Au cours de l’opération conduite par le Bataillon fluvial d’Infanterie de Marine n°43, sept laboratoires clandestins spécialisés dans la production de la base de pâte de coca ont été trouvés et détruits.
Plus de 1 670 kilos de feuille de coca, 745 kilos de pâte de base de coca, 475 kilos de précurseur chimiques solides et environ 1 760 gallons de précurseurs chimiques liquides ont été trouvés.
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Eleven people have been charged with attempting to smuggle more than 300 kilos of cannabis into the UK via Heathrow and Gatwick airports over the space of two days.
National Crime Agency investigators questioned the individuals following their arrest by Border Force officers, after they which they were charged with smuggling class B drugs.
Paige Jonas-Willingham, 21, of no fixed abode, and Paul Lambert, 42, from Salford, arrived on Saturday (21 September) on a flight from Bangkok, via Muscat. Approximately 45 kilos of cannabis was found in two suitcases from the same flight.
A third person, Raekelle Powell, 22, a professional volleyball player from Toronto in Canada arrived the same day on a flight from that city and was stopped after officers discovered approximately 19 kilos of the drug in suitcases.
A fourth person, Victoria Roberson, 35, from California, USA, arrived on the same day and was stopped after officers discovered approximately 36 kilos of cannabis in checked-in baggage.
On Sunday, Siobhan McTavey, 24, from Northern Ireland, arrived on a flight from Bangkok via Doha. Border Force officers found 45 kilos of the drug in baggage.
Malaysian national Chew Meu Wong, 42, arrived from Bangkok via Bahrain and was arrested after 43 kilos of cannabis was found in a bag.
Canadian nationals Christopher Duffell, 44, and Tania Fetherston, 51, who arrived on a flight from Toronto via Copenhagen, were arrested after 30.7 kilos and 34.7 kilos of the drug were found in luggage.
Malaysian national Siew Fong Chua, 33, who arrived on a flight from Bangkok, was arrested after 17.1 kilos of the drug was found in luggage.
Two people were also arrested at Gatwick after two bags which each contained 20 kilos of cannabis were seized. They were Peter Kargbo, 22, from Wolverhampton, who had arrived on a flight from Bangkok on Saturday, and 29-year-old Canadian national Malik Barrett, who had arrived on a flight from Toronto on Sunday.
Jonas-Willingham, Lambert, Roberson, Powell and McTavey all appeared at Uxbridge Magistrates Court on Tuesday (24 September), with Chua, Fetherston, Duffell and Wong appearing yesterday. All were remanded into custody before their next appearance at Isleworth Crown Court on 24 October.
Kargbo and Barrett appeared at Croydon Magistrates Court on Tuesday, where they were remanded into custody before their next appearances at Croydon Crown Court on 21 October and 28 October respectively.
Between the 14th and 20th September 17 people have been arrested and charged with attempting to traffic approximately 618 kilos of cannabis into the UK. They include professional footballer Jay Emmanuel-Thomas and Nathaniel Benson, who are currently remanded in custody ahead of their next court appearances.
In August, the NCA issued a warning to travellers arriving into the UK from Thailand, Canada and the USA that they face jail sentences if caught attempting to smuggle cannabis into the country. However, arrests are still being made and the amount of cannabis seized in the UK so far in 2024 is three times more than the whole of 2023.
The increase in these seizures is fuelled by organised crime gangs who have access to cannabis grown overseas, in locations where it is legal, who are recruiting couriers to transport it to the UK where it can generate greater profit for them than growing the drugs themselves.
NCA Branch Commander Andy Noyes said:
“The NCA continues to warn people attempting to smuggle huge quantities of cannabis into the country.
“The gangs behind the trafficking of cannabis into the UK do not care that the couriers will likely be arrested and end up in prison – their sole purpose is to make money.
“Anyone who attempts to smuggle drugs into the UK needs to know that you will be identified, you will be arrested and you will spend time in prison.”
The NCA continues to work with law enforcement partners in both the UK and overseas to target high-risk routes, seize shipments of drugs and disrupt the criminal gangs involved, denying them profits.
Anyone with information on the smuggling of drugs through UK ports is urged to report it, anonymously if they prefer, by calling Border Force’s Customs Hotline on 0800 595 000.
25 September 2024
On l’a vu, au Paraguay, l’organisme chargé de surveiller les identités et les immatriculations d’avions du pays était miné par le trafic, certains responsables étant eux-mêmes des trafiquants !
Pour les enquêteurs, autant retrouver une aiguille dans une botte de marijuana !
Parmi eux, des aéronefs sortis d’un hangar particulier : celui d’Helitactica, qui est celui aussi qui effectue sous contrat la maintenance pour l’armée et de la police !!!
On croit à nouveau rêver devant cette duplicité !!!
