💀 Narco-Trafficking Intel 639
SOUTHCOM strikes · USCG / DEA / DOJ interdictions · OFAC narco designations — Cuba ties scored
⇩ CSV
💀 Total events
639
all-time
📅 Last 30 days
86
fresh ops tempo
🔴 Direct Cuba tie
9
+ 4 proximity
⚠ Casualties · killed
532
48 detained
⛔ Drug seized · total
5,262.3 t
sum drug_quantity_kg
🚢 Vessel-linked
0
FK / IMO / name
✈ Aircraft-linked
1
FK / callsign / reg
🎯 Recent high-impact narco events ≥1 killed or ≥500 kg seized
2026-09-17
⚪ NONE
Takedown of “Operation Klean Strip” Dismantles Two Methamphetamine Conversion Labs; Nine Arrested, Three Indicted
⛔ 985 kg · marijuana
2026-09-15
⚪ NONE
The InSight Take: Colombia’s Total Peace: What Went Wrong and What Comes Next?
⛔ 1,700.0 t · cocaine
📍 South America · insightcrime.org
2026-08-11
⚪ NONE
The InSight Take: Abelardo de la Espriella Inherits Colombia’s Fractured Criminal Landscape
⛔ 3,000.0 t · cocaine
📍 Caribbean · insightcrime.org
🎭 By perpetrator org top 10 by event count
| Organisation | Events | Cuba-tied | Killed | Drug · kg | Last seen |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 🎭 CJNG |
36
|
— | 95 | 2.4 t | 2026-10-15 |
| 🎭 Cártel de Sinaloa |
29
|
— | — | 500.3 t | 2026-10-27 |
| 🎭 Tren de Aragua |
22
|
3 | 86 | 3 kg | 2026-09-24 |
| 🎭 Clan del Golfo |
9
|
— | — | 4,700.0 t | 2026-09-24 |
| 🎭 FARC dissidents |
9
|
1 | — | — | 2026-10-01 |
| 🎭 ELN |
7
|
— | — | 10 kg | 2026-08-27 |
| 🎭 Cartel de los Soles |
5
|
5 | — | — | 2026-09-24 |
| 🎭 Cártel del Golfo |
2
|
— | — | — | 2026-08-17 |
| Date | Type | Actor | Region | Cuba tie | Killed | Drug · kg | Title / Vessel / Perpetrator | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-07-13 | DEA_PRESS | SOUTHCOM | — | ⚪ NONE | — | — |
U.S. Forces Complete New Strikes on Iranian Military Targets TAMPA, Fla. — U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) completed the latest wave of strikes against Iran at 10:15 p.m. ET on July 13.
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| 2026-07-12 | DEA_PRESS | SOUTHCOM | — | ⚪ NONE | — | — |
CENTCOM Completes Another Wave of Strikes Against Iran TAMPA, Fla. — U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) completed a new wave of offensive strikes against Iran, July 12, hitting dozens of targets at multiple locations with precision munitions to degrade Iran’s ability to continue…
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| 2026-07-11 | DEA_PRESS | SOUTHCOM | — | ⚪ NONE | — | — |
U.S. Forces Finish Latest Round of Strikes Against Iran TAMPA, Fla. — U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) completed a third round of strikes this week against Iran, July 11, holding Iranian forces accountable for attacking another commercial ship in the Strait of Hormuz.
