Edition O'021

Drug News Roundup

Monday, September 14, 2026 · 9 stories

Covering reporting published since the Sept 13 edition, roughly Sept 12-14, with South American incident dates running back to Sept 10 where Spanish-language reporting lagged. No federal-level US story surfaced that wasn't already logged: DEA's press-release feed has posted nothing new since Sept 9 (the Rockland, Massachusetts opioid case already in the last edition), and a search across CBP, Coast Guard, DOJ/USAO and Treasury/OFAC turned up nothing from this window that was both new and substantial — the federal section is empty today rather than padded with stale filler. Excluded after verification: a recirculating 'DEA-led raid off Ecuador nets 3,284 kilos of cocaine' story, still sourced only to an undated DEA social-media post with no named agencies, date or location, excluded from the last two editions for the same reason; a California DOJ 'Santa Ana trafficker' release that read as breaking news but is a 2023 case being recirculated; a Kansas City fentanyl/carfentanil indictment already logged Sept 3; an India Mizoram seizure already logged Sept 11 (same article, re-surfaced in search); and several Pakistani ANF and Argentine Gendarmeria seizures that were day-to-day repeats of a pattern already represented in the log this month. No new development emerged on the SOUTHCOM boat-strike or refueling-vessel campaigns (SOUTHCOM's press page has posted nothing since the Sept 9 strike already logged), the Los Tiguerones case, Uruguay's Artigas airdrop case or Bolivia's aircraft-grounding crackdown, so the ongoing section is empty again.

1National / Federal (US)

Nothing significant in the past 24 hours.

2Local US Arrests

Florida's Washington County calls a 16-month investigation its largest meth case ever, charges 15

1.4 kg methamphetamineWashington County, Florida15 charged

Sheriff Kevin Crews said "Operation King of the Hill" — a joint investigation by his office, the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, the DEA and the Georgia Bureau of Investigation that ran from March 2025 to June 2026 — has produced felony charges against 15 people accused of moving methamphetamine from North Georgia into the rural Florida Panhandle county, which he called the largest meth investigation in the county's history. Investigators traced local distribution to Wendy Holloway and Issac Noss, who were stopped by Florida Highway Patrol on June 8, 2026 with about 3 pounds of methamphetamine after a supply run to Georgia, and from there to alleged North Georgia suppliers Tekoa Ross and Edgar Soto; the sheriff's office estimated the ring moved 50 to 70 pounds of methamphetamine into the county over the life of the case.

SourceHoodline

Pixel-art scene of the seized items: 1.4 kg methamphetamine — 1.4 kg meth

Three Ohio sheriffs close a three-week sweep with six arrests and five guns off the street

Franklin County, Ohio6 arrested

The Franklin, Union and Licking County sheriff's offices announced September 13 that a joint three-week operation targeting narcotics dealers based in Franklin County, who investigators said were supplying surrounding counties, ended with six arrests and five firearms seized. Searches also recovered roughly 10 grams of fentanyl and 3 grams of heroin, which the Franklin County Sheriff's Office framed as part of an ongoing effort to disrupt drug distribution networks across central Ohio.

SourceHoodline

3South America

Colombian Navy runs down a cocaine go-fast boat in the central Caribbean, seizes 865 kilos rigged with a Starlink terminal

865 kg cocaineCaribbean Sea, Colombia1 arrested

Colombia's Navy intercepted a speeding "go-fast" boat in the central Caribbean on September 13 after its crew spotted the patrol and tried to outrun it toward the coast. Boarding teams found 29 sacks holding 861 packages of cocaine hydrochloride, along with a Starlink satellite antenna, a satellite phone and GPS units the smugglers had been using to navigate undetected; one man was captured aboard and taken to Cartagena, and the Navy valued the seized cocaine at more than $40 million.

Source724 Noticias

Pixel-art scene of the seized items: 865 kg cocaine — 9 × 100 kg ≈ 865 kg cocaine

Colombian traffic police pry open a false floor and find 420 kilos of cocaine bound for the Antioquia border

420 kg cocaineRisaralda, Colombia

National Police traffic officers stopped a pickup truck on September 13 at kilometer 21 of the Barro Blanco sector in Quinchia, Risaralda, on the highway linking Caldas, Risaralda and Antioquia, and found 420 kilograms of cocaine hydrochloride hidden inside a false floor built into the truck bed. The driver abandoned the vehicle and escaped into nearby woods before officers could make an arrest; authorities valued the drugs at more than 1.6 billion pesos and referred the case to narcotics prosecutors in Bogota.

