Latest "narcotics" stories

Coast Guard nabs $20 million of illegal drugs in major bust

The Coast Guard seized $20 million worth of illegal drugs on Saturday in the Arabian Sea.

By Jonathan Lehrfeld

4 weeks ago

U.S. Air Force Maj. Brandon Bailey, 332nd Expeditionary Operations Support Squadron medical crew director, awaits the arrival of patients from a forward operating base in Mosul, Iraq, on Sept. 23, 2008, during a "Bandage Mission." Bandage Missions travel to different FOBs throughout Iraq and pick up patients and transport them to the Air Force Theater Hospital in Joint Base Balad, Iraq. (Staff Sgt. Aaron Allmon/Air Force)

A major was kicked out for stealing narcotics. Then he took $820,000 from the Air Force.

For the past two years, former Air Force Maj. Brandon Bailey has been the subject of a federal investigation into a complex web of financial and bankruptcy fraud he spun over the course of a decade.

By Rachel S. Cohen

12 months ago

SIGAR: Drug lab bombing was a dead end, and most metrics for success or failure in Afghanistan are ‘classified or nonexistent'

The drug lab bombing campaign in Afghanistan that was championed as a game-changer didn’t have the intended effect of hitting the Taliban’s purse and was probably a waste of resources.

By Kyle Rempfer

4 years ago

Naked Bush sailor arrested after mad dash through Busch Gardens parking lot

Dozens of attendees at Busch Gardens Williamsburg were taken on a very different roller coaster ride Friday night thanks to an unruly Navy man.

4 years ago

Is the Coast Guard’s icebreaker project doomed?

Capitol Hill wrangling might shift money for a new icebreaker to President Donald Trump's border wall.

By Carl Prine

5 years ago

US-led coalition destroys Islamic State narcotics cache — including 300,000 so-called ‘Jihadi pills’

The international coalition to defeat the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria destroyed a large drug cache on June 12 that was previously controlled by the militant group.

By Kyle Rempfer

5 years ago