Drug Offences

The pair, now aged 19, were sentenced with 18 months and two years in prison respectively.

Police say the was pensioner driving a truck between Adelaide and Newcastle while carrying drugs with a street value of $720,000.

An Australian self-styled Islamic preacher jailed on drug charges will not be released on parole because of his extensive correspondence with convicted terrorists while in prison.

Queensland man James Lake-Kusviandy Blee is on trial over a cocaine shipment into Newcastle.

The indictment is a significant escalation of US anti-cartel action that is likely to increase tensions between the United States and Mexico.

Istanbul was once the hideout of choice for Australian crooks. Now a Sydney gangster's legal challenge has revealed how it all unravelled for the "Aussie Cartel". 

A man and woman in their 20s have appeared in court after allegedly being found with 33 kilograms of methylamphetamine.

A truck driver who suffered an epileptic seizure has been deemed not at fault for a Sunshine Coast crash that killed a three-year-old girl.

Barry James Calverley's lawyers argued he was an innocent drug mule who naively and gullibly trusted a story about why he needed to bring the bed to Australia.

Police allege the Tweed Heads man attempted to smuggle 200 kilograms of cocaine into Australia on a catamaran.

A New South Wales man has faced court after allegedly attempting to import 200 kilograms of cocaine into Australia.

Two men have told Foreign Correspondent how they were unwittingly drawn into Fiji's largest-ever meth importation.

Police say the bomb squad has now safely removed chemicals from the suburban Adelaide home of a 55-year-old man who has been charged with explosives offences, but say the matter is not terror-related.

A 53-year-old Kalgoorlie man is released on bail after the seizure of more than 350 cannabis plants from a property WA Police allege had been converted for the purpose of growing hydroponic cannabis.

A truck driver has been charged with drug driving over a crash that killed a three-year-old girl and critically injured her one-year-old sister.

A BOSCAR report finds NSW Police disproportionately used "discretion" to reject eligible low-level drug offenders from a diversion program — especially Aboriginal people.

Jayvee Sangha admits to running a "stash house" that helped supply the famous Friends star ketamine in the months before his death.

A Canberra man is jailed for his part in an illegal drug ring which operated as an online pharmacy, distributing steroids and prescription drugs across the country.

Police have charged nine men over a scheme to allegedly smuggle tonnes of cocaine into Victoria by sea.

A country footballer who "became complacent" and trafficked more than $120,000 of drugs will face the County Court after pleading guilty to all charges.