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How Syria’s Assad propped up the Captagon drug trade
How Syria's Assad propped up the Captagon drug trade - CBS News Watch CBS News Analysts estimate Bashar al-Assad's regime raked in $5 billion per year from the Captagon drug…
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Police across the U.S. are illegally selling firearms, CBS News investigation finds
Police across the U.S. are illegally selling firearms, CBS News investigation finds - CBS News Watch CBS News A CBS News investigation found dozens of law enforcement leaders buying and…
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Law enforcement raises warning over so-called pink cocaine
Law enforcement raises warning over so-called pink cocaine - CBS News Watch CBS News Law enforcement is raising alarm bells over a drug called pink cocaine. It doesn't actually contain…
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Arizona towns along southern border dealing with drug smuggling
Arizona towns along southern border dealing with drug smuggling - CBS News Watch CBS News CBS News' Omar Villafranca has been traveling all week from Texas to California along the…
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Over 6 million pills seized, nearly 50 suspects arrested in major drug smuggling bust in Europe
European police have swooped on a continent-wide gang that smuggled millions of prescription medication pills to countries like Finland and Norway, the EU's judicial agency said on Friday.Forty-seven suspects were…
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Ex-Canadian Olympic Snowboarder Charged With Running Drug Trafficking Ring
Former Canadian Olympic snowboarder Ryan James Wedding has been charged with running a drug trafficking ring through North America, authorities said Thursday.Wedding, a 43-year-old Canadian citizen who was living in…
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Ex-Mexican Security Chief Faces Life Sentence in U.S. Drug Trafficking Case
Mexico's former public security chief is facing a life sentence in a U.S. court after being convicted of taking bribes to aid drug traffickers.Genaro García Luna, 56, was found guilty…
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Man accused of selling fake pills throughout U.S., running operation out of a garage turned “lab” in Connecticut
In a nondescript garage in Connecticut, a New Haven man manufactured hundreds of thousands of counterfeit pills containing methamphetamine, a powerful opioid and other illicit drugs that he shipped around…
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Powerful Mexican Drug Cartel Leader to Be Arraigned in New York
The leader of one of Mexico's most powerful drug cartels is set to be summoned to court by U.S. prosecutors today.Ismael 'El Mayo' Zambada will be arraigned in New York,…
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Notorious drug lord and former wrestler known as Bulgaria’s “cocaine king” surrenders after years on the run
Fugitive Bulgarian drug lord Evelin Banev, wanted in several European countries, surrendered to law enforcement authorities early Monday, the interior ministry said.The former wrestler — dubbed Bulgaria's "cocaine king" —…