Author: Erin Elizabeth

A ship with more than $1 billion in cocaine aboard – that was seized in Philadelphia on the Fourth of July – is owned by financial giant JPMorgan Chase, according to reports. U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) announced on Monday that they discovered nearly 20 tons of cocaine — or nearly 40,000 pounds — inside several shipping containers aboard the MSC Gayane while it was docked in Philadelphia’s seaport on June 17. The agency said an estimated $1.3 billion worth of cocaine was removed from the ship — making it the largest cocaine seizure EVER carried out by...

UPDATE: An American scientist whose body was discovered in a cave several days after she went missing on the island of Crete was asphyxiated, police said Wednesday. Police in Greece say they have opened a homicide investigation in the death of Suzanne Eaton, 59, according to Eaton’s employer, the Max Planck Institute at Dresden University in Germany. Eaton’s body was found on Monday, the institute said. Eaton, who worked as a biologist, had been attending a conference at the Orthodox Academy in northwest Crete when she is believed to have disappeared during a run on July 2. The institute...