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drug smuggling
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Two South African Engineers Imprisoned In Equatorial Guinea Are Trying To Appeal Their Shocking Sentence
12 Jul 2023 by Tayla / No Comments
The two South African engineers – Frederic Potgieter (53) from George and Peter Huxham (55) from Langebaan – are still imprisoned in Equatorial Guinea and are trying to appeal their drug smuggling conviction.
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South African Innovator Is Re-Inventing The Lightbulb
13 Jun 2023 by Heinrich / No Comments
Capetonian David Harte, 64, has invented and patented a light bulb socket able to mechanically and electrically interface both screw-type and bayonet-type light bulbs as well as downlight-type light bulbs.
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Johnny Depp Is Back On The Screen In This New Series [Video]
09 Jun 2022 by Paula / No Comments
Dissolute actor Johnny Depp will be returning to our screens, just weeks after a jury found in his favour.
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Italian Cocaine Mafia Clan Has Higher Turnover Than McDonald’s And Deutsche Bank Combined
20 Sep 2021 by Tayla / No Comments
British gangs are now collaborating with international crime groups, like Italy’s powerful ‘Ndrangheta mafia clan, which controls much of Europe’s cocaine trade.
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West Coast Cocaine Smugglers’ Plans On Hold
17 May 2021 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
One of South Africa’s biggest drug busts, which took place in March along the West Coast, has seen three Bulgarian nationals sentenced.
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They Found Almost 2 000kg Of Drugs In A Secret US-Mexico Tunnel
02 Apr 2020 by Carrie / No Comments
US authorities have uncovered another border tunnel between America and Mexico, and this one contained a massive drug haul.
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Railway And Elevator – The Longest Drug Tunnel They’ve Ever Seen [Video]
30 Jan 2020 by Carrie / No Comments
US authorities have found what they say is the longest drug-smuggling tunnel ever discovered on the south-west border of Mexico.
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SA Woman Arrested Smuggling Drugs Into Mauritius – Four-Year-Old Returns With No Mum
10 Oct 2019 by Carrie / No Comments
A four-year-old boy who was with his mom when she was caught smuggling drugs into Mauritius has been returned to South Africa.
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Radical Footage Of Criminals Dumping Bags Of Cocaine During High-Speed Boat Chase [Video]
29 Jul 2019 by Carrie / No Comments
The US Coast Guard chased down a boat crew of drug smugglers, who decided it wasn’t worth holding on to the evidence.
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UK Gangs Are Getting Very Creative With Their Drug Smuggling Efforts [Images]
26 Mar 2019 by Carrie / No Comments
Smuggling drugs into prison is fraught with danger, and in the past gangs have used pigeons and tennis balls. Now they’re branching out.
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How To Become An International Cocaine Trafficker, From An Old Pro [Video]
13 Mar 2019 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
If you’re thinking of getting into the drug trafficking game, Posh Pete’s story should be of interest to you. I think we can all learn some lessons here.
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Salt And GPS – Here’s How The Italians Are Catching Cocaine Traffickers
01 Feb 2019 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Italian police are pretty chuffed with their latest massive cocaine bust, where they managed to get one over the smugglers with some crafty work.
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They’re Nailing Drug Mules At OR Tambo Now
14 Jan 2019 by Carrie / 1 Comment
The SAPS have arrested three people in separate incidents of alleged drug smuggling at OR Tambo International Airport.
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Wednesday Morning Spice
29 Aug 2018 by Kiernan / No Comments
Death penalty for SA drug trafficker. Trump goes after Google. Malema says Msimanga next. New 9/11 conspiracy. Life in Constantia vs Camps Bay. Chocapocalypse. Aretha’s ‘diva’ casket. Lady Gaga nude.
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Drug Smugglers Are Getting Very Creative This World Cup [Images+Videos]
26 Jun 2018 by Kiernan / No Comments
The World Cup is big business right around the world, and even drug smugglers are looking for some creative ways to cash in.
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“Cocaine Babe” Is One Of The Worst Drug Smugglers Ever
20 Apr 2018 by Sloane Hunter / No Comments
If you were offered a whopping amount of money to act as a drug-smuggler’s decoy, would you take it? Don’t – that’s what got the cocaine babes into trouble.
