Hong Kong’s prison service has withdrawn an anti-drug video featuring a group of beautiful AI-generated virtual K-pop girls from social media and revised it after internet users said it resembled a promotion campaign for illegal substances. The Correctional Services Department uploaded the controversial video, titled “Obsession: The Sugar-Coated Trap”, to its social media platforms on…
ISTANBUL Istanbul prosecutors launched a drug investigation targeting 19 celebrities, who were detained by narcotics teams for questioning and blood samples on suspicions of using narcotics. The operation, directed by the Istanbul Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office, saw the suspects transported to the Provincial Gendarmerie Command for statements and testing. The full list of those detained…
The U.S. Coast Guard says it seized over $220 million worth of cocaine in multiple recent interceptions of alleged drug boats. At least one operation apparently left a small vessel burning. The crew of the USCG Cutter Midgett intercepted four different alleged drug-smuggling vessels off the coasts of Mexico, Central America and South America during…
A former correctional officer, a former inmate at a South Carolina prison and the ex-inmate’s brother have been arrested and charged with running a widespread operation to smuggle drugs into over a dozen state prisons. The trio allegedly used packages “presented as containing books” to smuggle hundreds of strips containing synthetic cannabinoids and Suboxone into…
The United States will keep assets positioned in the Caribbean and strike anyone “trafficking in those waters who we know is a designated narco terrorist,” Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth said Wednesday morning, a day after President Donald Trump said the U.S. military had attacked and destroyed a drug-carrying vessel in the region. Mr. Trump…