U.S. Coast Guard authorities seized four smugglers and seven tons of cocaine with an estimated street value of $8.4 million.

The cache was seized aboard a stateless, self-propelled, semi-submersible vessel about 350 miles west of Guatemala in the waters of the Eastern Pacific Ocean on Saturday.

A Catholic priest on the University of Illinois campus has pleaded not guilty to charges that he was selling cocaine from his church office and rectory at St. John's Catholic Newman Center.

Rev. Christopher Layden was arrested after police searched those locations and found about three grams of cocaine and drug paraphernalia, including a scale, according to reports.

A British politician had a scare recently when armed Colombian soldiers mistakenly took his powdered coffee-mate to be raw cocaine.

Michael Fabricant, 58, who represents the Staffordshire constituency of Lichfield and Burntwood, was on a trekking vacation in South America when he and his friend ran into a group of soldiers in the jungle. The gun-wielding militants searched their belongings and found an unlabeled jar of powdered coffee creamer.

Two Spanish chemists have found that U.S. dollar bills contained the highest traces of cocaine powder, indicating the popularity of the illegal drug.

The study by Sergio Armenta and Miguel de la Guardia from the University of Valencia published in the latest issue of the journal Trends in Analytical Chemistry also found that Spanish euro notes are the most contaminated with the drug among European currencies.

Police in Toronto have seized up to 2,000 stolen bicycles from a theft ring they busted last week but the huge find has prompted authorities to look for a temporary impound area.

The police garage is not big enough to store and display some 1,000 recovered bikes so the search for a bigger space where owners can go and claim their bicycles is on, according to Superintendent Ruth White as cited by CBC.ca Tuesday.