How a Canadian company's encrypted phones ended up in the hands of criminals worldwide ~tech Article 924 words 9 votes
Mayor of Oslo warns that drug smugglers are increasingly targeting the Norwegian capital as a gateway to Europe as authorities tighten controls on major ports such as Antwerp ~news norway.oslo crime.organized politics belgium.antwerp Article 475 words 7 votes
US arrests Mexican drug lord 'El Mayo' and El Chapo's son in Texas ~news usa.tx mexico crime.organized Article 367 words 25 votes
Rio de Janeiro’s ‘narco-pentecostal’ gangs accused of ordering Catholic churches to close ~humanities religion Article 953 words 11 votes
Mennonites are pious Christians who eschew much of the modern world. But in Mexico even they have not escaped the pull of the drug cartels. ~humanities religion Article 3583 words, published Feb 1 2024 24 votes
Why did a Mexican drug gang kill forty-three students? Text messages hold clues. ~life Article 2752 words 19 votes
Residents of the Danish neighbourhood of Christiania have asked authorities for help shutting down its Pusher Street after a slew of recent gang-related murders ~life Article 348 words 5 votes
Colombian president's son arrested in money-laundering inquiry ~news colombia crime politics Article 350 words 17 votes
Drug cartel violence flares in western Mexico after vigilante leader’s killing ~news mexico crime.organized Article 1213 words 14 votes
Ovidio Guzmán-López: Twenty-nine killed during arrest of El Chapo's son ~news crime.organized usa mexico.culiacan Article 969 words 6 votes
In the past five years, violent gangs from Sweden have increased their presence in Spain, drawn in by the warm weather and high quality of life ~life Article 954 words 9 votes
Billed as the most secure phone on the planet, An0m became a viral sensation in the underworld. There was just one problem for anyone using it for criminal means: it was run by the police ~tech security privacy Article 4002 words 14 votes
An0m: Hundreds arrested in massive global crime sting using messaging app ~news australia crime.organized usa Article 723 words 19 votes
US FBI secretly ran the An0m encrypted messaging platform, yields hundreds of arrests in global sting ~tech Article 249 words 7 votes
Drug cartel now assassinates its enemies with bomb-toting drones ~tech Article 872 words, published Aug 28 2020 17 votes
Telegrass and the next generation of digital black markets - Telegram-based services are facilitating much of the drug sales in Ukraine, Israel, and other countries ~tech Article 2676 words 13 votes
Mexican drug cartels are installing parasite antennas on existing cell towers, layering their criminal communications network on top of the official one and making life dangerous for technicians ~news mexico crime.organized Article 2797 words 11 votes
Coronavirus is dealing a gut punch to the illegal drug trade, paralyzing economies, closing borders, and severing supply chains in China ~finance economics Article 1165 words 4 votes
Drug gang violence in Sweden linked to 60% increase in bomb blasts – last year 257 bomb attacks were reported to police, up from 162 in 2018 ~news sweden crime Article 473 words 4 votes
UPS employees allegedly ran massive drug shipment operation, evading authorities for a decade ~news usa.az.tucson mexico crime.organized Article 1048 words 12 votes
Mexico ambush: How a US Mormon family ended up dead ~life Article 1970 words, published Nov 8 2019 8 votes
Sweden bomb attacks reach unprecedented level as gangs feud – thirty blasts in the past two months and 100 so far this year ~news sweden crime.organized Article 657 words 6 votes
The new drug highway: Pacific islands at centre of cocaine trafficking boom ~news colombia crime.organized Article 1363 words 5 votes
Blow up: How half a tonne of cocaine transformed the life of an island ~life Article 3669 words 10 votes
The Mastermind - He was a brilliant programmer and a vicious cartel boss, who became a prized US government asset ~life Link 3 votes
China executes 'godfather of crystal meth' Cai Dongjia whose village supplied one third of the country's methamphetamine ~news china.guangdong crime.organized Article 237 words 9 votes
The Feds cracked El Chapo's encrypted comms network by flipping his system admin ~tech Article 734 words 10 votes
Homicides in Guatemala. This project explores the challenges and lessons of disaggregating gang-related and drug trafficking-related murders ~science sociology Link 3 votes
Australian woman sentenced to death for drug offences in Malaysia ~news australia crime malaysia Article 335 words 6 votes