Trafficking
Mexico’s Top Female Narco Accused the Former President of Being a Narco
The onetime “Queen of the Pacific” joined one of Mexico's most popular YouTubers to “clean her name of all the lies spread” about her.
Rhino Horns, Tiger Teeth and 6 Tonnes of Ivory Seized in $18M Record Bust
The historic seizure, which came from Africa via Abu Dhabi, reaffirms Malaysia's status as a major regional wildlife trafficking hub.
She Thought a Job Was Waiting for Her in Europe. Then She Met Her Trafficker.
“No woman should go through what I did.”
Airport X-Ray Finds 109 Live Animals Crammed into 2 Suitcases
Experts have warned that illegal wildlife trafficking could surge as international borders reopen.
Cocaine Haul Worth £68M Sent to Supermarket in Banana Boxes By Mistake
Police found 840kg of cocaine hidden in crates of bananas sent to stores in the Czech Republic. It’s the fifth time this has happened at shops across the world in the last 18 months.
Operation Underground Railroad Touts Non-Existent Partnership With American Airlines
OUR’s CEO Tim Ballard claimed the organization has a “collaboration” this month with American Airlines, but American says otherwise.
It Took Us Less Than 24 Hours to Order an Endangered Tiger on Facebook
Bears, pangolins, leopard cats: It’s shockingly easy to buy some of the most endangered species globally on the world's largest social media platform.
Migrant Woman Says She Was Repeatedly Raped in ‘Modern-Day’ Slavery Ring in Georgia
Three men pleaded guilty as part of Operation Blooming Onion, a massive federal investigation into forced labor in Georgia.
Migrant Kids Face Danger, Trauma, and Separation at ‘Hellhole’ Border Tent Camp
Whistleblowers warn that children who arrive alone at the US-Mexico border are being housed in grim conditions at a Texas military base.
Cops Tried to Claim a Smuggler’s £90 Drugs Stash Was Worth Nearly £1m
Authorities tried to convince a court that a British man was in line to make a profit of nearly £1 million. An expert told VICE World News he found the overvaluation “incredulous.”
The Ex-President of Honduras Who Wanted to ‘Shove Drugs Up the Noses of Gringos’ Could Face Justice in the US
A Honduran judged authorized the extradition of former President Juan Orlando Hernández to the U.S.
Trafficker Given 15 Years for Deaths of 39 Migrants Who Suffocated in a Truck
The victims, all Vietnamese, desperately attempted to contact the outside world as temperatures inside the container rose to 40 degrees celsius.