Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #drugtrade, aggregated by home.social.
Tongan man deported from Australia convicted over bid to set up Comancheros gang branch
A Tongan man deported from Australia has been convicted over his role in establishing a branch of the…
#Australia #AU #Austrlia #bikies #Cocaine #Comacheros #deportees #drugsmuggling #drugtrade #drugtrafficking #Gangs #Methamphetamine #narcosubs #outlawmotorcyclegangs #pacificislands #Tongacourts
https://www.europesays.com/australia/111288/
https://www.europesays.com/3263244/ International interest mounts in Estonian scientists’ drug-detection meter | News #DrugDetection #DrugHunter #DrugTesting #DrugTrade #Eesti #estonia #IllicitDrugs #JekaterinaMazinašinkar #JelenaGorbatšova #narcotics #ppa #safepas #TallinnUniversityOfTechnology #TalTech #Uudised #WARONDRUGS
International interest mounts in Estonian scientists’ drug-detection meter | News
Developers at Tallinn University of Technology (TalTech) and startup SafePAS say the “Narcometer” device has drawn international interest…
#Estonia #EE #Europe #Europa #EU #drugdetection #drughunter #DrugTesting #drugtrade #Eesti #estonia #illicitdrugs #jekaterinamazina-šinkar #jelenagorbatšova #narcotics #ppa #safepas #tallinnuniversityoftechnology #TalTech #Uudised #WARONDRUGS
https://www.europesays.com/3263244/
International interest mounts in Estonian scientists’ drug-detection meter | News https://www.byteseu.com/2382515/ #DrugDetection #DrugHunter #DrugTesting #DrugTrade #Estonia #IllicitDrugs #JekaterinaMazinašinkar #JelenaGorbatšova #narcotics #PPA #safepas #TallinnUniversityOfTechnology #taltech #WarOnDrugs
ARE AUSTRALIA'S AFP 'EEJITS'?
Panic stations! Australian Federal Police Commissioner Krissy Barrett has raised the alarm about the country's "voracious consumption of illicit drugs"!
Just don't mention prohibition. That's a given, it seems.
Her "solutions" are to "educate people about the dangers of illicit drugs" as if this will stop people wanting to have a good time. It's a return to Nancy Reagan's failed "Just say no" campaign.
And in the hallowed tradition of idiocy – doing the same thing over and again while expecting different results – Barrett's other "solution" is to create a task force which will go to Columbia to quell its $10 bn per year drug trade. Appropriately it is named "IJIT" – international joint investigations team. Barrett laments the murderous daily street shootings in south-west Sydney and blames it on the demand for drugs, apparently unaware of the direct parallels with alcohol prohibition in the 1930s which featured tommy-gun battles in the streets between rival bootleg gangs.
Barrett also ignores the dangers of legal alcohol, opioids and tobacco, where a similar attempt at prohibition via steep tax hikes has resulted in another bootleg trade involving regular arson attacks on businesses.
Only an 'eejit' would believe in this nonsense but hey, the police do very well out of fighting drugs prohibition which brings them large budgets, easy arrests and great paths to promotions.
Just don't mention prohibition.
Meanwhile I think Barrett (pictured} needs educating about human nature and making up laughable acronyms. I also wonder if Ms Barrett has weighed up the opportunity costs of drug enforcement in Columbia vs pressing domestic concerns such as, erm, terrorism. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08-25/afp-colombia-drugs-taskforce-leaves-questions-unanswered/106989490
#auspol #drugtrade #prohibition
#fascists #Italy #Mafia #DrugTrade
"Mafia boss arrested for murder of neo-fascist Lazio Ultra leader
Seven Mafia members have been arrested in Rome, more than seven years after the murder of Lazio ultra boss Fabrizio Piscitelli.
They are suspected of having ordered and organized the murder of Piscitelli, also known as Diabolik, the Carabinieri announced in a statement on Wednesday.
(. . .)
The alleged gunman was sentenced to life imprisonment in 2026, but was acquitted by the Court of Appeal earlier this year.
The authorities suspect that a power struggle over the lucrative drug trade was the motive.
Piscitelli, who was involved in drug dealing alongside his role as leader of a neo-fascist 'ultra' group supporting the Roman football club Lazio, is said to have increasingly distanced himself from the directives of the dominant Senese clan.
Senese wanted to send a message with the murder and act as a deterrent to maintain his power."
