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BPS receive warnings about fentanyl-laced drugs on island and activate Operation Holly

Christopher McIver, 60, from Arizona, was charged with importing cocaine, cannabis, a substance containing THC and diamorphine

Prosecutors have failed to prove that a man charged with the possession of almost $1 million of heroin knew the drugs were in his van, it has been claimed. During closing submissions in the Supreme Court trial of Winston Paynter yesterday, defence la...

Six rounds of ammunition were discovered by police during a search of the home of a suspected drug dealer, a Supreme Court jury has heard. Winston Paynter, of North Shore in Devonshire, is charged with possession of diamorphine – otherwise known as h...

Two defendants who denied conspiring to smuggle $173,000 worth of heroin into Bermuda will face trial in the Supreme Court in September. Tyrone Burchall, 49, from Southampton, and Angela Simmons, 57, from Devonshire, both pleaded not guilty yesterday...

A man caught smuggling almost $10 million of heroin into Bermuda has had his prison sentence cut by five years after an appeal. The Court of Appeal found that Josef Vlcek’s 30-year sentence – the heaviest sentence ever dealt for drug importation in B...

A man jailed for 30 years for smuggling almost $10 million of heroin into Bermuda has claimed his ability to mount a defence was damaged by translation problems. Josef Vlcek, from the Czech Republic, was convicted in 2019 of trying to smuggle nearly ...

Hard drugs heroin and fentanyl have been seized in a series of raids by police designed to crack down on gang and gun crime. Acting Assistant Commissioner of Police Nicholas Pedro warned that fentanyl – an synthetic opioid and a potential killer whic...

Drugs laced with a potential killer synthetic opioid are suspected to be in circulation on the island, police warned yesterday. The news came after a man died from a suspected overdose said to be linked to heroin laced with fentanyl. A police raid du...

A man is feared to have died after an overdose of fentanyl-laced heroin, police revealed yesterday. He was among several people who went to hospital because of the substance. A police spokesman said six suspects were arrested over the weekend after r...

The beauty of the character that Michael K. Williams brought to life on The Wire was his extraordinary complexity. Omar Little was a Black man who stalked the streets of Baltimore wearing a swashbuckling duster and carrying a deadly sawed-off shotgun...

A drug trafficker jailed for 18 years has had an appeal for a lighter sentence rejected. Omar Davy, 40, was found guilty of smuggling $765,700 worth of heroin on a flight from Toronto in 2018. Last month he launched an appeal for a lesser senten...