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Ontario man was arrested in Michigan yesterday after police say they seized $1.8 million worth of cocaine from his tractor-trailer. State troopers stopped the truck in Van Buren County, about 225 km west of Detroit, at 10 a.m. on Tuesday. A car that was believed to be travelling with the truck was also pulled over. Police say the truck driver, an Ontario man, allowed officers to search his cab. Inside, police say they found three large duffle bags with an estimated 63 kilograms of cocaine. The driver was taken into state custody, but has since...
24-year-old man has been arrested after police swooped on a house in Bicester and seized suspected heroin and cocaine.Police stopped and searched a man in the street in Reedmace Road, Bure Park, shortly after 4pm on Monday.Officers then searched a home in the same street and discovered money and a large amount of class A drugs.Police arrested a 24-year-old man on suspicion of possessing class A drugs with intent to supply who was bailed until May 23.Pc Richie Iwanoff said: "This is a significant arrest as we continue to tackle drug dealers in the...
Mario Alexander Boconovick-Urbina, 24, was sentenced Wednesday in Tucson for possession of marijuana after 1,120 pounds was found in his vehicle.The sentence stems from an incident Aug. 26, when Border Patrol agents tried to stop Boconovick-Urbina near Ajo, according to a news release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Arizona.Boconovick-Urbina refused to comply, and the agents lost sight of him, according to court documents. Other agents in the area were advised to be on the lookout for the pickup truck.About an hour later, agents found the truck...
"The suspect, identified as IK, 44, is suspected to be an accomplice of a drug ring trying to smuggle 7.2 kilograms of crystal methamphetamine into the country from Hong Kong," said head of investigation at the office, Eko Darmanto, as quoted by Tempointeraktif.com. Customs officers at the Soekarno-Hatta International Airport arrested Sunday a Taiwanese passenger for the alleged involvement in a recent foiled drug smuggling attempt, an officer said Monday.The customs officers last week arrested the two passengers who had hidden the drugs worth...
Police have broken one of the largest drug-trafficking rings operating in Greece after seizing more than 4 kilos of heroin in Athens, authorities said on Saturday.Police said they arrested three men, aged 19, 22 and 23, after an undercover police officer offered to buy a kilo of heroin for 11,000 euros.When the suspects arrived at the Kifissos KTEL bus station and attempted to sell the drugs, police moved in and made the arrests, a source said.During an inspection of the suspects’ home in Vyronas, eastern Athens, police uncovered the remaining...
Jaime Lopez, a 49-year-old Colombian national, and seized four bottles of liquor containing liquid heroin on Saturday.CBP officers selected Mr. Lopez for a baggage exam after he had arrived on a flight from Bogota, Colombia. Mr. Lopez presented one suitcase and a box of duty free liquor for inspection. After noticing that the liquid inside the four bottles of liquor appeared unusually thick, CBP officers opened the bottles and a glue-like smell permeated...
Customs officers have arrested five men at the airport for smuggling cannabis and cocaine worth $1.12 million into Hong Kong.On April 25 officers stopped four men arriving from India. They found 4kg of cannabis resin worth $288,000 concealed in men's shoes.The next day they inspected a man arriving from Ethiopia and found 1.47kg of cocaine worth $830,000 inside a concealed compartment in a suitcase.The five cases bring the total drug-smuggling detections at the airport since March 26, to ...
Large narcotics seizure at Pearson International Airport totaling close to $2.5 million.The seizure came April 13, Canada Border Services Agency officers the Commercial Operations unit intercepted more than 113 kilograms of marijuana and more than 10 kilograms of hashish. During a routine container examination, officers came across 10 boxes with the suspect narcotics. In total there were 54 marijuana bricks worth an estimated $2.2 million dollars and seven hashish bricks worth more than $200,000. The narcotics were wrapped in brown tape with...
Two of the Jamaicans are in custody at the Customs Anti Narcotics Unit (CANU) while the other was taken to a city hospital under police guard after officials suspected that he had swallowed some of the substance. Three Jamaican nationals were on Friday intercepted at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport with cocaine valued at US 20,000 dollars drug enforcement officials here have disclosed. Speaking to reporters here on Friday CANU prosecutor, Oswald Massaiah explained that around 6:30 Friday morning the three Jamaicans - one female and two...
