Drug Smuggling

One seizure involved six pieces of luggage checked onto commercial flights that contained nothing but drugs. “They didn’t even put so much as a pair of underwear in there to hide it,” Florida’s Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd said.

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.

A former Transportation Security Administration officer pleaded guilty Friday to smuggling what he believed was methamphetamine through Los Angeles International Airport in exchange for $8,000.

A former corrections officer was sentenced Thursday to more than three years behind bars for smuggling drugs and cell phones into a San Diego prison.

The U.S. Navy says it has rescued five Iranians suspected of smuggling drugs after they apparently set fire to their stash on board a traditional sailing vessel off the coast of Oman

The U.S. Navy released video on Thursday showing the moment a drug smuggling boat burst into flames off the coast of Oman.

A Mexican national who coordinated shipments of cocaine, methamphetamine and marijuana into the San Diego area and arranged to deliver them to customers in Southern California and elsewhere was sentenced in federal court to 17 years in prison. Javier Felix Bayardo, 36, entered a guilty plea Monday in the case in federal court in San Diego in August 2018, admitting…

U.S. authorities allege that Mexico’s former defense secretary helped a cartel smuggle thousands of kilograms of cocaine, heroin and other drugs into the United States in exchange for bribes

Nearly 1,500 pounds of marijuana and methamphetamine were intercepted by maritime law enforcement agents in separate incidents off the coast of San Diego County over the weekend, the agency announced on Tuesday.

Cocaine worth an estimated $338 million on the black market was seized from smugglers in the Pacific Ocean over a two-month span, according to the U.S. Coast Guard. The nearly 20,000 pounds of cocaine, seized between mid-November and mid-January in eastern Pacific waters, were offloaded from the Coast Guard Cutter Munro at Naval Base San Diego on Monday. Bags of…

A man driving with his wife and infant son in San Clemente was arrested after over half a million dollars’ worth of cocaine was discovered in their car, officials said. Agents from the U.S. Border Patrol approached the couple on Thursday and asked to search their vehicle, to border patrol. After the man agreed, agents found a duffel bag...

Authorities arrested four men suspected in an operation to use an ultralight to fly nearly 200 pounds (90 kilograms) of methamphetamine into Southern California from Mexico, the U.S. Attorney’s Office announced Monday. The arrests before dawn Friday came after U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents detected the glider-like aircraft crossing into the U.S. from Calexico, Mexico, according to a...

President Donald Trump flatly contradicted his officials Friday on how illicit drugs get into the U.S. and made a fanciful case that Mexico, without putting up a peso, is somehow paying for his proposed border wall.

Three teenagers have been arrested after allegedly trying to smuggle $143,000 worth of Fentanyl, a powerful opioid, over the U.S.-Mexico border.

The son of a leader of Mexico’s Sinaloa cartel has been indicted on U.S. drug smuggling charges.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agents arrested a man with nearly $200,000 in narcotics hidden in his car, according to San Diego CBP.

Authorities say two security screeners at San Francisco International Airport have been charged with allowing methamphetamine to be smuggled through carry-on luggage at an airport checkpoint in exchange for money.