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Customs officers at Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport have intercepted a machine that makes pellets of cocaine which can be swallowed for smuggling. The machine was found in the luggage of three Bulgarians. The three were caught with fake passports and plane tickets attempting to smuggle the machine onto a flight to the Dominican Republic. The customs officers think the Bulgarians were trying to set up a new smuggling route between the Dominican Republic and the Netherlands.Strict checks on flights from Surinam and the Netherlands Antilles have forced...
Riaz Mohammed, used a string of front companies to ship the highly addictive narcotic from Turkey.The Court heard the "sophisticated" operation involved hiding half-kilo packages of the Class A substance in the hollowed out struts of wooden pallets. But despite the gang's best efforts each of the three importations - two to Dover docks and one which arrived at Heathrow airport - were intercepted during an investigation by the Serious Organised Crime Agency (Soca).Altogether 24kg of the drug - with an estimated street value of £2.3 million - was...
Police arrested two African men for possessing and peddling heroin. Dubai Police’s Criminal Investigation Department (CID) received a tip-off that a suspect, identified as A.B., possessed heroin. An undercover police officer offered to buy the heroin for Dh7,000 for every one kilogram. The suspect also showed the officer a sample. Police kept the suspect under surveillance and set up a trap to arrest him. On the day of the narcotics delivery, the two suspects arrived at the location with a bag. During the delivery, the police arrested them and...
The untouchables, an elite band of Australian Federal Police, some of whom insiders say were no better than "gangsters with police badges". Their headquarters were Redfern's landmark TNT twin towers, where extramarital conquests and drunken "happy hour" parties were common. It was the 1980s and, as one former officer of the 35-strong AFP Sydney drug investigation unit recalls, it was like "living inside a grubby episode of Miami Vice ". Memories of the heady days of the twin tower crew have been revived because of the charges laid against one of...
The police have arrested a number of persons after wrapping up two investigations into the importation and trafficking on heroin and cannabis resin.A 28-year-Hungarian who arrived in Malta from Brussels on Tuesday was tailed by the police and was stopped on Wednesday when he boarded a vehicle driven by a 28-year-old Maltese woman from Qormi. Both were held. A search revealed that the man was carrying a capsule with heroin inside, the police said. A medical examination at Mater Dei Hospital revealed a further 30 capsules in his stomach. In all,...
Daniel Bailey (35) avoided prison when he received a 26-week suspended sentence after pleading guilty to producing cannabis.But following a separate investigation into his finances by police, he has been told to pay up £194,370 by a court. If he fails to hand over the money within six months, he will face a three-year jail term.During a hearing brought by police under the Proceeds of Crime Act, Lincoln Crown Court was told officers swooped on Bailey's...
Azerbaijani Ministry of National Security and the State Customs Committee removed over 41kg of heroin from illegal turnover, which had been smuggled to the country from Iran. It was planned to smuggle the heroin onwards to Europe. According to both structures, Turkish citizens Chengiz Cheftchi, Mehmet Baligchioglu and others smuggled a huge amount of heroin from Iran to Azerbaijan for sale. Cheftchi officially brought construction materials to Iran in a Volvo truck to further transport them to Kazakhstan. Baligchioglu instructed Cheftchi by phone...
Ashley Nicole Simmons, 22 of Lusby, the driver of the vehicle and charged her with possession of heroin, possession of drug paraphernalia, a syringe, used to inject heroin into the body.Two passengers in the vehicle were also found to be in possession of drugs. Katie Michelle Warren, 23 of Hollywood, was arrested and charged with possession of heroin and possession of drug paraphernalia, a syringe.The front passenger, Elijah James Arneson, 28 of Lusby, was also arrested and charged with possession of heroin and possession of drug paraphernalia,...
God Lucky Howard, 39, described in jail records as a mortgage broker, was arrested by Tampa police on one count each of delivery of cocaine within 1,000 feet of a church, a school and public housing; one count each of delivery of cocaine with intent to sell within 1,000 feet of a church, a school and public housing; and two counts of possession of cocaine. he arrest stems from two previous incidents, according to a criminal report affidavit. On April 28, police bought 3.4 grams of cocaine from him out of a home at 3812 N. Avon Ave., according to...
