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A 23-year-old man was cleared of conspiracy to smuggle more than $470,000 worth of drugs into the island

An alleged drug smuggler was told to pretend he was on his way back from a funeral days before he was found with drugs in his bags at the airport, the Supreme Court was told yesterday. Detective Sergeant Leanda Johnston told the court that phones tha...

A man accused of smuggling more than $470,000 of drugs into Bermuda told police he had bought his flight ticket in cash - then refused to answer any more questions. Detective Sergeant Leanda Johnston told the Supreme Court that she questioned Zadun R...

A customs officer found a series of packages hidden in an alleged drug smuggler’s suitcases, the Supreme Court heard. Zadun Robinson, 22, has denied charges that he smuggled more than $400,000 of drugs into the island on August 28, 2018. Prosecutors ...

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...

Police have seized “a large quantity of cash” after officers executed a series of warrants linked with a weekend drugs raid. It comes as police confirmed that cocaine, heroin and the dangerous synthetic opioid fentanyl had been found at the weekend a...

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...

A plot to smuggle drugs into Bermuda was discovered after US customs found hollowed-out books that smelt of cannabis in a visitor’s suitcase. Marley Watkins and Adanessa Infante — both US citizens — were jailed earlier this year for a conspiracy to i...

Two US citizens found guilty of the importation of $102,400 worth of cannabis resin have had their sentences increased by the Supreme Court. Marley Watkins, 39, a resident at the time, had his original Magistrates’ Court sentence of nine months, with...

Police have shut down suggestions that drugs were found on island beaches after a video was posted on social media. A police spokeswoman said officers were sure the footage was not shot on the island. She added: "The Bermuda Police Service is aware o...

Prisoner numbers have been slashed by more than 50 per cent over the last 11 years, The Royal Gazette can reveal. Senior Magistrate Juan Wolffe said that locking up offenders was the “last option” and that community-based sentences meant debts to soc...