Prodrugs

Their son is away from home for the seventh time. He is in a rehabilitation center to treat his 20-year addiction to heroin and other illegal drugs. His previous attempts to quit, both in Greece and abroad, ended in relapses just a few months after he returned to his childhood home in Menidi. His parents are worried that there is no way out of this vicious cycle.

Police in Edime have reported that Turkish border police have seized 775kg of heroin at the Hemzabeyli border crossing on the border with Bulgaria, quoted by BNR.

The record quantity of drugs was found in a truck with an Iranian registration traveling from Iran through Turkey and Bulgaria to Romania.

A protected witness, K1, one of the members of Naser Kelmendi's alleged crime ring, testified against his alleged former boss on Monday, stating that the group smuggled heroin from Turkey through Bulgaria, Slovenia and Croatia to Bosnia, where it was sold to different European countries.

Interior Minister Nebojsa Stefanovic said on Friday that police had arrested several drugs trafficking suspects, including the two biggest drug lords in Serbia.

An Ohio mother printed a photo of her dead husband to raise awareness on social media of the tragic consequences of heroin use. She  wrote:

Greek police have arrested a Nigerian man for possession of heroin at the Eleftherios Venizelos International Airport in Athens, Sunday. Officers of the Attica Narcotics Department apprehended the 37-year-old Nigerian when he landed in Athens, flying from Uganda via Constantinople. The man had swallowed 1.285 grams of heroin in small packs.

More than 70 kg of heroin and 2 million USD in cash was discovered by the New York DEA, making this drug bust the biggest in the history of the city.

The massive operation in the northern part of the Bronx was the fourth largest heroin op in US history.

Only last month, authorities in New York JFK seized heroin transported on two jets.

Turkish police seized 600 kilograms of heroin hidden in a truck which was made look like a snowplow in the eastern province of Elaz?? April 12, marking the biggest drug seizure in Turkey so far this year.

Pensioner suspected of drug trafficking

NIS -- The police in Nis carried out two raids on Friday, arresting two suspected drug traffickers and confiscating 900 grams of a substance "believed to be heroin."

The two suspects now in custody have been identified as 48-year-old man, Z.M., and 68-year-old woman, M.S., both residents of the southern town.

The trial of Naser Kelmendi started in Prishtina on Friday with EULEX Special Prosecutor Andrew Hughes giving an opening statement in front of the Basic Court in Prishtina.