https://www.yahoo.com/news/world/articles/mafia-boss-arrested-murder-neo-121835163.html
Inside Colombia's Cocaine Factories
https://www.economist.com/interactive/1843/2026/08/28/inside-colombias-cocaine-factories
Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49520170
#HackerNews #Colombia #Cocaine #DrugTrade #Narcotics #Economy #Crime
Narco-State-Style Shooting in the Netherlands–34 Arrested
Lawyer for Penn State frat bro’s dad charged in coke ring makes wild claim
The Pittsburgh attorney swept up in a drug trafficking scandal at Penn State claims he was given a…
#NewsBeep #News #Topstories #cocaine #drugtrade #drugs #Fraternities #Headlines #PennState #TopStories #USNews
https://www.newsbeep.com/699462/
https://www.europesays.com/news/68315/ Lawyer for Penn State frat bro’s dad charged in coke ring makes wild claim #Cocaine #DrugTrade #Drugs #fraternities #Headlines #News #PennState #TopStories #USNews
Penn State frat bro thought he was being pranked during cocaine ring bust — then cops tasered him
An accused drug kingpin in a Penn State cocaine trafficking ring was tasered and arrested after he allegedly…
#NewsBeep #News #Topstories #cocaine #drugbusts #drugtrade #Fraternities #Headlines #PennState #PennStateNittanyLions #TopStories #USNews
https://www.newsbeep.com/698322/
https://www.europesays.com/news/67895/ Penn State frat bro thought he was being pranked during cocaine ring bust — then cops tasered him #Cocaine #DrugBusts #DrugTrade #fraternities #Headlines #News #PennState #PennStateNittanyLions #TopStories #USNews
Penn State frat bro thought he was being pranked during cocaine ring bust — then cops tasered him
An accused drug kingpin in a Penn State cocaine trafficking ring was tasered and arrested after he allegedly…
#UnitedStates #US #USA #america #cocaine #drugbusts #drugtrade #fraternities #PennState #PennStateNittanyLions #unitedstatesofamerica #USnews #USAnews
https://www.europesays.com/3204347/
https://www.europesays.com/3204347/ Penn State frat bro thought he was being pranked during cocaine ring bust — then cops tasered him #america #cocaine #DrugBusts #DrugTrade #fraternities #PennState #PennStateNittanyLions #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #US #USNews #USA #USANews
Pregnant woman among 3 killed in suspected gang shooting in Spain
Three people have been shot dead in a suspected revenge attack linked to the drug trade in southwestern…
#Spain #ES #Europe #Europa #EU #andalusia #drugtrade #GuardiaCivil #huelva #IslaCristina #RTVE
https://www.europesays.com/spain/71733/
SF Farmers Market allows laundering food stamps for drug purchases
Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48867079
#HackerNews #SFMarket #FoodStamps #DrugTrade #SocialIssues #CommunityImpact #EthicsInFood
Công an TP.HCM đã triệt phá thành công đường dây buôn bán khí N₂O (khí cười) – hàng cấm – thông qua mạng xã hội và các ứng dụng nhắn tin ẩn danh. Phòng Cảnh sát kinh tế xác định nhóm đối tượng tổ chức, điều hành hoạt động buôn bán trái phép này trên nền tảng mạng, che giấu danh tính để tránh sự phát hiện. Các đối tượng đã bị khởi tố và bắt tạm giam để điều tra.
#CriminalInvestigation #Cybercrime #DrugTrade #HoChiMinhCityPolice #AnNinhMang #BuônBánHàngCấm #KhíCười #CôngAnTPHCM #TộiPhạmMạngXãHộ
Trump’s Fake Drug War: Pardons Honduran President Convicted Of 400 Tons, Illegally Invades & Arrests Venezuela’s President Over Weaker Charges
The University of Pennsylvania Press is offering 40% off available titles with code PENN-HOLIDAY25. 📚
They've got histories of the #DrugTrade (hint: it started earlier than you think), #pearls in the #Mongol Empire, and this 👇 history of how Black #enslavement in the #AtlanticWorld coexisted with powerful #African kingdoms. 🌍
https://www.pennpress.org/9780812224627/african-kings-and-black-slaves/
#history #histodons @histodons #bookstodon #BlackHistory #slavery
Trump’s pardon of a convicted trafficker undermines drug war narrative
MEXICO CITY — Juan Orlando Hernández, a convicted drug trafficker who prosecutors said “paved a cocaine superhighway” to the United…
#NewsBeep #News #Headlines #cartel #drugtrade #hernandez #Honduras #lossoles #NicolasMaduro #pardon #president #socialmedium #trafficker #Trump #u.s. #UnitedStates #Us #USA #Venezuela #WhiteHouse #year
https://www.newsbeep.com/287028/
‘WE’VE GOT HIS BACK’: Hegseth, Trump sets record straight on narco boat strikes (Video)
President Donald Trump and Secretary of War Pete Hegseth respond to questions about air strikes on drug trafficking boats amid Capitol Hill probe. #fox #media #breakingnews #us #usa #new #news #breaking #foxnews #trump #donaldtrump #petehegseth #military #war #airstrikes #drugs #drugtrade #cartel #border #capitolhill #washingtondc #washington #dc #crime #crimenews #crimestory…
The Ex-President Whom Trump Plans to Pardon Flooded America With Cocaine
Juan Orlando Hernández, whom Mr. #Trump called a victim of persecution, helped orchestrate a decades-long trafficking conspiracy. It ravaged his #CentralAmerican country.
By Santul NerkarAnnie Correal and Colin Moynihan
Nov. 29, 2025, 7:16 p.m. ET
from #NewYorkTimes #NYT
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He once boasted that he would “stuff the drugs up the gringos’ noses.” He accepted a $1 million bribe from El Chapo to allow #cocaine shipments to pass through Honduras. A man was killed in prison to protect him.
