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Iraq Torches Giant Haul of Illegal Drugs

Iraq on Sunday burnt some six tons of illegal drugs including vast piles of cannabis, captagon and cocaine, in what officials said was the largest destruction for over a decade. Government officials, wearing white coveralls and face masks, piled the drugs in holes dug into the sand, doused them with…

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Three more men jailed for role played in 'slick' Newcastle cocaine conspiracy

David Storey, 29, Alexander Bales, 25, and Jace Farrell, 26, were jailed for more than 14 years in total

Chronicle Live

Garland moves to end disparities in crack cocaine sentencing

Attorney General Merrick Garland is moving to end sentencing disparities that have imposed harsher penalties for different forms of cocaine and worsened racial inequity in the U.S. justice system

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Attorney General Orders Prosecutors To End Crack Cocaine Sentencing Disparity as Congress Dithers

The move comes as legislation flounders in Congress to end the crack-powder sentencing disparity once and for all.

Reason

Liz Truss attacks 'untrue' claim cocaine was found at her grace-and-favour home

A spokesman for Liz Truss claimed it was 'categorically untrue' - while Boris Johnson was 'surprised' by separate allegations that white powder was found after No10 parties

Daily Mirror

EncroChat kingpins who ran drugs lab trafficked lorry loads of heroin and speed

Terence Earle ran a criminal network running heroin, cocaine and amphetamines between Merseyside and Scotland

Liverpool Echo

Crime gang convicted over ‘industrial scale’ £1.1m Motherwell amphetamine factory

The group, who also trafficked heroin and cocaine across the border between England and Scotland, used the encrypted communication platform EncroChat to organise their criminal dealings.

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Traces of suspected cocaine found after parties in Liz Truss’s grace-and-favour house, say staff

Exclusive: White powder residue found after events held at Chevening and Downing Street, say sources

The Guardian - UK

Man headbutted teenager after wrongly accusing him of giving his brother cocaine

The irony was Cameron Wilson was under the influence of cocaine and alcohol when he carried out the assault in Porthcawl

Wales Online

Members of drugs gang jailed for playing their part in 'professional' Newcastle cocaine conspiracy

Liam Pow, 33, Scott Ridley, 32, Christopher Phillips, 30, and Tiffany Day, 30, were all part of a major class A drugs conspiracy

Chronicle Live

Cocaine haul worth $90m seized in Sydney

A 250-kilogram shipment of cocaine has been seized by police in Sydney where an organised crime task force has been established to trace it back to its origins.

AAP

Bodybuilder ex-cop who kneed and punched tragic Andre Moura during arrest can now be exposed as convicted steroid dealer

Christian Bolger sold Class C drugs to an undercover GMP officer while suspended following Mr Moura's death

Manchester Evening News

Andre Moura: Dad died after taking cocaine and having 'high-stressing, physical struggle with police', inquest jury concludes

Andre Moura, 30, was detained by officers outside his home on Seventh Avenue in the Limeside area of Oldham in July 2018

Manchester Evening News

Gang trafficked children to flood streets with heroin and crack cocaine

The gang's leader did his bidding from prison

Nottingham Post

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Irish Mirror

Young Dublin woman caught with €240k worth of heroin and cocaine in Tesco bag avoids jail

Kirsty Cummins was found in possession of heroin and cocaine

Liverpool Echo

'Cocaine' found after driver pulled over by police

Anthony Holmes, 39, of Hall Street, Southport, has been charged with possession with intent to supply a controlled Class A drug

Liverpool Echo

'Bullet Hawk' rants at judge as he's jailed for nearly 15 years

Crime family's leader Paul Whitney also moaned when police raided his home on his birthday

The Canberra Times

'Quick fix': Man who tried to receive imported cocaine for 'Pooh' wanted 'easy way out'

The Gordon man told police he had been promised cash to accept a drug delivery.

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Reuters

Mexican cartels and EU criminals cooperate to smuggle drugs to Europe and beyond-report

Mexican cartels and criminal groups in the European Union work together to traffic methamphetamine and cocaine from Latin America to Europe, according to a report published on Wednesday by Europol and the U.S Drug Enforcement Administration.

Daily Mirror

Two young mums caught with £123,000 of cocaine while getting ready for lunch

Courtney Larkin and Ellie Mortin were caught getting "dolled up" before going out to meet friends for lunch while also filling ALDI bags with a huge quantity of cocaine at the same time

Dublin Live

Large amount of cocaine and drug paraphernalia seized after raid in north Dublin

Gardai conducted a search as part of Operation Tara at a property in north Dublin and they also seized bagging equipment and other items of drug paraphernalia

Irish Mirror

Gardaí swoop on house in Coolock and find €200k worth of cocaine

No arrests have yet been made

Manchester Evening News

Dealer caught red-handed - after trying to sell drugs to police

"Essentially, you are peddling misery and death.”

Daily Record

Police burst open flat to find woman packing cocaine in 'evidential paradise'

Courtney Larkin was caught with huge amounts of the class A drug, thought to be worth over £100,000.

Chronicle Live

Bumbling duo sentenced after selling cocaine to undercover police in Newcastle

Two unsuspecting drug dealers have been given their sentences after selling drugs to plain-clothed police officers

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