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It comes after the country’s premier, Andrew Fahie, appeared in a US court after being arrested on drug trafficking charges.
Juan Orlando Hernandez appeared in a New York federal court via video-link after he was brought to the United States on Thursday.
Juan Orlando Hernandez risks spending the rest of his life in prison if convicted.
Nagaenthran K. Dharmalingam was arrested in 2009 for trafficking heroin into the city-state.
President Ivan Duque likened the arrest of Dairo Antonio Usuga to Pablo Escobar’s capture three decades ago.
A witness claims the president said “they’d transport so much cocaine into the US they’d shove the drugs up the noses of the gringos.”
The investigation involved gardaí, as well as police forces and custom services in Australia and New Zealand.
Thomas Maher pleaded guilty to a string of offences at Liverpool Crown Court.
The 398kg of heroin was bound for Antwerp in Belgium.
Separately, a large quantity of cannabis herb with an approximate street value of €800,000 was seized.
Sami Panico is in the spotlight for all the wrong reasons.
The gang is suspected of trafficking drugs to Australia and then laundering the proceeds back to Ireland.
Artur Celmer is the subject of three separate extradition warrants from his native country (where he claims he could not get a fair trial) for alleged drug trafficking.
A European report has assessed the popularity of darknet sites and the response of enforcement agencies to shut them down.
A number of men have contracts on their heads.
The 46-year-old former goalkeeper denies the allegations.
Gardaí discovered cannabis resin with an approximate street value of €60,000 and cocaine with an approximate street value of €70,000.
The elaborate 14-month scheme involved bogus “patients” and fake paramedic costumes.
They are being held in two Garda stations.
The seizure was made after searches at two premises in Dublin’s city centre today.
Gardaí said the search yesterday was part of an ongoing operation in Cork.
A total of 120 kg of cannabis herb was seized in Coolock with an estimated street value of €2.5 million.
Schapelle Corby has always insisted the 4.1 kg of marijuana found in her body board bag was planted there.
Michaella McCollum and Melissa Reid were caught with cocaine hidden in their luggage.
Gardaí seized 1,800 cannabis plants at a premises in an industrial estate yesterday.
Michaella McCollum Connolly’s lawyer also outlined the chain of events that led to her arrest.
Michaella will be moved to a permanent jail in the next 24 hours, her solicitor says, but prisons in Peru are rife with TB and HIV.
Toilet roll, Pringles, Oreos and a sports bra, were among some of the items requested as well as stamps and envelopes to write letters home.
Four men have been arrested after the drugs were uncovered in three separate operations this afternoon. A large quantity of cash was also seized.
The pair were arrested two weeks ago at Lima’s international airport with 11 kilograms of cocaine.
Local media in Peru are reporting that the Irish and British women were recruited by a Lima-based drug trafficking ring.
Connolly’s lawyer Peter Madden said the Tyrone woman would be protesting her innocence.
He visited his sister at the national police anti-drug headquarters where Michaella and her companion Melissa Reid are being held.
“I was offered to do a trip and offered €10,000 for a flight over to Benalmadena with 1kg,” said Lee.
In a video posted last night, Michaella says that she is not being given enough to drink.
A quantity of cannabis worth €400,000 was also seized during a search in Lucan last night.
A 34-year-old man was arrested at the scene following the seizure in Navan over the weekend.
An Indonesian court has sentenced Lindsay Sandiford, 56, to death for smuggling cocaine worth $2.5 million into the resort island of Bali.
Gardaí have been carrying out a major investigation into organised crime across the country.
Planned searches have been taking place across Dublin as part of the investigation into drug trafficking, firearms offenses and money laundering.
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