drug seizure
Police narcotics haul
A drug seizure is the confiscation of illegal drugs by law enforcement authorities.
The term refers both to the act of seizing and to the quantity seized: The drug seizure netted fifty kilos of cocaine.
News reports often use the term to quantify enforcement efforts: Border agents made their largest drug seizure of the year.
- bustFailure or sculpture
- contrabandProhibited trade goods
- raidSudden armed incursion
- confiscationSeizure by authority
- controlled substanceLegally regulated intoxicant or medication
narcotics · customs · trafficking · cocaine · heroin · street value · border · border patrol · arrest · cartel · smuggling · evidence · evidence locker · kilos · stash · hidden compartment · intercepted · law enforcement
- drug incidentsoverdose, trafficking, fatal overdose, heroin overdose, sting operation
- interdictionsinterdiction, blockade, naval blockade, blockades, embargo
- crime investigationdetective, whodunit, investigation, detectives, investigator
- border controlvisa requirements, passport control, guard, border crossing, border security
- forfeitureforfeiture, civil forfeiture, asset forfeiture, confiscation, asset freeze