Source724 Noticias

Pixel-art scene of the seized items: 420 kg cocaine — 4 × 100 kg ≈ 420 kg cocaine

Chilean prosecutors use a controlled delivery to unravel a 1.6-tonne cannabis run from Antofagasta toward Santiago

1,600 kg cannabisAntofagasta, Chile4 arrested

Chile's OS7 narcotics unit and the Supra-Regional Prosecutor's Office spent months building a case before making arrests around September 10, when they moved on a shipment of more than 1,600 kilograms of cannabis that had entered the country through the Antofagasta region for delivery to the Santiago metropolitan area. Rather than a roadside stop, investigators relied on surveillance and a controlled-delivery technique to map the network before detaining four people described by officials as two Venezuelan and two Colombian nationals, who allegedly served as transporters, armed security and a financier.

SourceLa Hora

Pixel-art scene of the seized items: 1,600 kg cannabis — 24 × 25 kg cannabis

4Rest of World

Nigeria's drug agency intercepts UK-mailed synthetic-cannabis parcels in an eight-state, 2.3-tonne sweep

2.3 tonnes assorted drugsmultiple states, Nigeriaseveral arrested

Nigeria's National Drug Law Enforcement Agency reported operations across Lagos, Ondo, Edo, Delta, Kaduna, Plateau, Bayelsa and Kano states between September 9 and 13 that recovered more than 2.3 tonnes of assorted drugs, including cannabis, the synthetic cannabinoid known locally as "Colos," and quantities of pregabalin, tramadol, diazepam and MDMA. Among the hauls were two parcels of synthetic cannabis mailed from the United Kingdom to Lagos's Murtala Muhammed International Airport, weighing about 32 kilograms and 12 kilograms; agency operatives arrested several suspects across the affected states, including a real estate agent and a tour agent accused of receiving the UK shipments.

SourcePRNigeria

Pixel-art scene of the seized items: 2.3 tonnes assorted drugs — 5 × 500 kg ≈ 2.3 t drugs

Philippine agents raid a Taytay safehouse, seize a small arsenal and shabu worth ₱40.8 million

Taytay, Rizal, Philippines3 arrested

PDEA and police agents raided a house in Sitio Dulong Bangiad, Barangay San Juan, in Taytay, Rizal, at 5:30 a.m. on September 14 during a buy-bust operation, arresting three men known by the aliases "Diogen," "Muhammad" and "Eddienel" and seizing shabu authorities valued at about 40.8 million pesos. Officers also recovered an M1 carbine, an M16 rifle, four .45-caliber pistols and ammunition; a fourth suspect, alias "Abdila," fled before agents arrived and is now the subject of a manhunt.

SourceManila Bulletin

Pixel-art scene: raid and arrests — raid and arrests

Costa Rican police raid a house near the Panama border and find 312 kilos of cocaine

312 kg cocaineCanoas, Costa Rica

Acting on an anonymous tip about a suspicious vehicle, Costa Rica's Drug Control Police and the Public Force searched a home in the Mariposa area of Canoas, near the border with Panama, around September 10 and found 312 kilograms of cocaine. Drug Control Police director Stephen Madden confirmed the seizure; no arrests were reported in connection with the find.

SourceInfobae Costa Rica

Pixel-art scene of the seized items: 312 kg cocaine — 31 × 10 kg cocaine

Assam Rifles breaks up two Myanmar-border smuggling runs in Mizoram, seizing meth tablets and heroin

6.99 kg methamphetamineMizoram, India2 arrested

Assam Rifles troops, working with Mizoram's Excise and Narcotics Department and the Narcotics Control Bureau, intercepted two vehicles in the Seling area of Aizawl district overnight on September 11-12 and recovered 6.991 kilograms of methamphetamine tablets, arresting two suspected couriers. In a separate operation the same night at Lungvar in Khawzawl district, troops acting on intelligence about a narcotics transshipment recovered 382 grams of heroin; officials valued the two hauls together at more than 6 crore rupees.

SourceNortheast Today

Pixel-art scene of the seized items: 6.99 kg methamphetamine — 7 × 1 kg meth

5Ongoing Stories with New Developments

Nothing significant in the past 24 hours.

2026 Running Tally

Total weight intercepted across every story covered so far this year, through Sep 14, 2026. Counts seizures only — sentencings and indictments are not double-counted — and resets to zero each 1 January. Earlier years are kept below.

