WASHINGTON - 28 pounds of cocaine were discovered hidden inside packages of hot cocoa at Washington Dulles International ...

STERLING, Va. — Criminals busted at Washington Dulles International Airport gave new meaning to the phrase "cocoa powder." ...

Over 28 pounds of the illegal substance was found stashed within a confectionary shipment bound for Northern Virginia.

STERLING, Va. (DC News Now) — Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers at Washington Dulles International Airport were ...

Today coca leaves are harvested as an essential ingredient of the illegal, but highly lucrative, production of cocaine. Despite the plant’s role in so much violence and political instability ...

a brick of dried powder that is just one stop short of pure cocaine. Small amounts of coca are legal for the indigenous who consider it a sacred plant. Wandering the countryside, a policeman is ...

Accounting for $1.5 billion in 2020, the cocaine drug market is the second largest illegal drug market in the world. It comes ...

A soldier for the military police in Honduras is burning a pile of recently destroyed coca plants, the main ingredient in cocaine. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the ...

In 2023, the report put the country’s cocaine production potential at a historic high. Agricultural and technological advancements have allowed farmers to increase the yield of each coca plant.

Cocaine is smuggled to the US a variety of ... At one point the FARC controlled 70% of Colombia's coca crops. Coca plants grow just two months a year amid the lush greenery of the Colombian ...

In requesting the study of the coca plant at the U.N., President Luis Arce ... in Bolivia doubled from 2006 to 2021, illicit cocaine production also surged by 175%. As of 2022, the U.N. said ...

Peru has temporarily halted the eradication of coca plants used to make cocaine as it works to redesign its anti-drug programs, the country's interior ministry announced this week. News of the ...