Wedding allegedly ran the billion-dollar operation for the past 13 years from Mexico, from where the organization allegedly moved about 60 tons of cocaine per year.
The South African Police Service and the Hawks have been working overtime busting massive drug operations across the country.
It is not known how the sharks have been feeding on the drug, but a bunch of theories exist.
The two South African engineers – Frederic Potgieter (53) from George and Peter Huxham (55) from Langebaan – are still imprisoned in Equatorial Guinea and are trying to appeal their drug smuggling conviction.
Capetonian David Harte, 64, has invented and patented a light bulb socket able to mechanically and electrically interface both screw-type and bayonet-type light bulbs as well as downlight-type light bulbs.
Dissolute actor Johnny Depp will be returning to our screens, just weeks after a jury found in his favour.
British gangs are now collaborating with international crime groups, like Italy’s powerful ‘Ndrangheta mafia clan, which controls much of Europe’s cocaine trade.
One of South Africa’s biggest drug busts, which took place in March along the West Coast, has seen three Bulgarian nationals sentenced.
US authorities have uncovered another border tunnel between America and Mexico, and this one contained a massive drug haul.
US authorities have found what they say is the longest drug-smuggling tunnel ever discovered on the south-west border of Mexico.
A four-year-old boy who was with his mom when she was caught smuggling drugs into Mauritius has been returned to South Africa.
The US Coast Guard chased down a boat crew of drug smugglers, who decided it wasn’t worth holding on to the evidence.
Smuggling drugs into prison is fraught with danger, and in the past gangs have used pigeons and tennis balls. Now they’re branching out.
If you’re thinking of getting into the drug trafficking game, Posh Pete’s story should be of interest to you. I think we can all learn some lessons here.
Italian police are pretty chuffed with their latest massive cocaine bust, where they managed to get one over the smugglers with some crafty work.
The SAPS have arrested three people in separate incidents of alleged drug smuggling at OR Tambo International Airport.
Death penalty for SA drug trafficker. Trump goes after Google. Malema says Msimanga next. New 9/11 conspiracy. Life in Constantia vs Camps Bay. Chocapocalypse. Aretha’s ‘diva’ casket. Lady Gaga nude.
The World Cup is big business right around the world, and even drug smugglers are looking for some creative ways to cash in.
If you were offered a whopping amount of money to act as a drug-smuggler’s decoy, would you take it? Don’t – that’s what got the cocaine babes into trouble.
Cocaine is a helluva drug, and smuggling it can be a very lucrative business. Unless you’re caught trying to re-enter the country with a stomach full of it.
There’s nothing strange about two young ladies enjoying the good life aboard a cruise ship, but how they paid for it all is somewhat out the box.
There’s a stretch of the U.S – Mexican border that is known for its illicit tunnels, although this one might just take the cake.
Cricket, the gentlemen’s game that still calls the breaks between sessions ‘lunch’ and ‘tea’. This woman didn’t exactly uphold the virtues of the game though.
Sailing around the Caribbean on a yacht sounds like a pretty good time, but when you are carrying over two tonnes of cocaine on board things can go south very quickly.
The tragic Costa Concordia crash of 2012 has seen the captain found guilty of a handful of crimes. Now it seems someone else on the boat was up to no good.
Have you ever watched the program ‘Border Security: Australia’? If you have, you’ll know that Australian border-control officials are some of the toughest in the business, taking no kak from no one. However, one unwitting elderly couple managed to slip through the system, after it emerged that their bags had been lined with methamphetamine while they were away in Canada.
Two British girls are being held in a Peruvian jail on suspicion of drug smuggling. Police reportedly found 11kg’s of cocaine in their luggage, valued at R23 million.
I wonder how high they were when they thought of this. Police were elated when they found a cannon that had been customised in order to fire packets of marijuana across the border into California from the city of Mexicali. The plastic pipe and metal tank was attached to a old car engine which it […]
Last week, it was reported that another South African had been arrested abroad for trying to smuggle drugs into another country. Kathlyn Dunn (28) was arrested last week at Lombok International Airport after arriving on a flight from Singapore. Her goal was to carry 2,6kg of methamphetamine, with a street value of R4,4m into the Indonesian resort island of Lombok.
Shani Krebs has been living in a (reportedly revolting) maximum security Thai prison called Bang Kwang Central – lovingly referred to by inmates as the ‘Bangkok Hilton’ – since before South Africa became a democracy. Krebs is the longest-serving farang or foreigner in the institution, for which he’s earned a rather tragic reputation. He’s at last been released and will soon return to the ‘new’ SA.