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A citizen of Montenegro pleaded guilty to conspiring with at least seven other crew members aboard a cargo ship to hauling more than 20 tons of cocaine. They were busted after stopping in Philadelphia in 2019.

Authorities seized animals including a white Bengal tiger, bobcat, kinkajou, porcupines, llamas, emus and deer after finding them at a South Texas residence while executing a search warrant last week.

The Los Angeles Angels’ director of communication told federal investigators that he provided oxycodone to Tyler Skaggs and abused the drug with the pitcher, according to an ESPN report published Saturday.

Two men are in custody following a massive heroin and pill bust in Delaware, officials announced Thursday.

Two men were charged in a massive heroin and fentanyl-laced pill bust in Delaware. NBC10’s Tim Furlong has the details.

The Justice Department is moving forward to expand the number of marijuana growers for federally-authorized cannabis research.

The MSC Gayane cargo ship has been under investigation since federal agents found about 16 tons of cocaine on the ship in South Philadelphia. Two crew members face charges in one of the largest drug seizures in recent memory.

An employee of a South Jersey fertility clinic is accused of swiping dozens of doses of the powerful narcotic fentanyl.

Three Georgia women bought a box of Legos while visiting a South Carolina consignment shop, only to find that the box was actually filled with about $40,000 worth of methamphetamine. Bulloch County Sheriff’s Investigator Jim Riggs tells The Statesboro Herald that the women gifted the box to a child, who opened it and discovered the three pounds of drugs. Deputies...

The pharmaceutical industry executive hit Tuesday with criminal charges stemming from the opioid crisis doesn’t have his name on a museum wing, and his company isn’t within earshot of Apple or anyone else on the Fortune 500. Even his $1.5 million paycheck was a paltry sum compared to his peers. Laurence Doud III, the retired CEO of the Rochester Drug...

The Drug Enforcement Administration has seized around $150 million worth of opioids from two men in New Jersey, the agency said.

In the same Brooklyn courthouse where jurors have heard testimony about Mexican politicians protecting Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman’s drug empire, a former Mexican state attorney general pleaded guilty last month to taking bribes from narcotraffickers. The juxtaposition underscored a recurring theme of Guzman’s New York trial: how pervasive official corruption in Mexico complicates American authorities’ efforts to investigate and apprehend...

Newly unsealed documents about notorious Mexican drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman contain claims by witnesses that he had sex with minors he called “vitamins,” a disturbing allegation coming just as a jury is about to start deliberating in his U.S. drug-trafficking case. According to papers made public late Friday, a key government cooperator told authorities Guzman had him drug...

A doctor who owns an urgent care facility in Irvine was arrested Tuesday on charges of illegally distributing opioids, including to a man charged with running over and killing an off-duty Costa Mesa fire captain riding his bicycle in Mission Viejo.

The Drug Enforcement Administration says meth hidden inside wax figurines depicting Disney characters has been confiscated near Atlanta and is worth roughly $2 million. It is one of the biggest meth busts ever in Gwinnett County, the DEA told WSB-TV. The drugs were concealed inside 500 figurines depicting Winnie the Pooh, Donald Duck, Pluto and other Disney characters. DEA Atlanta...

For the first time since he began hunting one of the world’s most notorious drug lords, the man who helped make the second capture of Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, in 2014, is revealing his identity and telling his story. Former Drug Enforcement Administration special agent Andrew Hogan appeared on the “Today” show Wednesday to talk about the intricate tactics he...

U.S. health authorities say an herbal supplement promoted as an alternative pain remedy contains the same chemicals found in opioids, the addictive family of drugs at the center of a national addiction crisis.

With opioids killing more people than any other health crisis in Pennsylvania’s history, Gov. Tom Wolf on Wednesday declared a disaster emergency that suspends regulations hindering access to addiction care.

The scourage of opioids and heroin has reached disastrous proportions in Pennsylvania, prompting Gov. Tom Wolf to declare a statewide disaster emergency to combat the epidemic.

The crew of a Coast Guard cutter used to finding bales of cocaine floating on the ocean got a surprise last month: a sea turtle trapped amid the contraband, NBC News reported. The crew of the cutter Thetis found the creature in the eastern Pacific after a military plane spotted a debris field of 26 packages strung together, amounting to...