Recovered a record quantity of cocaine during a drugs seizure last week in Stroud.The raid took place in the early hours of Wednesday, June 18, as officers discovered two kilograms of the Class A drug at a location in Ebley. The seizure follows continued proactive operations on the division targeting class A drug supply.The quantity of cocaine recovered, which has a street value of £80,000, represents the largest ever seizure of the drug in the Stroud area. 28 year-old man from Stonehouse was subsequently arrested on suspicion of supplying a class...
Drug agents in the Bronx have arrested four men and seized $16 million worth of cocaine hidden in a tractor-trailer truck, authorities said Monday.The 400 pounds of cocaine was hidden in a hollow steel band around the cargo floor of the 16-wheeler, Special Narcotics Prosecutor Bridget Brennan said.The packages were heavily wrapped in duct tape -- an apparent attempt to avoid detection by drug sniffing dogs, Brennan said. Agents spent 10 hours searching the truck before an X-ray device disclosed the hiding place.Brennan said the truck has California...
Three men from Rotterdam and Amstelveen have been arrested in connection with plans to smuggle more than 2,200 kilos of cocaine from Brazil to the Netherlands, news agency ANP reports on Friday. The men, aged 38, 53 and 60, were picked up after raids on homes across the country. More than €100,000 in cash, a gun, computers and paperwork were also seiz...
British woman’s bulging wig did not fool customs agents in Norway who realized she wasn’t just having a bad hair day. The wig was concealing 2.2 pounds of cocaine glued to her head and customs agents detained her on suspicion of cocaine smuggling, authorities said Wednesday.The 32-year-old suspect, whose name was withheld, arrived late Sunday at Vaernes airport near the city of Trondheim on a flight from Copenhagen, Denmark, the customs service said.“The agent thought she had a great deal of hair and suspected that she was wearing a wig,” the agency...
68-year-old woman is facing drug charges after she allegedly hid cocaine and marijuana in her wig to smuggle to her son in Kingston Penitentiary.In May, Correctional Service Canada began an investigation after receiving information that identified a woman who had agreed to supply her son with drugs while he was in jail.The woman’s 40-year-old son is serving a life sentence for numerous armed robberies, police said.Police said the woman was arrested when she left her home around 6:20 a.m. Saturday. When officers searched her, they turned up 26 grams...
"This morning [Saturday], we found 18 pounds of compressed ganja in one of the bathrooms at the Norman Manley International Airport. On Friday, we found another 40 pounds of compressed ganja in two buckets, inside one of the bathrooms," head of the Narcotics Division, Senior Superintendent Carlton Wilson, told The Sunday Gleaner yesterday.SSP Wilson added that, on Friday afternoon, the police found a quantity of drugs at one of the warehouses at the Kingston airport."We believe some of the drugs was liquified cocaine. We arrested a man at the Norman...
Deborah Donde and Emily Gathoni were arrested by Malaysian police on suspicion of drug trafficking after they were found in a room in which four kilos of marijuana were seized. Arrest of two Kenyan university students in Malaysia and the sentencing to life of another student in China are an indication of how serious drug trafficking has become.The two Kenyan students, one a daughter of a former MP, were arrested along with a Saudi and an Eritrean in an apartment in Cyberjaya near Kuala Lumpur.The former MP’s daughter was released for lack of evidence.Twenty-six-year-old...
Dutch businessman, charged with money laundering related to drug trafficking, and a banker accused of helping him, are to stand trial at Dubai’s Court of First Instance. The man, identified only by his initials AK, was charged with laundering dhs60 million through bank accounts in the UAE, according to the Head of Dubai Public Prosecution, Attorney General Issam Al-Humaidan.The Arabic female banker, MA, was accused of receiving commission to facilitate the transactions. The businessman, who owns two Dubai-registered companies, has admitted laundering...
