica.

Jamaican drug mules are reportedly paid between £2,000 (J$130,400) and £5,000 (J$335,000) for each trip. The deputy head of the Jamaican nar...

one in 10 air passengers from Jamaica were smuggling drugs

Jamaica's narcotics police have reportedly said "umpteen drugs couriers are travelling from Jamaica to the UK".

David Case, 44, Sebastian Stephen, 41

David Case, 44, of Kingarth Street, Cardiff, and a second man, Sebastian Stephen, 41, of Adventurers Quay, Cardiff Bay – alleged to have bee...

Marianne Telfer

Marianne Telfer is one of a growing band of women who have found themselves in prisons around the world accused of acting as drug mules. Hun...

from Dewsbury in West Yorkshire, and Bolton, Lancashire

The men, from Dewsbury in West Yorkshire, and Bolton, Lancashire, were reportedly planning to stash the drug in loudspeakers before smugglin...

Katriya Connor, a 23-year-old chef

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...

Davena Payne, a 19-year-old student

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...

Nigerian women on drugs charges in UK jails has risen

The number of Nigerian women on drugs charges in UK jails has risen almost sixfold in three years, figures supplied to the BBC News website ...

“Dracuweed”

“Dracuweed” or super-hybrid marijuana is widely grown in the mountains of Michoacan, Mexico and is transported by every means imaginable, to...

Black tar Mexican heroin

Black tar Mexican heroin is mixed with an over-the-counter antihistamine found in products like Tylenol PM. Both the illegal and legal antih...

lost his 15-year-old son to cheese

Fernando Cortez is getting involved. He lost his 15-year-old son to cheese earlier this year. Cortez swears his son wasn’t a user and is hau...

Something called “cheese” is killing kids.

In August of 2006, no one had even heard of it — so much so, that when a school district police officer first saw a bag of this drug, he tho...

POLICE have quashed an 'urban myth'

POLICE have quashed an 'urban myth' that a new drug called Strawberry Quick is being given to school children in Lincolnshire. Linco...

It tastes like candy - often times like strawberry-flavored candy - but it's flavored methamphetamine

In their quest to lure new, younger clientele, drug dealers are mixing their wares with over-the-counter pain remedies and other familiar pr...

Leroy Carr made his first appearance in U.S. District Court

Leroy Carr made his first appearance in U.S. District Court in Seattle on Monday. He's charged with possession of cocaine with intent to...

SAA employees, including a pilot,

SAA employees, including a pilot, had been arrested in countries such as Brazil, Australia and the United Kingdom since 2000.

Lindiwe Harriet Luthuli, 40

stewardess Lindiwe Harriet Luthuli, 40, pleaded guilty to smuggling 5kg of cocaine and 10kg of herbal cannabis - valued at about £325 000 (m...

South African Airways is battling to control a growing drug-smuggling epidemic

South African Airways is battling to control a growing drug-smuggling epidemic among its own staff - with three stewards arrested on charges...

Anthony Cruz, 16

Anthony Cruz, 16, was stopped by customs officials as he arrived on an American Airlines flight from Santiago in the Dominican Republic. X-r...

Gordon Vuong was 16

Gordon Vuong was 16 in January last year when he was arrested at Phnom Penh airport with more than two kilograms of heroin strapped to his b...

caught with heroin strapped to his body at Phnom Penh airport

The Federal Government has confirmed that the Australian Federal Police did play a role in the arrest of an Australian teenager who's be...

latest drug mule captures

.Osvaldo Aldrete Davila, the drug smuggler who was shot in the buttocks by El Paso Border Patrol agents Ignacio Ramos and Jose Alonso Compea...

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...