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Pop Quiz – How Many Parcels Of Cocaine Did This Cape Drug Mule Manage To Swallow?
05 Oct 2017 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Cocaine is a helluva drug, and smuggling it can be a very lucrative business. Unless you’re caught trying to re-enter the country with a stomach full of it.
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Two Women In Their 20s Document Holiday Cruise On Instagram – Secretly Smuggling R330 Million Of Cocaine
01 Sep 2016 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
There’s nothing strange about two young ladies enjoying the good life aboard a cruise ship, but how they paid for it all is somewhat out the box.
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Phenomenal Footage Shows Inside Mexico / California Drug Tunnel Covered By Simple Bin [Video]
21 Apr 2016 by Kiernan / No Comments
There’s a stretch of the U.S – Mexican border that is known for its illicit tunnels, although this one might just take the cake.
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Six Or Stix – South Africa’s Latest Drug Mule Used A Cricket Kit To Smuggle Heroin
22 Apr 2015 by Kiernan / No Comments
Cricket, the gentlemen’s game that still calls the breaks between sessions ‘lunch’ and ‘tea’. This woman didn’t exactly uphold the virtues of the game though.
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Yoh! R1.2 Billion Cocaine Bust On Caribbean Yacht
20 Apr 2015 by Kiernan / No Comments
Sailing around the Caribbean on a yacht sounds like a pretty good time, but when you are carrying over two tonnes of cocaine on board things can go south very quickly.
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Whoah! The Costa Concordia Was Carrying A “Massive” Load Of Mafia Cocaine
01 Apr 2015 by Kiernan / No Comments
The tragic Costa Concordia crash of 2012 has seen the captain found guilty of a handful of crimes. Now it seems someone else on the boat was up to no good.
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Couple Win Holiday Trip – Become Drug Mules
28 Oct 2013 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Have you ever watched the program ‘Border Security: Australia’? If you have, you’ll know that Australian border-control officials are some of the toughest in the business, taking no kak from no one. However, one unwitting elderly couple managed to slip through the system, after it emerged that their bags had been lined with methamphetamine while they were away in Canada.
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British Teens Jailed In Peru For Smuggling Cocaine Worth R23 Million [Video]
13 Aug 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Two British girls are being held in a Peruvian jail on suspicion of drug smuggling. Police reportedly found 11kg’s of cocaine in their luggage, valued at R23 million.
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When Drug Smugglers Take The Direct Approach: Presenting The Marijuana Cannon
28 Feb 2013 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
I wonder how high they were when they thought of this. Police were elated when they found a cannon that had been customised in order to fire packets of marijuana across the border into California from the city of Mexicali. The plastic pipe and metal tank was attached to a old car engine which it […]
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Images Released Of Arrested South African Drug Smuggler In Indonesia [PICS]
15 Oct 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
Last week, it was reported that another South African had been arrested abroad for trying to smuggle drugs into another country. Kathlyn Dunn (28) was arrested last week at Lombok International Airport after arriving on a flight from Singapore. Her goal was to carry 2,6kg of methamphetamine, with a street value of R4,4m into the Indonesian resort island of Lombok.
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SA Man Is Longest-Serving Foreigner In ‘Bangkok Hilton’: Shani Krebs Finally On His Way Home
08 Mar 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 16 Comments
Shani Krebs has been living in a (reportedly revolting) maximum security Thai prison called Bang Kwang Central – lovingly referred to by inmates as the ‘Bangkok Hilton’ – since before South Africa became a democracy. Krebs is the longest-serving farang or foreigner in the institution, for which he’s earned a rather tragic reputation. He’s at last been released and will soon return to the ‘new’ SA.
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Another South African Caught Smuggling Cocaine
30 Jan 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 6 Comments
Barely a month after Nolubabalo Nobanda made international headlines for trying to bring cocaine into Thailand via her dreadlocks, another South African has been caught smuggling drugs. Patience Monkei-Khame was arrested over the weekend in Malawi, after four kilograms of nose candy was found hidden in a baby pram she was pushing.
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