Drug and Crime
Liberia: How South American Cartels Found a New Home on West Africa’s Coastline
Monrovia- For a few years after 2010, West Africa was, in the words of officials who fought to make it so, a…
Drug and Crime
Drug and Crime
Liberia: LDEA Arrests Woman with US$400 Worth of Marijuana at Karloken Checkpoint in Maryland County
HARPER, Maryland County — The Liberia Drug Enforcement Agency (LDEA) has arrested a Liberian woman with four plates of marijuana valued at approximately…
Analysis
Liberia: A Mystery Vessel, a Prison, and a Warning Nobody Answered
MONROVIA — There is a version of this story in which the boat behind the Monrovia Central Prison is nothing more than…
Breaking News
BREAKING: Second Mystery Vessel Seized in Liberia, Two Foreign Nationals Held Amid Drug Probe
Liberia’s joint security forces are in control of yet another mysterious vessel — this time docked behind the Monrovia Central Prison —…
Drug and Crime
Liberia: McGill Rejects Costa’s Drug Cartel Allegation, Demands Evidence
Monrovia — Senator Nathaniel F. McGill has strongly rejected allegations by political commentator Henry Pedro Costa seeking to link him to an…
Drug and Crime
Liberia: Pres. Boakai Sacks Justice Minister, Solicitor General Amid $336M Cocaine Bust Probe
Monrovia — President Joseph Nyuma Boakai has removed Justice Minister and Attorney General Cllr. N. Oswald Tweh and Solicitor General Cllr. Augustine…
Drug and Crime
Liberia: In US$19m Cocaine Case: 10 Indicted Over 200kg Haul, US$100k Bribe Plot
MONROVIA — A Montserrado County Grand Jury has indicted 10 defendants in connection with the alleged trafficking of a 200-kilogram cocaine shipment…
Drug and Crime
One Woman, half a Billion Dollars: The Question Liberia’s Drug Investigation hasn’t Answered
As former President George Weah touches down in Monrovia, the two record-breaking drug busts that started this saga — nearly half a…
Legal Issues
Liberia: Ex-VP Jewel Howard Taylor’s Drug Case Delayed as Defense Seeks Medical Records, Cardiologist
MONROVIA — The preliminary hearing in the government’s drug trafficking and money laundering case against former Vice President Jewel Howard Taylor has been…
Drug and Crime
Liberian Statesman Intensifies Call for Police Inspector General to Recuse Himself From US$317M Cocaine Investigation
Monrovia – United States-based Liberian statesman and Pleasantville City Council member, James D. Barclay, has intensified his call for Liberia’s Inspector General of Police,…