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| 2026-07-11 | DEA_PRESS | SOUTHCOM | — | ⚪ NONE | — | — |
COMBAT ARCHER UK 2026 is ready to launch in the United Kingdom U.S. Air Force Airmen and aircraft are slated to join Royal Air Force forces for Exercise COMBAT ARCHER UK 2026 (CA-UK ‘26), scheduled July 13-24, 2026. Participating units and assets as a part of COMBAT ARCHER will be F…
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| 2026-07-10 | INDICTMENT | DOJ | — | ⚪ NONE | — | marijuana 70 kg |
Four Men Sentenced for Bringing Over 70 kilograms of Marijuana to St. Thomas St. Thomas, USVI – U.S. Attorney Adam F. Sleeper announced today that James King, Masaca Creque, Dwayne Blash, and Harry Davis were sentenced this week for their roles in bringing a large amount of marijuana to St. Thom…
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📎 justice.gov ↗ |
| 2026-07-10 | INDICTMENT | INSIGHTCRIME | Central America | ⚪ NONE | — | cocaine — |
Juan Carlos Valencia González, alias ‘El 03’ 🎭 CJNG
Juan Carlos Valencia González, alias ‘El 03’
Juan Carlos Valencia González—known as “El 03” or “Pelón”—is one of the most senior figures in the Jalisco Cartel New Generation (Cartel Jalisco…
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| 2026-07-10 | INDICTMENT | INSIGHTCRIME | Central America | ⚪ NONE | — | methamphetamine — |
US Names El Mencho’s Successor—CJNG May Have Other Plans 🎭 CJNG
US Names El Mencho’s Successor—CJNG May Have Other Plans
For nearly two decades, Juan Carlos Valencia González built power inside Mexico’s Jalisco Cartel while staying almost invisible to the public.
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📎 insightcrime.org ↗ |
| 2026-07-10 | INTERDICTION | INSIGHTCRIME | Pacific | 🟡 PROXIMITY | — | cocaine 100.0 t |
Panama Profile 🎭 Cártel de Sinaloa
Panama Profile
Panama’s strategic location, connecting Central and South America, has made it a key transit point for illicit trade, as well as a refuge and negotiating area for criminal organizations. Its trade-o…
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| 2026-07-10 | INTERDICTION | INSIGHTCRIME | Central America | ⚪ NONE | — | cocaine — |
Haiti Haiti
Haiti’s criminal landscape has been shaped by the country’s tumultuous history, marked by longstanding political instability, economic challenges, and repeated natural disasters.
Gangs and other crimina…
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| 2026-07-10 | INDICTMENT | DOJ | — | ⚪ NONE | — | cocaine — |
BATON ROUGE MAN SENTENCED TO 110 MONTHS IN FEDERAL PRISON FOR MAJOR DRUG TRAFFICKING CONSPIRACY Alexander Brock, age 60, of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, was sentenced to 110 months in federal prison following his conviction for conspiracy to distribute and to possess with the intent to distribute cocaine and crack …
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| 2026-07-10 | DEA_PRESS | DOJ | — | ⚪ NONE | — | heroin — |
Former Afghan General And First Deputy House Speaker Extradited To U.S. To Face Charges Of Conspiring To Traffic Hundreds Of Kilograms Of Heroin And Methamphetamine And Provide Arsenal Of Military-Grade Weaponry United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Jay Clayton, Acting Attorney General for the United States, Todd Blanche, and Administrator of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (“DEA”), Terrance C. C…
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| 2026-07-10 | INDICTMENT | DOJ | — | ⚪ NONE | — | methamphetamine — |
Prior Felon from Locust Grove Sentenced to More than Twenty Years in Prison A Locust Grove man was sentenced today for possessing methamphetamine and being a felon in possession of a firearm while drug trafficking, announced U.S. Attorney Clint Johnson.
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| 2026-07-10 | INDICTMENT | DOJ | — | ⚪ NONE | — | methamphetamine — |
Methamphetamine Trafficker Will Spend 12 Years in Prison After selling methamphetamine from her New Martinsville, West Virginia apartment, Jamie Ann Tanner was sentenced to 151 months in federal prison, announced U.S. Attorney Matthew L. Harvey.
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📎 justice.gov ↗ |
| 2026-07-10 | DEA_PRESS | DOJ | — | ⚪ NONE | — | marijuana — |
United States Files False Claims Act Complaint Against Founder of Cannabis Companies for Illegally Obtaining Pandemic Loans SAN DIEGO – The United States has filed a complaint under the False Claims Act (FCA) against Laurie Holcomb, founder of multiple cannabis companies, alleging that she illegally obtained five pandemic-related loans f…
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📎 justice.gov ↗ |
| 2026-07-10 | DEA_PRESS | DOJ | — | ⚪ NONE | — | heroin — |
Former Afghan General and First Deputy House Speaker Extradited to U.S. to Face Charges of Conspiring to Traffic Hundreds of Kilograms of Heroin and Methamphetamine and Provide Arsenal of Military-Grade Weaponry |
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| 2026-07-09 | DEA_PRESS | INSIGHTCRIME | South America | ⚪ NONE | — | — |
On the Radar: ‘El Mayo’ Wants to Avoid Maximum-Security Prison 🎭 Cártel de Sinaloa
On the Radar: ‘El Mayo’ Wants to Avoid Maximum-Security Prison
Can “El Mayo” avoid the same supermax fate as his former business partner “El Chapo”?
