What began as a drug bust for the Spanish police turned into a hostage situation after a suspected cocaine smuggler killed a member of his own crew and held the others hostage on a boat from South America en route to Spain in the middle of the Atlantic, the interior ministry said on Wednesday (Feb 14).

Drug bust takes dramatic turn after Spanish police rescue alleged smuggler’s crew taken hostage

Policeman disguised as teddy bear arrests female drug dealer suspect. As per the Peruvian police, two women were found with more than 1500 portions of cocaine paste and the operation was called “the teddy of love for security."

Policeman disguised as teddy bear makes arrests in Peru

A Breaking Bad-style meth manufacturing lab was busted in Greater Noida in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, media reports said citing a Wednesday statement by the state police.

India: Breaking Bad-style meth lab busted, 9 Africans arrested with narcotics worth $24 mn

In what comes as one of the biggest drug busts in the history of Hong Kong, the authorities last week seized liquid methamphetamine, worth $140 million (HK$1.1 billion), disguised as coconut water.

1.8 tonnes of liquid meth, worth $140 mn, hidden in coconut water cartons seized by HK authorities

On Friday, India’s Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) unit in the country’s financial capital Mumbai seized 60 kilogrammes of high-quality mephedrone (MD) which is reportedly worth at least Rs 120 crore ($1.

India: Drugs worth $1.2 billion seized from two cities, former pilot among six arrested

A council member of Maldives opposition Party--People's National Congress (PNC) has been arrested in a drug bust in the country on October 12. Around 130 Kgs of drugs were confiscated from a fishing vessel, the Maldives police announced in a release.

Member of Maldives opposition arrested in a drug bust

Two customs agents have been charged in connection with Australia's largest ever onshore seizure of the drug "ice", a bust worth a record US$840 million, police said Thursday.

Customs agents charged over record Australian drug bust

The US Coast Guard says a cutter (fast patrol boat) intercepted a submarine suspected of smuggling drugs in the Pacific Ocean. The incident happened in June and the video of the drug bust was released recently.

US Coast Guard officer jumps onto moving submarine suspected of carrying drugs

The US Coast Guard says a cutter interdicted a submarine suspected of smuggling drugs in the Pacific Ocean in June. A video shows Coast Guard officers boarding the submarine and ordering those insides to open the hatch. The seizure by the US Coast Guard Cutter Munro was one of a number that occurred recently in the Pacific Ocean.

US Coast Guard seizes alleged drug sub in Pacific

Drug trafficking has been increasing around the country, especially in war-torn northern Shan State

Myanmar makes record drug bust with 30 million meth pills

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