Police in the Sicilian city of Catania have sized 1.3 kilograms of cocaine that was being transported in a bag containing the popular spicy Calabrian sausage,'nduja.
Police in Italy have been ordered to seize a herbal tea from Peru that has been on general sale in the country for years after it was discovered that the tea contained cocaine.
Costa Rican police on Wednesday smashed a drug
ring linked to the Italian mafia that smuggled cocaine hidden in shipments of
vegetables to the United States and Europe, prosecutors said.
A man was caught allegedly trying to sell cocaine to people queuing to see the Shroud, which went on display in Turin for the first time in five years on Sunday.
Italian police on Tuesday made 31 arrests in connection with an alleged plot by an offshoot of the notorious 'Ndrangheta crime group to take control of Rome's cocaine trade.
Her drug dealing career spanned over 50 years, but now an 82-year-old woman, nicknamed “the grandmother of drug pushers”, has finally been arrested at her home in Sardinia.
Two Italian men are in French jail after they allegedly used an official Vatican vehicle to try to smuggle several kilos of cocaine and cannabis through France, according to media reports.
More and more Italian teenagers are experimenting with cannabis, with almost one in four having tried the drug at least once in the past year, a new government report on drug addiction has found.
The mayor of a town in Puglia lost his "Honourable" title after being embroiled in a drugs and sex scandal in 2008, but now he's told staff he wants it back, despite still facing charges.
A priest in northern Italy has been arrested for allegedly dealing cocaine, after police raided a drug-fuelled party in Milan, Italian media reported on Wednesday.
A mother of three in Sicily has been jailed after her toddler son was admitted to hospital with bruises, scratches, burns and a suspected cocaine overdose.
German customs officials have intercepted a package addressed to the Vatican containing 14 condoms filled with cocaine, a newspaper reported on Sunday.
Police on Monday said they have uncovered a €13 million cocaine haul at Italy’s Gioia Tauro port, named last month as the transfer point for Syria’s deadly chemical weapons.
An anti-drug campaign in Rome, which ran with the tagline 'Cocaine? Sugar is #muchbetter', and aimed to get young people talking about alternatives to drug use, has backfired, with Twitter users making fun of the advert.