Will renewed US bounties bring down…
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| 2026-07-08 | ARREST | INSIGHTCRIME | South America | ⚪ NONE | — | — |
La Unión Tepito 🎭 Tren de Aragua
La Unión Tepito
La Unión Tepito is a criminal network made up of cells operating in Mexico City., taking its name from Tepito, one of the capital’s best-known neighborhoods. It is one of the city’s dominant crimin…
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| 2026-07-08 | DEA_PRESS | INSIGHTCRIME | South America | ⚪ NONE | — | cocaine 10 kg |
Can A New President’s Hard-Line Approach Stop the Spread of Coca in Colombia? 🎭 ELN
Can A New President’s Hard-Line Approach Stop the Spread of Coca in Colombia?
The United Nations has finally published its data on coca cultivation in Colombia in 2024, as drug crop plantations expanded…
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| 2026-07-07 | INDICTMENT | INSIGHTCRIME | Central America | ⚪ NONE | — | fentanyl — |
The Last Chapitos Standing: Iván Archivaldo and Jesús Alfredo Guzmán 🎭 Cártel de Sinaloa
The Last Chapitos Standing: Iván Archivaldo and Jesús Alfredo Guzmán
The United States is this week upping the multimillion-dollar rewards it has on the heads of the remaining leaders of the Sinaloa Cartel’s Chapi…
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| 2026-07-06 | OFAC_DESIGNATION | INSIGHTCRIME | Central America | ⚪ NONE | — | cocaine — |
The InSight Take: Inside Ecuador’s Chone Killers, the Latest Addition to US Terrorism List The InSight Take: Inside Ecuador’s Chone Killers, the Latest Addition to US Terrorism List
The US State Department has added the Chone Killers in Ecuador to its list of foreign terrorist organizations operat…
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| 2026-07-03 | INDICTMENT | INSIGHTCRIME | Central America | ⚪ NONE | — | cocaine — |
Jobanis de Jesús Ávila Villadiego, alias ‘Chiquito Malo’ 🎭 CJNG
Jobanis de Jesús Ávila Villadiego, alias ‘Chiquito Malo’
Jobanis de Jesús Ávila Villadiego, alias “Chiquito Malo,” is the commander of the Gulf Clan—also known as the Urabeños or the Gaitanist Self-Defense Forces …
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| 2026-07-03 | ARREST | INSIGHTCRIME | — | ⚪ NONE | — | cocaine — |
Ardillos 🎭 Cártel del Golfo
Ardillos
The Ardillos are a Mexican criminal organization involved in heroin trafficking and production, illegal mining, and the extortion of Indigenous communities and legal industries, including transportation a…
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| 2026-06-18 | ARREST | INSIGHTCRIME | South America | ⚪ NONE | — | — |
On the Radar: Criminal Shake-Ups in Ecuador and Venezuela as Colombia Votes on Security 🎭 Tren de Aragua
On the Radar: Criminal Shake-Ups in Ecuador and Venezuela as Colombia Votes on Security
Will the killing of Tren de Aragua founder Niño Guerrero have much impact on organized crime?
Does the capture of “Fito”…
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| 2026-06-18 | KINETIC_STRIKE | INSIGHTCRIME | South America | ⚪ NONE | — | — |
Could the ELN Be the Next Major Target in Venezuela? 🎭 Tren de Aragua
Could the ELN Be the Next Major Target in Venezuela?
After the US-Venezuela cooperation on the missile strike that killed the leader of Venezuela’s most feared gang, could Colombian guerrillas, who have long encam…
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| 2026-06-18 | INDICTMENT | INSIGHTCRIME | — | ⚪ NONE | — | — |
Pure Third Command Pure Third Command
The Pure Third Command (Terceiro Comando Puro – TCP) is Brazil’s third largest criminal group and the second most powerful gang in Rio de Janeiro. Its origins can be traced back to a split withi…
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