Posts Tagged Panama
Joint Operation Busts Million Dollar Drug Trafficking Ring in Dominican Republic
Posted by drug@dmin in Drug Busts on December 22, 2012
21st December 2012 An international drug-trafficking organization accused of laundering at least $70 million this year was busted in a joint operation by Dominican police and other law enforcement agencies. Twenty-six suspects were initially captured in this Caribbean country earlier this month, the majority of them from Colombia and Venezuela. Nine were released, but a [...]
U.S. Coast Guard seizes 4 tons of cocaine
Posted by drug@dmin in Drug Busts on September 15, 2012
Sep 14, 2012 SAN DIEGO - A major drug bust Friday involving four tons of cocaine, and the arrest of nearly two dozen alleged smugglers. The U.S. Coast Guard will detail what it calls a major “counter-drug patrol operation,” in a press conference Friday. News 8 was able to get a first look at some pictures [...]
Five Arrested, More Than A Ton Of Drugs Seized
Posted by drug@dmin in Drug Busts on August 2, 2011
1st August 2011 Panama’s National Police seized more than a ton of drugs and arrested five people related to the cache during two raids last weekend in the provinces of Panama and Colon. During a press conference anti-drug authorities explained in one of these police actions they seized 639 kilos of heroin in the community [...]
Panama Seizes 3 Tons Liquid Cocaine
Posted by drug@dmin in Drug Busts on July 9, 2011
8th July 2011 Panama’s navy seized over three tons of liquid cocaine after intercepting a ship off the Atlantic coast. Authorities arrested one Colombian and one Spanish national. The ship, bearing a U.S. flag, had set off from Cartagena, on Colombia’s Caribbean coast, and was bound for Honduras, reported EFE. It was intercepted in the [...]
Colombia coca production declined, U.N. study says
Posted by drug@dmin in Drug Related on June 25, 2011
24th June 2011 Acreage dedicated by Colombian farmers to growing coca, the illicit raw material of cocaine, fell 15% in 2010, the third straight annual drop, according to a U.N. study released Thursday. The United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime estimated the nation’s coca crop at 155,000 acres, down from 182,500 acres in 2009. [...]
SENAN Finds 452 Kilos of Marijuana On The Beach in the Darien
Posted by drug@dmin in Drug Busts on June 17, 2011
14th June 2011 The National Air Service (Senan) of Panama reported on Monday they had seized 452 kilos of marijuana that was abandoned by alleged drug traffickers from Colombia, along a stretch of beach in the Panamanian province of the Darién, on the Pacific coast. The marijuana, which was packed in ten large bundles, was [...]
Colombian Arrested With 79 Kilos of Cocaine
Posted by drug@dmin in Drug Busts on June 8, 2011
7th June 2011 A Colombian man has been arrested for his connection with the seizure of 79 kilos of cocaine on Sunday evening in the area of Punta del Medio, Chagres District, Costa Abajo de Colon. The foreigner was carrying a suitcase filled with the illegal substance and was found in a house that was [...]
50kg of cocaine ‘suspended’ in oil
Posted by drug@dmin in Drug Busts on May 29, 2011
28th May 2011 AUSTRALIAN, South American and Central American law enforcement agencies have dismantled an international drug syndicate, combining to arrest 14 people for the supply and distribution of cocaine to and within Australia. Authorities took simultaneous action on 27 May in response to the importation into Australia of more than 50kg of cocaine, chemically [...]
255 kilos of Cocaine Seized in Panama
Posted by drug@dmin in Drug Busts on May 26, 2011
25th May 2011 A shipment of 255 kilos of cocaine was seized by Panamanian authorities in the western province of Chiriqui, reported the regional director of Customs, Abdiel Lezcano. The official said the shipment was intercepted Wednesday in an articulated truck by customs agents, as it approached a checkpoint in Guabala, in the area of [...]
Concert Promotion Company Linked To Suitcases Full Of Cash at Albrook Airport
Posted by drug@dmin in Drug Related on May 13, 2011
12th May 2011 A company that promotes reggaeton performers and other entertainment figures as an alleged front for the $2.3 million dollars in cash seized over the weekend at the Albrook airport, found on a private jet with US registration number N551MF which arrived from Honduras, a source said. The source reported the company has [...]
Another senior Bolivian police officer arrested on drug-trafficking suspicion
Posted by drug@dmin in Drug Busts on March 19, 2011
18th March 2011 LA PAZ, Bolivia — Bolivian authorities say they’ve arrested a police colonel on suspicion of drug trafficking, the second senior Bolivian official snared for alleged cocaine trafficking in less than a month. Prosecutor Luzgarde Alcantara says Col. Robert Miguel Valdez was arrested outside the eastern city of Santa Cruz Wednesday after agents [...]
