An Albanian drug kingpin with a lavish lifestyle was sentenced for plotting with a Detroit-area businessman to build a cocaine-smuggling submarine that helped power a multimillion-dollar narcotics ...

At least seven narco subs have been discovered in Pacific waters in recent years, signalling a troubling new reality.

Authorities are warning that increasingly sophisticated narco subs are being used to move multi-tonne cocaine shipments across the Pacific, with Australia a prime target due to its high drug prices.