Canadian man will face a Sydney court today, accused of trying to import more than 150 grams of cocaine into Australia.Customs officers stopped the 45-year-old at Sydney Airport on Saturday after he got off a plane from DubaiThey suspected he was hiding drugs inside his body and called federal police, who took him to hospital.A scan showed he was hiding 58 packages of cocaineHe will face Central Local Court tod...
Dain Cummings pleaded guilty to possession of 675 grammes and was fined $20,000.Cummings pleaded not guilty to drug trafficking, possession with intent to transfer and importation of the illegal drugs. All of these charges were withdrawn.He was reprimanded and discharged on the importation charge.Pansy Lindsey, who came in on the same flight as Cummings, and was caught with 650 grammes of cannabis, received a similar sentence.The court heard that on Tuesday 10 June, Cummings arrived in Antigua at the V.C. Bird International Airport on board Caribbean...
Gardaí have uncovered a multi-million euro drug trafficking ring believed to be run by a man in prison.Three men were arrested in Dublin yesterday evening following the seizure of €5m worth of heroin.Gardaí are describing the arrests as significant. Drug-dealing is big business in prison, making a prison conviction a good career move At 5pm, officers from the Organised Crime Unit and the National and Clondalkin Drugs Units raided a storage company in Clondalkin and discovered 20kg of heroin worth €4m.A 24-year-old Polish man was arrested there...
Police have launched a manhunt for survivors - believed to be players in the trafficking of drugs - who fled the scene of a plane crash in Clarendon early yesterday morning. The cops theorise that a plane transporting drugs tried to land at an airstrip near the Rocky Point port, which is used by bauxite company Jamalco, got into difficulties and crashed into mangroves close to the Salt River community. The aircraft then burst into flames.According to the police, when they arrived at the site of the crash, they were unable to capture the fleeing...
17-year-old British girl has been arrested in Lima after allegedly trying to smuggle 3.7 kilos of cocaine out of Peru. The teenager, who was travelling alone and gave her name as Sophie Charlotte Lane, was intercepted as she tried to board a KLM flight to Amsterdam. Police stopped her after spotting 'a suspicious stain' on one of her bags as it passed through an X-ray machine at the Jorge Chavez International airport. She has reportedly told police she had a connecting flight from Amsterdam to Madrid and had been asked to deliver the bag to the...
R2.5 million worth of cocaine has been confiscated at Johannesburg and Cape Town’s main airports, police said.Spokesman Captain Dennis Adriao said a shipment of motorcycle parts was searched at Johannesburg’s OR Tambo International Airport following a tip-off.“When we cut open the parts, bags of cocaine with a street value of R1.5 million was found. The shipment was coming from Sao Paulo in Brazil and was headed for Kinshasa in the Democratic Republic of Congo,” he said.No arrests had been made.On Wednesday a 28-year-old Gauteng woman was arrested...
Two men suspected of arranging and taking part in the transport of 381 kilograms of cocaine from Colombia have been detained in Croatia. The shipment, destined for western Europe, was discovered in a joint action by Croatian and neighbouring Slovenian police in the Slovenian port town of Koper.It was hidden in a container ordered by a Croatian company and arriving on board a ship from the Italian port of Gioia Tauro.The two have been detained for 48 hours and Zagreb Jutranji List daily said there were more suspects they were looking for.The daily...
young woman has been charged with transporting drugs inside her body after landing at Sydney airport from America.The Australian Customs Service today said its officers stopped and searched the woman on Sunday after she arrived on a flight from Los Angeles.During their search, the customs officers became suspicious she might be concealing drugs inside her body and referred her to the Australian Federal Police, who took her to hospital for an internal examination.She was found to have 40 pellets containing a total of 400g of cocaine in her stomach.A...
