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Two minors were arrested on Friday in the northern region of Halkidiki for peddling drugs at a high school dance. Police discovered the suspects at the venue with cocaine in their possession.

Six packages of cocaine, totaling 5.4 grams, along with 1,060 euros in cash and two mobile phones, were seized.

Drug trafficking investigations at Piraeus Port have exposed major security gaps, including blind spots in security camera coverage. The investigation, triggered by the 1.2 kg cocaine seizure inside a refrigeration system in late 2023, revealed that cameras in critical areas in the container terminal were not functional, leaving those areas unmonitored.

A 57-year-old man was arrested last night in Igoumenitsa by officers of the Coast Guard.

The competent authorities conducted an inspection of a refrigerated truck with a semi-trailer, which had been unloaded from a ship arriving from Italy.

A major operation by the Police Department resulted in the arrest of two individuals – members of a criminal organization with an international footprint – who facilitated the importation, distribution and delivery of quantities of cocaine originating from Latin America through the port of Piraeus.

Colombia’s Navy has spotted and stopped a semi-submarine vessel filled with cocaine in an operation in which hundreds of arrests have been made.

This is just one of six semi-submersibles (i.e. boats that do not fully submerge and move almost unseen) that were spotted during the operation.

Authorities from dozens of countries seized 225 tons of cocaine in a six-week mega-operation worldwide, and unearthed a new trafficking route to Australia, the Colombian Navy said on Nov. 27.

A juvenile was caught in the gears of “hard” drugs, but he was not limited to their use, but was also distributing them to other users in areas of Sparta, together with a 20-year-old foreigner who systematically used him as a “drug dealer”.

Greek police uncovered 21 kilograms of cocaine, with an estimated street value of one million euros, concealed in a container carrying bananas at the capital's port of Piraeus on Wednesday. 

The container, which originated in Ecuador, was deemed suspicious and X-rayed before police and sniffer dogs conducted a search.

New information has emerged about the discovery of a second container of cocaine in a container in the port of Piraeus this week.

The second shipment, found on Thursday, comprises 100 kilograms of cocaine, which was hidden among frozen squid.

Greek authorities have dismantled an international criminal group trafficking cocaine in shipping containers from Latin America to Europe, police said on Thursday.

Two Albanians and two Greeks were arrested after a months-long investigation launched by Greek drugs and contraband enforcement authorities in cooperation with the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA).