Man caught with £90k cannabis in suitcase at Edinburgh airport jailed

A drug courier who was caught attempting to smuggle close to £100,000 of cannabis through Edinburgh Airport has been jailed.
KRQE Blogs

Smugglers turn to car batteries to hide drugs across the border

SAN DIEGO (Border Report) — The U.S. Border Patrol’s San Diego Sector has discovered smugglers are hiding illicit drugs inside car batteries after intercepting multiple loads of narcotics concealed in ...
ABC 10 News

CBP: Drug smuggling attempts increase near US-Mexico border using car batteries

SAN DIEGO (CNS) - The U.S. Border Patrol San Diego Sector Monday announced an increase in drug smuggling attempts using car batteries. Over the past couple months, border officers have intercepted ...
SFGate

US touts collaborative plan to tackle Mexico’s drug cartels – but initiative is met with denial and mistrust south of the border

(THE CONVERSATION) A new plan to dismantle cartel-run drug-smuggling corridors along the U.S. southern border was announced by the U.S. administration in mid-August 2025 to great fanfare. The problem?
USA Today

Feds wasted millions on tech to detect fentanyl at the border, report finds

The federal agency tasked with intercepting illegal drugs at the border botched the rollout of technology designed to do just that, according to a federal watchdog. Investigators say U.S. Customs and ...