Drug Enforcement Administration

More than 1 ton of drugs and 1 million drug pills have been seized and 250 individuals have been arrested during the nationwide crackdown against drug trafficking, Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya has announced.

A 30-year-old woman was arrested on Tuesday afternoon at the Athens' Eleftherios Venizelos International Airport for drug trafficking. 

According to the police, an investigation in cooperation with the DEA office of the US embassy located the woman after she landed in Greece on a flight from Switzerland.

A total of 37 kilograms of cannabis was located in the woman's luggage. 

Authorities have seized 64 kilograms of cocaine from inside a container at the port of Piraeus.

Acting on a tip off from the US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), an anti-drugs unit on Monday searched a container from Ecuador and found 58 makeshift packages containing the cocaine.

The drugs had an estimated market value of 2 million euros, the authorities said.

Narcotics investigators are looking into the connections of a 41-year-old man who was found to keep a large stash of drugs and cash in his home after being arrested in Athens last Tuesday.

A total of 340.5 kilograms of drugs in 10 sacks were seized on the border line in the eastern province of Van, the Defense Ministry has announced.

Istanbul police have seized 1.1 tons of methamphetamine, a record amount of a potent central nervous system stimulant used as a recreational drug, during simultaneous anti-drug operations held on May 24.

"A big anti-drug operation. Congratulations to Turkish police," Interior Minister Süleyman Soylu said in a tweet.

Four men believed to be members of a drug distribution crew have been charged in the overdose death of actor Michael K. Williams five months ago, authorities said on Feb. 2.

The Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) and the US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) under the Justice Department have conducted a special operation to uncover a criminal network that was engaged in trafficking cocaine from South America to Russia and Europe.

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Cocaine on Aressa ship. Photo: Montenegro's Police Directorate

Montenegro's Police Directorate on Wednesday said that the arrest was part of a months-long international action initiated by Montenegrin, Serbian, Dutch and British law enforcement.