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Anti-drug police at Peru’s "Jorge Chávez" international airport in Lima have had their hands full over the last year, arresting nearly two "mules" a day, each carrying an average of five kg of pure cocaine.In 2005, 249 "mules" or drug couriers were arrested. In 2006 there were 454 arrests, and last year the number rose to 721, carrying a total of nearly four tons of cocaine, the police National Anti-Drug Directorate told IPS. The usual method is...
The world's cheapest cocaine is processed across the border from El Cruce in Colombia's Catatumbo region, using cheap Venezuelan gasoline, U.S. and Colombian anti-drug and military officials say.Venezuela Leftist rebels fighting Colombia's U.S.-backed military have increasingly found refuge in Venezuela, where they get weapons, food, medical treatment and a smuggling route for the cocaine that keeps them afloat.Former rebels, local citizens and Colombian officials told The Associated Press that hundreds or even thousands of Colombian insurgents...
Police here and elsewhere throughout the country say that drug smugglers are disguising themselves as music stars and driving large tour buses on Tennessee highways and across the country’s interstates.Police on Thursday night observed a tour bus that was driving reckless and upon making a traffic stop found more than $1.5 million hidden in fake speakers in the bus traveling on Interstate 75 north of Chattanooga.The bus which was originally pulled...
Passengers travelling on domestic flights or between European Union countries could have to hand over up to 19 pieces of information including their credit card details and mobile phone number.The proposal is revealed in a draft of EU anti-terror plans that would cover every air passenger entering or leaving EU countries seen by the Guardian.It reports that Britain wants to extend the plan to include sea and rail travel, all domestic flights and those between EU countries.The Home Office says a pilot of the passenger name record system has already...
Assassins blasted Ricardo Rosas Alvarado, a member of an elite state police force, with a blizzard of bullets pumped out of AK-47 assault rifles. Alvarado crumpled at the wheel of his sedan, yet another victim of the weapons known here as "goat's horns" because of their curved ammunition clips, and which can fire at a rate of 600 rounds per minute. The killing, Mexican authorities said, was a panorama of blood, shattered glass and torn metal that...
Alice English was charged with smuggling fully 2.8 kilograms of marijuana, as well as crack, cocaine, hashish, cellphones and pornography into the Bordeaux jail. She copped to it in videotaped testimony this week, but said she only did it once, and only because inmates had threatened her children—and she added that other guards must have been complicit in the arrangement, since there was no other way inmates could have known such details. Pierre-Arold...
Gregory Todd Holland, 22, of 17 Elmhurst Drive, was arrested on a charge of dealing cocaine, a Class A felony. He is being held in the Wayne County Jail on a bond of $50,000.Terrill Montez Holland, 22, also of 17 Elmhurst Drive, was arrested on a charge of possession of cocaine, a Class D felony. He was released on bonds of $15,205. Police said the men are brothers.Also, authorities said they recovered 9.9 grams of cocaine.John Burnett, who was driving the vehicle, was arrested on a charge of maintaining a common nuisance, a Class D felony. He...
Nicole Paquette’s arrest in 2006 led to what police Chief John Romero called the area’s largest cocaine bust.Police found 21 kilograms of cocaine in boxes in Paquette’s rental van and another 30 kilos in a Methuen home, which combined Romero said had a street value of $2.5 million.Paquette’s lawyer argued that his client had only a "minimal role" in the drug operation and did not know whether the closed, unmarked boxes contained cocaine or marijuana.The trial of co-defendant Angel Ayala Roque is scheduled to start next mon...
Sumner County attorney found himself on the other side of the law for allegedly trying to smuggle drugs into the jail.Investigators said Jocelyn Mims conspired with an inmate to pick up a plastic cup full of drugs from a road pull-off, and bring it to the jail. hough authorities got word of the plan, and found the cup at the drop-off site. Inside the cup, police found Zanax, marijuana, and tobacco.Mims has also worked as a public defender in Sumner Coun...
The drug traffickers were caught after police bugged the ringleader's fleet of luxury cars. Recep Yilmaz, 67, was caught boasting of his profits of up to £100,000 a week from the smuggling ring which shipped the class A drug in bulk from Europe.A Hastings man was part of an international drug smuggling ring which planned to flood the streets of Britain with £7 million of heroin, the Old Bailey has heard. Sean Harrison, 41, of Hilly Glen Close, who organised the heroin on the continent, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to supply class A drugs earlier...
One of the Bali Nine has spoken publicly for the first time on the electronic media about his situation and his hopes of being able to leave a Bali jail, despite that fact that he faces the death penalty.Scott Rush, who was arrested on drug trafficking charges in Indonesia, has spoken to SBS Television from his prison cell.He says he never realised the implications that his actions could have, or that it was even possible to be executed for smuggling heroin.Donna Field reports.DONNA FIELD: These are dark days for Scott Rush. The 22-year-old from...
An express mail package from Puerto Rico that contained about 2 pounds of cocaine was seized by deputies and its Polk County recipient was arrested Wednesday, according to Sheriff's Office reports. Victor Encarnacion, 30, of Kissimmee was arrested and charged with trafficking cocaine over 200 grams, reports said.The package, addressed to Ariel Mendez at 739 Caribou Drive in Kissimmee, was flagged by postal inspectors in Puerto Rico as being suspicious and forwarded to the USPS Postal Inspectors in Orlando, reports said.A federal search warrant...
