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Hyderabad: In less than two weeks, drugs — mostly cocaine and heroin — worth over Rs 100 crore have been seized at the Rajiv Gandhi International Airport. Seizure of heroin worth nearly Rs 12 crore on Wednesday was the latest, while cocaine worth Rs 80 crore was seized on May 1 and cocaine worth over […]
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Hyderabad: In a major seizure, eight kilograms of cocaine, said to be worth Rs.80 crore in the market, was seized from two foreign nationals by the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) at the Rajiv Gandhi International Airport in a late night operation on Sunday. Two air passengers, a male Tanzanian national, travelling from Cape Town […]
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Hyderabad: A Tanzanian national, who allegedly swallowed 79 cocaine capsules in a bid to smuggle the drug into the country was arrested by the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence on Tuesday. Officials seized 1157 grams of cocaine, valued at Rs.11.57 crore, from the 44-year-old man, who arrived at the Rajiv Gandhi International Airport from Johannesburg via […]
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Hyderabad: Striking hard at the organized drug syndicates centered around the pubs, the Hyderabad police late on Saturday night raided a pub – where one could enter only after ‘keying a code’ – at Banjara Hills late and arrested two persons apart from seizing what is suspected to be cocaine packets. More than 100 persons, […]
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Hyderabad: Chukwu Ogbonna David alias Tony, who is being questioned by the Punjagutta police in connection with drug trafficking case, used a network of couriers, including women to supply cocaine to his clients. A woman, from Mumbai also served as an agent on a few instances for Tony and supplied the drug to customers. The […]
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Hyderabad: The Hyderabad Police are now in the process of disseminating the voluminous data of phone conservations and Whatsapp chats of the eight persons including Chukwu Ogbonna David alias Tony, who were arrested last week in connection with the recently busted international drug racket. Tony, a Nigerian, was supplying cocaine after sourcing it from African […]
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Hyderabad: In one of the biggest hauls in recent times, the Madhapur SOT nabbed three persons in connection with drug peddling and possession here on Thursday. Officials seized 183 grams Cocaine , 44 Ecstasy tablets and other material worth Rs.26.2 lakh. The arrested persons are Mohd.Ashraf, drug peddler and consumers , Sravan Kumar and Charan […]
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Berlin: A study has found that a molecular switch influences addiction behaviour and determines how strong the response to addictive drugs is. The research was published in the ‘EMBO Reports Journal’. A research team at Heidelberg University and the Sorbonne University in Paris (France) made the discovery in mice treated with ,. The researchers led […]
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Seventeen grams of cocaine, eight grams of MDMA, 73 ecstasy pills and 15 grams of hashish were seized
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Acting on a tip off, Narayanguda police caught Joseph Tagoe alias Joe, resident of Rajmohalla in Narayanguda, and a native of Ghana and seized 30 grams of cocaine, a mobile phone and Rs 30,500 cash from him
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Emma Coronel Aispuro, a 31-year-old former beauty queen, was arrested at Dulles International Airport in Virginia and is expected to appear in federal court in Washington.
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Better known as CBD, it's a chemical in the cannabis sativa plant known for its protective effects on the brain and liver.
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Hyderabad: Barely two weeks after he was out on bail after being arrested on charges of selling cocaine, a Ghana national was arrested again on Tuesday on the same charges. According to the police, the Prohibition and Excise department on Tuesday arrested Samuel Smith Nelson, 32, a resident of Golden Enclave Paramount Colony in Tolichowki, […]
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The drug often arrives concealed in cargos of fruit or in the walls of shipping containers, mainly from Brazil, Ecuador and Colombia.