Managing Director of Goodies Music Productions, Mr Isaac Abeidu Aidoo, has been arrested for allegedly attempting to smuggle pellets of cocaine to London.He was arrested while going through departure formalities at the Kotoka International Airport about 9:30 p.m. on Wednesday night.He was said to have requested to be allowed to commit suicide, since he could not bear the humiliation associated with the exposure in the media.He had allegedly swallowed...
Convicted drug smuggler Brian Brendon Wright was today ordered to pay a confiscation order of £2,311,371 following a hearing at Woolwich Crown Court. Wright, 61, who headed an international drugs smuggling gang, was jailed for 30 years in April 2007 having been found guilty of conspiracy to evade prohibition on the importation of a controlled drug and the conspiracy to supply drugs. His Honour Judge Peter Moss today told Wright that he would have to serve a consecutive 10 years default sentence if the money was not paid in 12 months.Robert Alder,...
Members of the coast guard have made arrests out at sea for the possession of illegal drugs. According to the Belize National Coast Guard yesterday while doing their frequent patrols in the Lighthouse Reef Atoll they came across a fishing vessel with the name “Yashi”. In the boat were seven fishermen from the village of Xunox in the Corozal district. When the officer conducted a search of the vessel they discovered what appeared to be cannabis stashed in the sail of the fishing vessel. Further searching led to the discovery of suspected...
Vickie Lynn King of Athens was pulled over for a loud muffler. The deputy said she was acting nervous, so he asked if King had anything illegal in the car. She said no, but the deputy said she consented to a search anyhow.A female officer with the Athens Police Department noted a strange bulge when patting King down for weapons. The deputy reports it turned out to be two large backs of crack cocaine, weighing 7 grams in all. The deputy also reported finding a crack pipe in the vehicle.King is charged with drug possession and possession for resale....
Authorities identified the five bus companies accused of taking part in the drug smuggling as Transtar, Neptune Tours, Los Primos, USA-Mex and Ameri-Mex.According to the indictment, the companies have offices in Monterrey, Mexico, Rio Grande City, Roma, San Antonio and Houston.A telephone number listed for USA-Mex was not working. Representatives with Los Primos did not immediately return a telephone call seeking comment. Attempts to reach the other...
Gardai have seized heroin worth €200,000 after carrying out a search of a premises in a Dublin business park. The search of the building in the Hillcrest Business Park, Greenhills Road, Walkinstown, Dublin 12 was carried out at about 3pm today by the South Central Crime Task Force under Operation Anvil, assisted by detectives and the National Drugs Unit. During the operation, 1kg of heroin and a number of other items were seized, including a trailer stolen in Duleek two years ago. No arrests were made, but gardai said investigations are contin...
A boat containing more than a dozen bundles of marijuana washed ashore in San Diego. Someone spotted the 18-foot vessel lodged in some rocks and called the U.S. Coast Guard.An 18-footer crashed onto the rocks at Sunset Cliffs. The marijuana was found but no people were around when investigators arrived. The boat broke apart and sank during the retrieval operation. The exact amount of marijuana found is unknown. Each bundle contained different amounts...
The US International Trade Commission (ITC) has initiated an investigation into counterfeit cigarettes and cigarette smuggling from seven countries, including Moldova. The investigation centers on whether several Internet-based cigarette retailers are selling imported cigarettes in the US that violate patents held by Philip Morris USAThe ITC investigation was requested by Philip Morris in early March, CNN reported, and could result in an order to ban cigarettes from the US that are found to violate patents held by the company.Philip Morris, is...
Former Petty Officer Christopher Carlson has also been formally dismissed from the navy for misconduct.In sentencing Carlson, Canada's chief military judge said the case was a prime example of blatant disregard of Canadian Forces drug policy and an absolute abdication by a non-commissioned officer of his roles and responsibilitiesBut the judge noted that there was no evidence that Carlson was ever involved in cocaine trafficking on board the HMCS Saskatoon, a charge that was dropped at the start of his court martial earlier this week,There was...