La parution, en juillet 2021 de la liste de 914 avions déclarés « actifs » répertoriés dans le pays redonne l’espoir d’y voir un peu plus clair : peine perdue, réalisée par la DINAC, pour ne pas dire torchée à à la va-vite, truffée d’erreurs, elle ne contient aucune immatriculation paraguayenne et simplement les numéros de série à la suite les uns des autres, sans aucun ordre, à nous de les ré-associer en quelque sorte. Un jeu lassant, dont on serait bien passé !!! Dedans, une majorité de Cessna de type 210 et 206, puis des modèles 182, également bien représentés, une cinquantaine de Piper, et en fin de peloton 8 hélicoptères Robinson seulement, un seul Rockwell 114 (le ZP-TNY) et quelques autres raretés, comme on va le voir dans cet épisode et le suivant.
C’est à lire dans le dernier Coke en Stock
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September 27, 2024
STAMFORD, Conn. – Vanessa Roberts Avery, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that DELROY ANDERSON, also known as “Max,” 57, formerly of Stamford, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Kari A. Dooley in Bridgeport to 13 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release…
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September 27, 2024
RENO, Nevada – Over 700 students representing multiple high schools and middle schools in Washoe County and Douglas County participated in the Northern Nevada Opioid Youth Summit, on Tuesday, September 24. ‘Avengers’ actor Jeremy Renner and ‘Wolf Pack’ announcer Taylor Morgan were among presenters, who stepped up to the plate…
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September 26, 2024
Two sheriff’s deputies who allegedly tipped off a drug trafficker about an impending DEA raid are being federally prosecuted, announced DEA Special Agent in Charge Towanda R. Thorne-James, U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Leigha Simonton, and FBI Special Agent in Charge Raul Bujanda. Bernalillo County Sheriff’s Office…
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September 25, 2024
BOISE, Idaho – A large-scale Organized Crime and Drug Enforcement Task Force (OCDETF) investigation has resulted in the federal indictments of ten Magic Valley defendants on drug trafficking charges. An additional ten defendants have been charged in Idaho state courts for their actions connected to the conspiracy. “DEA stands with…
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September 25, 2024
BURLINGTON, Vt. – The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont announced that on September 12, 2024, a federal grand jury returned an indictment charging Theodore Bland, 29, of Stowe, Vermont, with conspiracy to distribute cocaine base, possession of cocaine base and fentanyl with intent to…
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September 25, 2024
BOSTON – The leader of a nationwide drug trafficking ring has been sentenced in federal court in Boston. During the investigation over 160 pounds of pure methamphetamine, as well as an AK-47, a Glock with no serial number, two loaded Smith & Wesson handguns and over 4,200 rounds of ammunition…
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This week, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration and the Hellenic Republic Ministry of Citizen Protection presided over the 38th annual International Drug Enforcement Conference (IDEC) in Greece. Hundreds of top drug enforcement officials from more than 130 countries discussed innovative ways to expand international cooperation with a focus on this year’s conference theme: Beyond Borders: Expanding Global Partnerships.
This solution-focused event served as a platform to discuss advancing technologies and the expansion of strategic partnerships to enhance global interdiction efforts and address emerging and evolving drug-related threats, including the evolution of synthetic drugs, advent of cryptocurrency, and intricacies of complex, global money laundering.
“Drug trafficking knows no boundaries and remains a critical issue for every nation represented at IDEC. Global criminal drug networks operate without regard for geographic borders or the rule of law, and defeating them requires a united and coordinated worldwide effort. DEA is proud to partner with the countries represented here to save lives and make communities around the world safer” said DEA Administrator Anne Milgram. “IDEC brings together influential drug law enforcement leaders that are committed to building strategic relationships and expanding global cooperation. I want to thank the Government of Greece, Ministry of Citizen Protection, and the Hellenic National Police their hospitality and longstanding partnership.”
The Minister of Citizen Protection, Michalis Chrisochoidis underlined the excellent cooperation between the DEA and the Greek authorities in effectively combating drug trafficking criminal networks and emphasized international cooperation and interoperability as key principles for combating very tough, strong, large, and closed groups of organized crime. He described these principles as « the pillars upon which we must build, improve, and strengthen in order to erect a barrier against these international criminal networks. »
The Chief of the Hellenic Police, Lieutenant General Dimitrios Mallios, emphasized the « paramount importance of international cooperation, the timely and accurate exchange of operational intelligence, the sharing of best practices, findings, and strategic information regarding the evolving methodologies of criminal networks, as well as the building of trust and bonds among law enforcement officials, who are ultimately called upon to assess the intelligence, plan, and operate in the field, with the common goal of dismantling global drug-trafficking criminal organizations. »
Since IDEC’s inception in 1983, DEA and its rotating nation partners have hosted international agency heads and drug law enforcement leaders to enhance global intelligence efforts; strengthen transnational investigations, interdictions, and prosecutions; and disrupt the illicit drug trade. As the world’s largest international drug law enforcement conference, IDEC aims to leverage information-sharing and enhance shared responsibilities to combat global drug trafficking.
This event was also made possible by the support of U.S. Department of States’ Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs, the Colombo Plan, and the Drug Enforcement Association of Federal Narcotics Agents.
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