A high-ranking Colombian rebel leader has given herself up, the latest defection to suggest that the government's efforts to strike at the group's leadership is succeeding. ...more

May 20, 2008

Federal prosecutors charged 11 people with running an Internet prescription drug operation accused of taking in $77 million and illegally dispensing 44 million doses of medication. ...more

May 11, 2008

POLK CITY – A raid on a marijuana-growing operation Tuesday by a Polk County drug task force led to the arrest of one man. ...more

May 7, 2008

Police acting on an informant's tip found one of Colombia's main cocaine traffickers hiding in a tractor-trailer's secret compartment - just days after police killed his twin brother, authorities said. ...more

May 3, 2008

The South Carolina sheriff's deputy who stopped a car with two University of South Florida students inside in August says he initially suspected the silver Toyota with a Florida tag was involved in drug trafficking. ...more

February 20, 2008

The South Carolina sheriff's deputy who stopped a car with two University of South Florida students in August says he initially suspected the silver Toyota with a Florida tag was involved in drug trafficking. But under questioning by defense attorneys for the two men, Deputy James Lamar Blakely said that when he was told by another deputy that the pair had copies of the Quran, that raised suspicions in his mind of terrorism. ...more

February 19, 2008

In a hearing over motions by the defense to suppress evidence seized in the explosives case of two former USF students, a deputy says he was thinking drug bust when he stopped the two men. ...more

February 19, 2008

Every day, American Airlines Flight 914 takes off from Bogota, Colombia, at 8:20 a.m. and touches down at the Miami airport at noon. In the jet's cargo hold are usually bags and bags of euros that investigators say are part of a huge $1.4 billion cocaine money-laundering scheme. ...more

February 16, 2008

TAMPA - Postal inspectors in Puerto Rico flagged a suspicious express mail package bound for Polk County. Turns out it contained nearly 2 pounds of cocaine inside coffee bags, Polk County deputies say. ...more

February 14, 2008

When Larry Peters sold the 30-year-old twin engine plane back in August 2006, he thought it was just another deal by his small St. Petersburg-based aircraft sales company, according to his lawyer. ...more

February 9, 2008