Vanessa Bedoya, 37, and Juan Bedoya, 38, both of the 1400 block of Green Oak Trail, Aurora, were charged with possession of a controlled substance with intent to deliver.Juan Meneses, 32, and Gonzalo Rodriguez-Jimenez, 38, both of the 800 block of Amli Court, Aurora, were charged with unlawful delivery of a controlled substance, the Kane County state's attorney's office said.According to prosecutors, on March 25, Rodriguez-Jimenez and Meneses delivered...
leather sofas, timber, even soft toys and lunch boxes hidden inside, millions of illegal cigarettes . Among the vast array of items which criminals try to smuggle through Birmingham Airport are guns and knives, animals, drugs, prescribed medicines and false passports. But it is illicit cigarettes, both genuine and counterfeit, which make up the bulk of the hauls seized by customs officers. On Friday, a hard-hitting campaign to warn smokers of the...
Police have found a cannabis grower, this time in a rented facility on the Bygdøy peninsula, where many of Oslo's most famous museums are located.Cannabis plants have been flourishing in southern Norway recently, and yet another illegal plantation has been found.The police suspect a Norwegian, who is unrelated to the mostly Vietnamese bands that have been discovered growing cannabis in southern Norway in recent months.About 50 plants and 100 saplings were found by inspectors for the civil defence force, who alerted the police, reported newswire...
Seizures of cannabis plants that could be used to produce hashish and marijuana were made on the island called Kråkerøy, just outside Fredrikstad, and at Kongsberg in Buskerud over the weekend.The raid on a house in Kongsberg resulted in the fourth seizure of what police are calling indoor "plantations" in just a week. Around 400 cannabis plants were found in the house, which was being rented out. A Vietnamese man was arrested at the scene, and was...
Special Narcotics indicted Edward Monsanto, Angel Perez-Baez, Juan Castro and Diogenis Gonzalez on Criminal Possession of a Controlled Substance in the First Degree subsequent to their arrest on February 18, 2008 and the seizure of 3½ kilograms of cocaine in Upper Manhattan. As a result of this collaborative investigation, Operation Ghost Rider resulted in the indictments of 27 individuals, the seizure of 4 kilograms of heroin, 10 decks of heroin, 3 ½ kilograms of cocaine, scales and drug packaging material, a .25 Caliber Beretta handgun, $31,000...
Two U.S. citizens in their sixties have been arrested in the Australian city of Perth on charges of attempting to smuggle 1,350 beetles out of the country, the West Australian newspaper said on Thursday.The discovery followed an anonymous phone call to a customs hotline.Customs officers in Perth International Airport found some 1,000 tiger beetles, a regulated native species banned from export without a permit, in the luggage of a 62 year-old U.S. tourist. The insects were packed in glass vials hidden inside yoghurt containers.During questioning...
Police in Vietnam have arrested two people for smuggling two disemboweled tiger carcasses, a police official said Friday. The local Environmental Police arrested the owners of two houses in Ninh Binh province, 100 kilometers south of Hanoi, on Wednesday after finding two frozen tigers there, said Tran Quoc To, a senior department official. The carcasses, weighing 265 and 245 kilograms, were hidden in refrigerators."The houses are only the transit points for the animal smugglers," To said. "Further investigation is under way to find out where the...
John Paul Jones was arrested in Thailand after a doctor allegedly discovered 65 plastic bags filled with $31,608 in hashish in his stomach, police said.John Paul Jones, 51, was visiting the island of Ko Samui when he was rushed to the hospital after complaining of severe stomach pain, the Bangkok Post reported.An X-ray of Jones's intestine showed a sausage-like string of objects that were surgically removed and identified as 800 grams of hashish."Before the operation, Mr Jones looked nervous and asked whether police would be notified. We found...
Customs officers discovered the drugs, said to be 70 per cent pure, as they were being sent through the post from Brazil.cocaine with an estimated street value of up to £400,000 destined for the streets of the West Midlands has been found in bottles of cosmetics. Customs officers discovered the drugs, said to be 70 per cent pure, as they were being sent through the post from Brazil.Devious drugs smugglers had used a chemical process to suspend the cocaine in the cosmetics in an attempt to get the drugs onto the region's streets.But suspicious officers...
