Cocaine Trafficking Tracker

Caribbean and Nigerian Maritime Cases

• 🔥 Puerto Rico Barge Seizure: A stowaway was apprehended on the Crimson Clover barge in San Juan Harbor...

Nigeria's NDLEA is systematically enforcing against maritime cocaine smuggling, fining an Indian crew and Turkish-owned bulker $6 million after...

Stowaway tactics are evolving in Caribbean cocaine trafficking, with a second incident this year in San Juan Harbor. A suspect carrying 524 pounds of...

Sinaloa Cartel reach extended into small-town Martinsburg, West Virginia, where local leader Juan Carlos Suarez-Lugo ran a fentanyl and cocaine...

Nigerian enforcement is tightening its grip on maritime routes, convicting 11 Indian sailors plus their vessel MV Aruna Hulya after 31.5kg of cocaine...

Andrew Pritchard moved $130 million worth of cocaine from the Caribbean to Europe across two decades.

• Began with false-bottom suitcases and decoy...

FBI and DEA agents raided a Texas military base, seizing 6.8 tons of cocaine hidden in army equipment shipments and arresting 31 soldiers allegedly...

West African Maritime Busts

• 🔥 Indian Sailors Convicted: A Nigerian court convicted 11 Indian sailors for smuggling 31.5 kg of cocaine, fining...

Nigeria is combining tough rhetoric with real prosecutions to deter international smuggling networks.

• Marwa's warning: The country is no longer a...

DEA Administrator Terry Cole calls the Trump administration's strategy a 'transformational change,' with agents now fully staffing the U.S.-Mexico...

Organized crime is exploiting vulnerabilities in Mexico's cargo logistics operations, a risk that will intensify with World Cup-related activity accelerating across the country.

A dead man's passport uncovered in a suspected third Ceuta drug-smuggling tunnel points to expanding networks, coinciding with a 300% surge in migrant crossings to Europe via shifting routes.

Dominican authorities working with JIATF-S highlight ongoing maritime interdiction adaptations against cocaine trafficking along regional corridors.

A months-long investigation dismantled a drug trafficking network supplying cocaine to a known criminal gang, highlighting law enforcement's sustained focus on mid-level operations.

• NDLEA secures conviction of 11 Indian sailors for cocaine trafficking aboard a merchant vessel
• Court fines the vessel itself as part of the...

Senegal's offensive has delivered record revenues from cocaine and counterfeit money seizures while shaking up traffickers in the south.

West Africa Cocaine Routes

• 🔥 Liberia Airport Seizure: US$19.2 million cocaine shipment of 198 plates intercepted at Liberia's RIA airport.
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Cartel tunnels running beneath a U.S. Army base were exposed in a pre-dawn FBI & DEA raid, resulting in soldier arrests and seizure of 4.2 tons of...

Gato Farfán forged direct ties between CJNG, Sinaloa, and Ecuador’s aerial smuggling routes, while Carlos Kada seized control of ports, containers,...

The Chapitos faction appears headed for collapse after El Mayo Zambada’s kidnapping and arrest, stripping them of allies, funds, and political...