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Officials this week confiscated more than 10 tons of cocaine seized from sugar and bananas in two South America drug busts and arrested at least five people in connection to the trafficking cases ...

Authorities in Paraguay found more than 4 tons of cocaine stashed inside a shipment of sugar bound for Belgium in the country's largest cocaine seizure, code-named "Operation Sweetness." ...

Cocaine smuggled in rollerblades from South America to Wisconsin 00:32. ... after officials were surprised to find more than 4 tons of the drug stashed inside a shipment of sugar bound for Belgium.

Officials this week confiscated more than 10 tons of cocaine seized from sugar and bananas in two South America drug busts and arrested at least five people in connection to the trafficking cases.

These modified flies were subsequently introduced to sugar water infused with a low concentration of cocaine. Within 16 hours, the insects indicated a preference for the drug-laced drink.

Travis Philyaw, PhD, first author on the paper, suspected that the answer might lie in the flies’ sense of taste. “Insects are evolutionarily primed to avoid plant toxins, and cocaine is a plant toxin ...

Authorities in Paraguay seized over 4 tons of cocaine with a market value of around $240 million inside a shipment of sugar that was destined for Belgium, the country’s anti-drug agency Senad ...