Narcotics officers have seized heroin worth $2.5 million at Changi Airport and have arrested a woman and two men, the Government-run radio said today. The woman was arrested at the airport Friday with five pounds of heroin strapped to her body as she was about to board a plane for the United States, and the men were arrested later, the radio said. Officials said all were Singaporea...
Three suspects are in custody, police said, naming Hezi Serbero, 57, the notorious smuggling ringleader who served a previous seven year prison sentence for attempting to smuggle ecstasy pills out of Holland, Mordechai Hirsch, 67, and sea vessel company owner Moshe Keder, 81, described by police as their oldest drug smuggler in custody to date. Keder was the owner of the tugboat which set sail around the globe, with police agents following close...
Hans Kristian Rausing was held at his mansion after his wife was allegedly caught trying to smuggle drugs into the US embassy.American-born Eva Rausing, daughter of a wealthy Pepsi boss, was arrested as she arrived for a function just after 4pm on Tuesday.Security guards asked to search her bag and are said to have discovered the drugs wrapped in paper.As Mrs Rausing, 44, was taken to Charing Cross police station, officers raided her £5million home...
The police said 121 people had been crammed inside an airtight seafood container late Wednesday night that measured just 20 feet long and 7 feet wide. Survivors said they had shouted and banged on the sides of the sweltering container as they began to collapse from lack of air. Fifty four migrant workers from Myanmar suffocated in the back of a sealed truck in southern Thailand as they were being smuggled into the country to work as illegal laborers, the Thai police said Thursday. Col. Kraithong Chanthongbai, the local police commander in Ranong...
Inspectors of Dubai Customs have succeeded in aborting an attempt to smuggle heroin through Terminal 1 in Dubai International Airport.According to a statement from the Customs, the inspectors grew suspicious of a passenger who arrived from an Asian country due to his behaviour. A scan conducted on him revealed a number of capsules in his stomach.The passenger admitted he swallowed 137 capsules containing heroin. He was offered a big amount of money to smuggle the heroin into the U...
Notable users include President-elect Dmitry Medvedev, billionaire Alexander Mamut and Boris Yeltsin Jr, grandson of the former president, according to the newspaper Kommersant. iPhones are not sold by Cupertino, California-based Apple in Russia and it can’t be used legally on local networks. Still, about 250,000 people own one, more than any other country except the U.S. and China, according to Eldar Murtazin, chief analyst at Moscow-based Mobile...
Faisal Ali Rao, 26, Mumtaza Hussein, 33, Siddiq Ahmed, 43 and 64-year-old Said Attar Hussein were observed “behaving suspiciously” at the airport on 29 March.They have been arrested in a joint operation between customs and police as they attempted to smuggle drugs via the Maldives to Tanzania.The four from Pakistan were arrested on 29 March at Malé’s Hulhule International Airport, having swallowed a total of 189 capsules of heroin between them. Information...
Senior police officers have been grilled for their alleged roles in illegal logging in West Kalimantan province on the Indonesian portion of Borneo island, local media reports said Wednesday.National police chief General Sutanto had vowed to take legal action against any police officer involved in illegal logging or log smuggling in the country.‘We want to deal with illegal logging activities conclusively. Whoever is suspected to be involved will be investigated,’ the state-run Antara news agency quoted Sutanto as saying.At least 14 police officers...
Bashir Noorzai, an Afghan tribal leader, was arrested in 2005 and charged with smuggling more than $50 million worth of heroin into the United States. U.S. authorities have called him one of the world's most wanted drug traffickers and compared him to Colombian cocaine trafficker Pablo Escobar.Noorzai's lawyer denied his client was a drug dealer and argued the charges should be dismissed because U.S. government officials duped him into believing...
