Cocaine isn't just smuggled by speedboats and drug mules. For decades the cartels have built something much bigger...

In the late 1990s, the cartels changed the game, constructing a floating supply chain that crisscrossed the ocean with tonnes of cocaine.

Then came the tip-off no one believed. A young Drugs Liaison Officer uncovered intelligence so explosive his bosses thought he’d been reading too many spy novels.

They were wrong.

What came next was a secret maritime campaign combining military aircraft, special forces, submarines, warships, and uneasy alliances with Spain and the U.S.

This is how the drug war moved from the skies to the sea.

Host: Lindsay Charlton
Insiders: Phil Matthews, Graham Honey, Martin Dubbey and Mike Gough Cooper

Narco Warriors is a true crime podcast featuring real stories from law enforcement veterans who fought international drug trafficking, organised crime, and global criminal networks.

New episodes every Monday at 6am GMT.

Frankie the Strangler was one of the most feared Mafia assassins. A ruthless enforcer with alleged links to powerful crime families.

But British Customs and Excise found him hiding in plain sight in a quiet English village.

This episode reveals how UK Customs unknowingly arrested a Mafia godfather who slipped into Britain under the radar. What started as a routine operation became one of the most extraordinary organised crime stories in law enforcement history.

And if you ever find a dead blackbird under your doormat, you’re in trouble…

These are the Narco Warriors.

Host: Lindsay Charlton
Insiders: Jim "Trapper" Jarvie & Phil Matthews

Narco Warriors is a true crime podcast featuring real stories from law enforcement veterans who fought international drug trafficking, organised crime, and global criminal networks.

New episodes every Monday at 6 a.m. GMT.

You thought your first week at work was bad? How about turning up unarmed to a gunfight…

It was meant to be a routine bust on a Caribbean beach. It ended with machine-gun fire and a dead body. This is Barbados in the 1980s. A tropical paradise on the surface, but part of a vast drug smuggling network.

Former UK Customs officer Graham Honey takes us inside two of the most dangerous postings of the global drug war: Barbados and Miami.

From a gunfight on his second day, to tracking cocaine routes stretching from Venezuela to London, we reveal how quickly operations can spiral and how international drug enforcement really works when the shooting starts.

These are the Narco Warriors.

New episodes every Monday.
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Host: Lindsay Charlton
Insiders: Graham Honey & Phil Matthews