At the federal trial of #JuanOrlandoHernández in New York, testimony and evidence showed how the former president maintained #Honduras as a bastion of the global drug trade. He orchestrated a vast trafficking conspiracy that prosecutors said raked in millions for #cartels...
Alleged accomplice of Canadian snowboarder-turned-drug kingpin Ryan Wedding arrested in Canada https://www.byteseu.com/1568572/ #arrests #Canada #DrugTrade #MoneyLaundering #USNews #WorldNews
Ecuadorian drug kingpin Wilmer ‘Pipo’ Chavarria arrested in Spain 4 years after faking his death https://www.byteseu.com/1548021/ #arrests #DrugCartels #DrugTrade #Ecuador #Spain #WorldNews
Ecuadorian drug kingpin Wilmer ‘Pipo’ Chavarria arrested in Spain 4 years after faking his death
One of Ecuador’s most wanted drug traffickers was arrested in Spain on Sunday — four years after faking…
#Spain #ES #Europe #Europa #EU #arrests #drugcartels #drugtrade #Ecuador #spain #WorldNews
https://www.europesays.com/2574972/
"Just when you thought business plans couldn’t get any more ‘high’ stakes, a UK business owner gets a one-way ticket to the big house for smuggling ecstasy tablets. Guess that’s one way to experience ‘entrepreneurial highs’! #BusinessFails #DrugTrade #ITVNews" Source: https://theinformer.uk
Surveillance Used by a Drug Cartel – Source: www.schneier.com https://ciso2ciso.com/surveillance-used-by-a-drug-cartel-source-www-schneier-com/ #rssfeedpostgeneratorecho #SchneierOnSecurity #SchneieronSecurity #CyberSecurityNews #Uncategorized #surveillance #geolocation #drugtrade #privacy #Reports #fbi
Surveillance Used by a Drug Cartel
Once you build a surveillance system, you can’t control who will use it:
A hacker working for the Sinaloa drug cartel was able to obtai... https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/07/surveillance-used-by-a-drug-cartel.html
#Uncategorized #surveillance #geolocation #drugtrade #privacy #reports #FBI
A clue to where all that #Fentanyl comes from. It ain't Mexico.
#eWorldTrade was a front.
#Pakistan-i Firm Shipped Fentanyl Analogs, Scams to US – Krebs on Security
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2025/05/pakistani-firm-shipped-fentanyl-analogs-scams-to-us/ #DrugTrade #Drugs
Japanese and Australian authorities are not looking for ‘Kelly’, the romance scammer responsible for the imprisonment of their Australian victim.
It’s a sure bet that Drug smugglers trust that authorities won’t bother investigating further. Because authorities are often happy with ‘small wins’, so they can ‘close the case’ and move on.
🤷🏻
#AusPol #DrugTrade #ThisIsJapan #Tourism
"Now, Latin American drug lords are using the same currents and trade winds that islanders have relied on for centuries to connect and expand their colossal, criminal empires."
Sean Williams and Kevin Knodell for New Lines Magazine: https://longreads.com/2025/02/19/tracking-the-pacific-drug-highway/
#Longreads #Drugs #Meth #Cocaine #DrugTrade #NewZealand #Australia #Oceania #Cartels #OrganizedCrime #PacificOcean
Behind India’s Manipur conflict: A tale of drugs, armed groups and politics
The drug trade has played a significant role in the political landscape as well as in heightening the conflict in Manipur.
#manipur #ManipurUnrest #meiteis #KukiZos #DrugTrade #BJPStates #india
Friday Squid Blogging: Operation Squid
Operation Squid found 1.3 tons of cocaine hidden in frozen fish.
As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories i... https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2024/03/friday-squid-blogging-operation-squid.html
Friday Squid Blogging: Operation Squid https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2024/03/friday-squid-blogging-operation-squid.html #Uncategorized #drugtrade #squid
Friday Squid Blogging: Operation Squid https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2024/03/friday-squid-blogging-operation-squid.html #Uncategorized #drugtrade #squid
After a Taliban crackdown virtually extinguished opium production in Afghanistan, Burma has overtaken it as the largest producer: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/dec/12/myanmar-opium-biggest-producer-overtaking-afghanistan-unodc-study
#war #conflict #drugs #heroin #drugtrade #drugwar #drugwars #burma #myanmar #poppy #poppies #theguardian #agencefrancepresse
Global News BC: Kelowna Mounties suspend five drivers during one-day enforcement blitz https://globalnews.ca/news/9725308/kelowna-mounties-driving-enforcement-blitz/ #globalnews #britishcolumbia #news #NationalImpairedDrivingEnforcementDay #90-DayImmediateRoadsideProhibitions #ImmediateRoadsideProhibition #DrugImpairment #Sgt.MarkBooth #DrugTrade #Crime #IRP
Mexican Drug Cartels with High-Tech Spyware https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2020/12/mexican-drug-cartels-with-high-tech-spyware.html #Uncategorized #cyberweapons #surveillance #drugtrade #privacy #spyware #Mexico
