By Clare Nuttall in Glasgow Over the past two decades, organised crime groups from the Western Balkans have firmly embedded ...

The Albanian mafia has expanded its presence in Ecuador in recent years, drawn by key trafficking routes through the country, and it now controls much of the cocaine flow from South America to Europe.

José Adolfo Macías Villamar — known as "Fito" — has led Los Choneros and its "network of assassins and drug and weapon ...

The method of smuggling involves using so-called "mother ships" to transport the drugs from South America. Once the vessels are in British waters, the packages are dropped into the sea ...

(CBS12) — A Colombian drug kingpin who went by kid-friendly ... Vente Ocoro admitted he ran an organization that moved cocaine from South America into Central America and Mexico, handling ...

Despite being wanted by European authorities, a billionaire cocaine trafficker is seen in videos with political elites in Sierra Leone. A report on the shifting dynamics of global drug trafficking.

South American drug gangs are smuggling large amounts of cocaine into the UK in waterproof parcels fitted with trackers.

Ahead of the presidential runoff on Sunday, here are five key facts about Ecuador, previously among South America's most stable nations, now one of its most violent due to a ...

Three men face federal charges after an undercover agent bought 5,000 fentanyl pills, and search warrants turned up another 9 ...

The drugs, which authorities valued at more than $500 million, were intercepted during 14 separate interdictions of smuggling vessels off the coasts of Mexico, Central America and South America ...