104 t 21 editions · 49 places · 13 substances

United States

Puerto Rico1 substance3.3 t

cocaine3.3 t

Texas3 substances1.6 t

methamphetamine1.3 t
cocaine228 kg
cannabis1.8 kg

Illinois1 substance532 kg

khat532 kg

New York3 substances284 kg

cocaine277 kg
fentanyl7.5 kg
fentanyl/heroin250 g

Indiana1 substance126 kg

cocaine126 kg

Pennsylvania1 substance113 kg

cannabis113 kg

Florida4 substances39 kg

cannabis20 kg
cocaine9.7 kg
fentanyl5 kg
methamphetamine4.2 kg

Minnesota2 substances28 kg

methamphetamine27 kg
cocaine883 g

Kentucky2 substances20 kg

methamphetamine20 kg
fentanyl60 g

Mississippi5 substances17 kg

cannabis9.5 kg
methamphetamine4.8 kg
cocaine3 kg
mdma140 g
fentanyl25 g

South Carolina2 substances7.9 kg

fentanyl4.1 kg
methamphetamine3.8 kg

Missouri2 substances6 kg

cocaine3.5 kg
fentanyl2.5 kg

North Dakota2 substances5.6 kg

methamphetamine5.4 kg
cocaine155 g

West Virginia3 substances4.8 kg

methamphetamine3.6 kg
fentanyl909 g
cocaine233 g

Tennessee3 substances4.7 kg

fentanyl2.2 kg
methamphetamine2 kg
cocaine500 g

Alabama3 substances3.3 kg

methamphetamine2.3 kg
cocaine1 kg
fentanyl21 g

California2 substances2.9 kg

cocaine2.2 kg
methamphetamine680 g

Nebraska2 substances2.4 kg

methamphetamine2.4 kg
cocaine17 g

Massachusetts2 substances2 kg

fentanyl1.7 kg
cocaine316 g

Ohio3 substances2 kg

cocaine2 kg
fentanyl10 g
heroin3 g

International

Mexico4 substances19.1 t

methamphetamine17.2 t
cannabis1.8 t
fentanyl9.1 kg
heroin7.7 kg

Spain2 substances14.6 t

hashish11.3 t
cocaine3.4 t

Brazil3 substances13.9 t

cannabis11.5 t
cocaine2.4 t
hashish40 kg

Colombia3 substances11.9 t

cocaine9.6 t
cannabis1.6 t
coca base684 kg

Ecuador2 substances10.7 t

cocaine9.8 t
cannabis900 kg

Nigeria3 substances7.0 t

cannabis7.0 t
methamphetamine2 kg
cocaine350 g

Portugal1 substance5.3 t

hashish5.3 t

France1 substance3.9 t

cocaine3.9 t

Indonesia1 substance2.6 t

methamphetamine2.6 t

Chile2 substances1.9 t

cannabis1.9 t
cocaine7.2 kg

Romania3 substances1.6 t

hashish1.3 t
cannabis228 kg
cocaine114 kg

Venezuela1 substance905 kg

cannabis905 kg

Argentina2 substances828 kg

cannabis507 kg
cocaine321 kg

Peru2 substances614 kg

cocaine364 kg
coca base250 kg

Pakistan4 substances479 kg

hashish301 kg
heroin173 kg
opium2.4 kg
methamphetamine2 kg

Sri Lanka1 substance463 kg

methamphetamine463 kg

Uruguay2 substances408 kg

cocaine305 kg
coca base103 kg

Bolivia1 substance405 kg

cocaine405 kg

South Africa1 substance336 kg

cocaine336 kg

Costa Rica1 substance312 kg

cocaine312 kg

Thailand1 substance166 kg

methamphetamine166 kg

India5 substances154 kg

methamphetamine72 kg
cannabis45 kg
amphetamine17 kg
mdma14 kg
heroin5.7 kg

Hong Kong2 substances141 kg

cocaine76 kg
ketamine65 kg

Afghanistan1 substance101 kg

opium101 kg

Malaysia3 substances98 kg

methamphetamine86 kg
mdma11 kg
ketamine630 g

Ireland2 substances26 kg

cocaine22 kg
cannabis4 kg

Italy1 substance17 kg

methamphetamine17 kg

Canada5 substances13 kg

mdma6.9 kg
fentanyl3.1 kg
methamphetamine2.2 kg
cocaine481 g
cannabis479 g

Philippines1 substance3.9 kg

methamphetamine3.9 kg