As South Korea grapples with increasing synthetic drug smuggling cases from China, it has chosen to ally itself with the U.S.-led Global Coalition to Address Synthetic Drug Threats. The move is widely seen as a strategy to pressure Beijing to combat the rising tide of synthetic drug trafficking. South Korean police recently unveiled a major drug…
South Korea Joins US-Led Coalition Against Synthetic Drugs Amid Rising Concerns Over Drug Trafficking from China
July 18, 2023
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Over Half of All Adults Arrested in San Diego in 2022 Tested Positive for Meth
June 23, 2023
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SAN DIEGO—More than half of all adults arrested in the San Diego region in 2022 tested positive for methamphetamine, according to a report released on June 23 by the San Diego Association of Governments (SANDAG). According to the findings, the positive rate of meth use in 2022 was 55 percent for female arrestees and 52…
BC Border Agents Find 6,300 Kg of Meth, Including Largest Single Seizure to Date
The Canada Border Services Agency says it has confiscated more than 6,300 kilograms of methamphetamine in British Columbia over the last six months, including the largest ever single seizure of the drug. The agency says the drugs were found in four Metro Vancouver seizures in jugs labelled as canola oil and destined for export to…
LA Nonprofit Giving Meth Pipes to Homeless Sparks Debate Over ‘Harm Reduction’ Approach
May 25, 2023
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After a video of a Los Angeles nonprofit handing out meth pipes to homeless addicts in downtown Los Angeles went viral earlier this month, some say the so-called “harm reduction model” of providing drug equipment and a supervised place to use is saving lives, while others say it’s harmful and only exacerbating the city’s and…
Plane Loaded With Drugs ‘Tried to Fly Under the Radar’
Five men are accused of a daring low-altitude flight to import $15 million (US$10 million) worth of methamphetamine from Papua New Guinea (PNG) after they were intercepted in rural Queensland. The drugs allegedly arrived on a so-called black flight, where a light aircraft flies under the radar or turns off monitoring systems to avoid detection….
Police Thwart Attempts to Smuggle $1 Billion Worth of Cocaine Into Australia
An international covert operation has intercepted a record of 2.4 tonnes of cocaine, estimated to be worth A$1 billion ($677 million), from entering Western Australia in what is believed to be the nation’s biggest drug bust. The Western Australian (WA) Police Force said on Saturday that it has arrested 12 individuals, including an American, who…
Ex-TSA Officer Gets Nearly 6 Years in Prison in LAX Drug Case
December 9, 2022
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LOS ANGELES—A former Transportation Security Administration (TSA) officer was sentenced Dec. 9 to 70 months in federal prison for smuggling what he believed was meth through Los Angeles International Airport in exchange for $8,000. Michael Williams, 39, of Hawthorne, pleaded guilty in June to one federal count of attempting to distribute methamphetamine. Williams was arrested…
Traffickers Using Amazon to Ship Meth to Australia
November 17, 2022
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Methamphetamine has been discovered stashed away in decorative stones awaiting shipment to Australia from Amazon’s San Diego hub. The decorative stones, normally used for gardens and model railways, was concealed in packaging labelled “ornamental stones,” according to U.S. federal agents. Amazon and Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) found at least five Amazon vendor accounts using the…
Man Who Hid Girlfriend’s Dead Body Under a Bunk Bed After Gruesome Murder Given Life Sentence
A 50-year-old unemployed male, Law Wai-man, was charged with killing his 34-year-old girlfriend, Sony Lau Lai-chi, who he was living with at the time in Po Kin House, Po Lam Estate, Tseung Kwan O in Hong Kong in 2019. Law subsequently hid Sony Lau’s body under a bunk bed after beating and killing her. Law…
HK Customs Makes Biggest Methamphetamine Trafficking Haul
Hong Kong customs seized the biggest haul of trafficked methamphetamine in Hong Kong’s history on October 23. An amount of 1.8 metric tons (2 tons) of suspected high-purity liquid methamphetamine was concealed in a coconut water cargo shipment from Mexico. The market value is estimated to be about HK$1.1 billion (approx. US$140 million). It is…
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