Indian was among three persons nabbed by the British police in connection with the biggest ever seizure of heroin worth 15 to 20 million pounds, police said on Sunday.The Indian man was identified as 30-year old Harminder Chana, who was taken into custody by the Metropolitan police.Apart from Chana, Pakistani-origin Atif Khan (31) and Dutchman Patrick Kuster (35) were arrested over the seizure of 350 kgs of heroin valued at 15 to 20 million pounds.The specialist crime central task force seized the huge quantity heroin from two cars at a motorway...
Iranian security forces have killed 12 drug smugglers and seized 500kg of narcotics in two operations near the border with Afghanistan, state media says.The drug traffickers were killed near the city of Taibad in Khorasan Razavi province in the last 48 hours, the official IRNA news agency said, without elaborating.Iran is on the heroin smuggling route to the West from Afghanistan, the world's number one producer of the opium poppy which is the key ingredient for heroin.More than 3,300 Iranian security personnel have died fighting drug smugglers...
Ricardo Lopez-Balli, 38, of Bradenton, Fla., was charged with possession of drugs, aggravated trafficking in drugs, driving without a valid license, and cited for following too closely.Roberto Cortez, 33, of San Benito, Texas, was charged with possession of drugs and aggravated trafficking in drugs.Salvador DeLaCruz, 37, of 3825 Peru St., was charged with complicity to traffic drugs.All three were being held in the Lucas County jail in lieu of a $1 million bond.A state trooper stopped a car being driven by Mr. DeLaCruz about 3:30 p.m. Thursday...
Turkish security forces seized 400 kilogrammes (880 pounds) of heroin hidden in vats of olives on a truck headed for Europe, the Anatolia news agency reported on Sunday.The truck was detained at the Kapikule border post with Bulgaria after investigators became aware of the imminent transfer of the shipment on Wednesday, the report said.Sniffer dogs found the drug hidden in containers of olives. Investigators had been monitoring the olive exporting company for several months, according to the Turkish news agency.Turkey is a major transit point for...
Turkish security forces seized 108 kg of heroin in two operations staged in eastern province of Van, the semi-official Anatolia news agency reported on Sunday. The report said the security forces stopped a truck in Balaban village in Gevas town of Van province and found 70 kg heroin. In another operation, Turkish security forces seized 38 kg heroin and two kg morphine in a minibus in Zernek village in Gurpinar town in the same province, said the report. The security forces detained the truck driver and minibus driver in the two operations, said...
Police in Massachusetts have seized 185 pounds of cocaine from a tractor-trailer truck in the city of Lynn, authorities say.The Essex County District Attorney's Office said in a news release that the county's drug task force, working in conjunction with federal authorities, seized the drugs during an unloading operation this weekend, the Boston Herald reported Sunday.Essex County District Attorney Jon Blodgett credited everyone involved with Saturday's raid, which reportedly followed a lengthy undercover narcotics operation."It was a multistate,...
Mexican soldiers looking for drug traffickers found $6 million in cash inside a truck near the U.S. border and arrested five men at the scene, the army said on Friday.Army drug squads in the northern state of Tamaulipas, a smuggling hot spot over the border from Texas, found the U.S. currency stuffed into eight suitcases as they inspected a tractor trailer and smaller truck parked along a highway.They also found four pistols, the army said in a statement.Army and federal police units deployed in President Felipe Calderon's 15-month-old crackdown...
4,800 cartons of illegal cigarettes, many packaged in counterfeit red du Maurier cartons and packages. "Sophisticated," is the word investigators used to describe the operation. But finding this hidden shipment was just the start of the investigation. The officers put everything back in place, sealed up the container and on it went -- woks, dishes and illegal smokes -- by train to Toronto. The RCMP was contacted, search warrants were applied for and the sting was on. When five people arrived at the Toronto CN Rail yard last week to pick up the...
Police have seized around 2 kilograms (4.4 lbs) of heroin in two separate incidents in the Urals city of Yekaterinburg, local police said on Wednesday.A Tajik national was initially detained carrying 15 grams of heroin, but later gave police information about another 1.2 kilograms (2.6 lbs) he had been keeping in the cellar of a city center store. He said his acquaintances had asked him to keep the drugs. Police discovered another 0.5 kg of heroin in the possession of a train passenger. The 22-year-old woman was arrested and taken of the train....
