By Whitt Steineker, Slates C. Veazey, J. Hunter Robinson & Nathan P. Viebrock on December 5, 2024 Part of the reason we started a Cannabis Industry team at a Southeastern-based law firm before any Southeastern state had adopted a marijuana program was because we had a hunch that the expansion of cannabis would eventually make its way to our neck of the woods. And […]

SEVEN Venezuelan men convicted of trafficking 72.56 kilogrammes of cocaine after they were held in the waters off the north coast of Trinidad by the Coast Guard in 2016 have been sentenced to 16 years and five months. The seven were among eight Venezuelans held, but one died before the case went to trial in […]

A young man who worked at an illegal magic mushroom store in Cambridge has avoided a criminal record. The 24-year-old was a clerk at FunGuyz on King Street East when undercover officers bought mushrooms at the store and also when police raided it. The Cambridge man pleaded guilty Monday to possession of psilocybin for the […]

A U.S. Coast Guard cutter crew on Monday unloaded over 16,000 pounds of cocaine at Port Everglades in Fort Lauderdale that the agency says is worth hundreds of millions of dollars on the street. The contraband was delivered on board the Cutter Hamilton, a Charleston, South Carolina-based ship that is part of Interagency Task Force-South, […]

Serbian and German police broke a suspected cocaine smuggling ring based in both countries and made 10 arrests, the interior ministry in Belgrade said on Wednesday. Officers carried out synchronised raids at 27 locations in Germany’s western city of Wiesbaden, Belgrade and another Serbian town, a ministry statement said. Seven people were arrested in Germany […]

Authorities have successfully intercepted a drug trafficking attempt at the Port of Santo Domingo, seizing four packages of what is suspected to be cocaine. The National Drug Control Directorate (DNCD), working in collaboration with the Specialized Port Security Corps and state intelligence agencies, discovered the illicit cargo on a vessel that recently arrived from Miami, […]