The Mexican navy helped rescue shipwrecked sailors and retrieve bales of illicit drugs that had been dumped into the ocean.

Pacific drug bust: Authorities seized nearly a ton of cocaine from a go-fast vessel spotted off Mexico’s coast, with the crew allegedly discarding the cargo into the sea. Rescue at sea: In a separate ...

As the United States drags the drug war back in time, traffickers are leaping forward, creating new ways of disguising and ...

When bales of cocaine started washing up on north Donegal beaches last month, Irish drug enforcement officials were quite sure what was happening. The appearance of two 30kg bales, worth more than €4 ...

Authorities in Paraguay announced Tuesday the largest cocaine seizure in the country's history, after officials were surprised to find more than 4 tons of the drug stashed inside a shipment of sugar ...

Cocaine is a powerful central nervous system (CNS) stimulant prepared from the leaves of the South American coca plant, Erythroxylon coca. Its most common form is as a white crystalline powder known ...

The cocaine trade is one of the world’s biggest illicit economies. Since it was outlawed in the mid-twentieth century, this white hydrochloride salt has become the crown commodity of global organized ...

"Middle-class" cocaine users have been accused by police and politicians of fuelling crime. But who actually uses the drug? The problem, says the UK's most senior police officer, is a group of ...

You might not be surprised to learn that a film called Cocaine Bear features a bear and cocaine. Directed by Elizabeth Banks, the dark comedy thriller follows an American black bear who embarks on "a ...