Drug trafficking

10 May 2022, Mexico, Mexico City: A woman holds a banner during a protest on Mother's Day demanding the government's help in the search for their missing children. Photo: Jair Cabrera Torres/dpa.

World

WAR ON DRUGS

Number of 'disappeared' in Mexico exceeds 100,000

The Nomad Today/dpa 5/17/22

According to organizations that search for people who have disappeared, many families do not report missing loved ones because of distrust in the authorities

An agent of the National Police, next to the drugs and other materials seized during the house search. Photo: Policia Nacional.

Spain

DRUG TRAFFICKING

Spanish police arrest parents for forcing son to sell drugs at school

The Nomad Today 4/15/22

Inside a modified butane cylinder, the police officers found a 9mm pistol, with the serial number erased, and a 22mm caliber pistol, as well as ammunition and a balaclava

13/04/2022. Image of some of the cannabis plants seized by the Navarre Foral Police and the Civil Guard. Photo: @policiaforal_na/Twitter.

Spain

DRUG TRAFFICKING

Spain's police find large-scale cannabis plantation of 415,000 plants

The Nomad Today 4/13/22

The plantation had an extension of 67 hectares

Spain

CRIME

More than 30 arrested in major anti-drug operation in Mallorca

The Nomad Today/dpa 4/2/22

According to media reports, around 200 officers were deployed to search dozens of flats, bars and offices

A Spanish police officer. Photo: @policia/Twitter.

Spain

MADRID

Police dismantle drug trafficking group led by 'experienced chemist'

The Nomad Today 1/11/22

Three people have been arrested when they tried to transfer 101 kilograms of cocaine from an industrial warehouse located in the municipality of Torrejón de Ardoz

16 December 2021, Hamburg: A customs officer diplays pressed and highly concentrated cocaine from after a large cocaine stash was seized, during a press conference of the Hamburg customs. Photo: Christian Charisius/dpa.

Spain

DRUGS

Infamous Spanish drugs baron dead at 89

The Nomad Today/dpa 1/2/22

According to the Spanish authorities, the gang controls one of the largest drug trafficking rings in Europe from Galicia

FILED - Colombia's President Ivan Duque gives a speech during a press conference regarding the first line of Bogota's metro system that will be opened by 2028. Photo: Chepa Beltran/LongVisual via ZUMA Wire/dpa

World

DRUG TRAFFICKING

Colombia authorities capture country's most wanted trafficker

The Nomad Today/dpa 10/24/21

President Ivan Duque said in a press conference the arrest was "only comparable to the capture of Pablo Escobar," the drug lord killed in a shootout with police in 1993