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U.S. Border Patrol agents arrested two men who had nearly $1 million of cocaine in their vehicle near Murrieta.

A woman is facing drug smuggling charges after U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers seized around 28 pounds of cocaine inside her wheelchair’s tires last week at John F. Kennedy International Airport. According to CBP, Emelinda Paulino De Rivas, a citizen of the Dominican Republic, arrived on a flight from Punta Cana on Thursday and was traveling in a...

Cocaine production in Colombia remained near record levels in 2021, according to estimates released by the White House, raising the stakes for bilateral cooperation between the United States and Colombia’s next administration.

A Jamaican national who supplied a JetBlue flight attendant with nearly 60 pounds of cocaine that she attempted to smuggle onto a plane at Los Angeles International Airport was sentenced Thursday to nearly 14 years in federal prison.

Officials from the U.S., Colombia and Jamaica shared how infiltration by undercover officers, cooperating witnesses and confidential sources revealed the complicated plot to exchange dollars for Colombian pesos and clean the money through U.S. banks.

The U.S. Coast Guard offloaded cocaine and marijuana that had a street value of about $233 million.

U.S. Coast Guard crews offloaded in San Diego thousands of pounds of cocaine and marijuana that were seized in Eastern Pacific waters.

The agency said the drugs — 11,300 pounds of cocaine and 4,076 pounds of marijuana seized in eight interdictions — are worth about $233 million on the black market.