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Prison officer who smuggled class A drugs into jail handed six-year stretch behind bars

Heather McKenzie, 31, ferried cocaine and mobile phones into the prison where she worked

Wales Online

EncroChat gang with nicknames 'Shinyegg' and 'Buttermoon' snared after moving over £1 million worth of drugs

Cocaine, cannabis, weapons, more than £100,000 cash and a significant amount of crypto-currency was recovered

Manchester Evening News

Prison officer who smuggled drugs into jail sentenced to six years behind bars

Heather McKenzie, 31, ferried cocaine and mobile phones into HMP Shotts in North Lanarkshire.

The Independent UK

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Evening Standard

Bid to seize fugitive cage fighter's ill-gotten gains from drug ring while he's on the run

Darren Towler was sentenced to 24 years in prison for running a cocaine operation in his absence

Chronicle Live

Scots prison officer who befriended knife killer jailed for smuggling drugs behind bars

Heather McKenzie secretly ferried cocaine and mobile phones into Shotts Prison, in Lanarkshire, but was rumbled after jail chiefs became suspicious about the level of drugs found in cells.

Daily Record

Judge warns County Lines drug dealer he should thank his barrister as he avoids jail

The court heard Christopher Lambert was "pressured" into selling heroin and crack cocaine

Liverpool Echo

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Court shown timeline of cocaine divers' journey from Darwin to Newcastle

The documents allege that Bruno Borges-Martins, along with another specialist diver from Brazil, were smuggled into Darwin by James Blake Blee, who is also facing a manslaughter charge in relation to Borges-Martins's death.

ABC News

'America Has Lost the War on Drugs,' The New York Times Says, but Should Keep Fighting It Anyway

The paper pushes modest reforms while endorsing continued criminalization.

Reason

Drug dealers' empire rumbled after secret tiny prison phone uncovered

Ashley Blackett, 35, and then-girlfriend Jamey-Leigh Brook-Parkinson spoke about 'building our empire'

Manchester Evening News

Get ready for ‘Cocaine Bear’ by watching these 5 bear horror films

“Cocaine Bear” is rampaging toward a theater near you.

Tribune News Service

$Coatbridge dad fractured man's eye socket in 'random' stag do attack in Liverpool pub$

Coatbridge dad fractured man's eye socket in 'random' stag do attack in Liverpool pub

Scott Carter, 32, was on a stag do and under the influence of cocaine and alcohol when he attacked his victim Aaron Suleman in the early hours of the morning in a Liverpool pub.

Glasgow Live

Genaro García Luna: Mexico’s ex-security minister convicted of bribes and drug smuggling

Prosecutors say El Chapo’s cartel couldn’t have built a “global cocaine empire” without García Luna

Evening Standard

Mexico’s former public security chief convicted in US drug case

Genaro Garcia Luna was found guilty of accepting millions of dollars in bribes from drug-trafficking cartels in Mexico.

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Mexico's former public security head is convicted in the U.S. of taking cartel bribes

García Luna headed Mexico's federal police and became the country's top public safety official between 2006 and 2012. He was convicted of taking large bribes from drug cartels.

The Independent UK

'Cocaine Bear' is here to strike a blow to staid Hollywood

Yes, “Cocaine Bear” is a real movie

Liverpool Echo

Drug dealer freed from prison on day release didn't go back for six months

Inmate said he failed to return after racking up cocaine debt and being pressured into becoming smuggler

ABC News

Queensland is to relax its drug laws, even for ice and heroin. How could it affect you?

The state government wants to expand its diversion program to personal quantities of anything from cocaine to meth.

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Chronicle Live

Drugs gang supplier and courier jailed for their part in major class A drugs conspiracy

Christopher Windmill, 47, was sentenced for supplying Liam Pow and his drugs-ring with Class A substances

Daily Record

Scots dad high on booze and cocaine fractured stranger's eye socket on stag do

The 32-year-old, from Coatbridge, hit his victim so hard that the man's head smashed into a metal pole behind him causing him to lose consciousness.

Dublin Live

Watch trailer for new documentary series Dublin Narcos which explores rise 90s drug trade

Heroin, ecstasy and cocaine use all sky rocketed in the 90s as Ireland's economy improved

ABC News

Queensland to relax drug laws, implement three-strike rule for people carrying small amounts of drugs for personal use

Anyone caught carrying small quantities of illicit substances like heroin, cocaine or ice, will be given three chances before facing a criminal charge.

Evening Standard

Cocaine haul worth £35m set for London seized by Met Police on boat off Sussex coast

Three men have been charged over the ‘huge, significant’ shipment

Liverpool Echo

Woman funded life of Louis Vuitton handbags and foreign holidays by selling drugs

Danielle Stafford tried to claim she was looking after large amounts of cash for a Liverpool man

Glasgow Live

Glasgow truck driver died in crash horror hours after taking cocaine

A Fatal Accident Inquiry into the death of David Provan was told the 58-year-old died at the scene after ploughing into a stationary lorry carrying a static caravan.

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