LAGOS AUGUST 13TH (NEWSRNAGERS)-Ecuadorian authorities seized a half-ton of cocaine hidden in a truck near the border with Colombia whose packages were marked with the names of soccer stars Erling Haaland and Lionel Messi. The Attorney General’s Office said agents found 370 blocks of cocaine inside a modified compartment of the vehicle in Tulcán, in…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A Colombian lower-division league match descended into chaos on Wednesday after Real Alianza Cataquera midfielder, Javier Bolívar slapped female referee Vanessa Ceballos moments after being shown a red card. In a video posted on X by one of Mexico City’s leading daily newspapers, La Jornada, the incident occurred when Ceballos moved to…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Six so-called “narco subs” stuffed with cocaine were captured in a Colombian-led international anti-drug operation, authorities in the Latin American nation said Wednesday, as part of a huge global bust. The mission, involving 62 countries, seized more than 1,400 metric tons of drugs – mostly marijuana – between October 1 and November…
LAGOS JANUARY 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Some 21 bricks of cocaine hidden in banana shipments ended up at grocery shops in Canada following a bungled drug-trafficking operation, authorities have confirmed. A local store owner in Kelowna, a small town in Central Okanagan, British Columbia province, alerted authorities after finding 12 packages of what appeared to be cocaine among…