Reynaldo Zuniga, a 34-year-old Border Patrol agent from Harlingen, was paid to pick up one of the men along the Rio Grande and then drive him to a fast food restaurant in Hidalgo, where the other man would pick him up, the U.S. Attorney's Office said Monday.Zuniga, Luis Alfredo Cruz, 29, and Jose Luis Arteaga, 24, were arrested early Saturday morning, said Border Patrol spokesman Ricardo Rosas.All three men remained in federal custody. At their first court appearance Monday, Cruz and Arteaga — both of whom are both from Reynosa, Mexico — requested...
$80 million worth of drugs allegedly smuggled inside fibreglass foot spas have been seized in Port Melbourne.Customs and Australian Federal Police monitored the sea cargo, which arrived in Melbourne from Canada on June 5. X-rays allegedly revealed 124kg of cocaine - believed to have originated from South America - 66kg of methylamphetamines and 121kg of MDMA inside the bases of 13 foot spas. AFP agents monitored the delivery of the spas to a Braybrook address, in Melbourne's west, and raided four premises overnight, arresting four people. They...
Federal prosecutors say that the final drug and immigrant smuggling run of a Bahamian sea captain known as "Tricks" came to an end in the churning surf off Jupiter Island when he forced 10 passengers to jump from his idling speedboat. Moments later, the twin-engine boat ran aground on the rocky shore in the dark early morning of Dec. 28, 2006. Not far from the boat, police later found the body of a 64-year-old Jamaican man with an orange life vest twisted around his neck and a black duffel bag containing 83 pounds of marijuana.The murder and drug...
Middlesbrough woman, her partner and a 17-yerar-old girl have been arrested in Jamaica suspected of attempting to smuggle drugs.The three were arrested at the Sangster international airport in Montego Bay on June 8th by the Jamaican authorities.Police claim the two women were caught attempting to smuggle cocaine internally and all three are suspected of swallowing packages of cocaine before boarding a flight back to Manchester.The trio were arrested as part of Operation Airbridge, a UK Border Agency initiative working in partnership with the Jamaican...
Luis Antonio "Flaco" Ramirez, 20, of Roma, allegedly organized a complex caravan system through private ranches in Starr, Zapata and Jim Hogg counties to avoid detection at U.S. Border Patrol checkpoints.Once north of the Rio Grande Valley, Ramirez's workers cut across Central Texas before delivering their loads to Houston. One worker told authorities each load carried at least a half-ton of narcotics and sometimes much more, according to a criminal complaint filed in Ramirez's case.Over the past two years, agents seized eight loads believed linked...
Police have arrested an Asian National in Natovi, Tailevu suspected of supplying marijuana to Secondary School students, and people in Ovalau, Lomaiviti, Suva and even to Vanualevu.Media Liaison officer, Atunaisa Sokomuri said the 45 year old man is believed to have been the main drug peddler in Natovi and he was under police surveillance for some time.The man is also alleged to have been the main point of contact for drug suppliers to the Outer Islands.CID officers from Police Headquarters raided the house and confiscated 19 parcels and some loose...
Clayton Roueche (ROOSH') was arrested last month after he was denied entry to Mexico and authorities put him on a plane to Dallas. He appeared Thursday in U.S. District Court in Seattle, where he was indicted last fall and charged with conspiracy to distribute cocaine and marijuana and to launder money.Canadian authorities say Roeuche is the leader of a vicious gang that's called the United Nations because of its ethnic diversity. The U.S. attorney's office in Seattle says the charges against him arose from an investigation called Operation Frozen...
Ricardo Mendoza-Morales, 39, of Beaverton smuggled cocaine, heroin and methamphetamine from Mexico and California. U.S. District Judge James Redden imposed Mendoza-Morales' sentence Wednesday, three years after a multi-agency task force arrested nine suspects and seized drugs, handguns and $190,000 in cash. The seizure of 40 pounds of meth was one of Oregon's biggest, said Assistant U.S. Attorney John Deits. Six network members have been sentenced; three others are due Oct....
According to the Don Quast Hyundai company website, Quast and another man named in the indictment, Phillip Stone, 45, are employees of the Abbotsford dealership. Quast, the owner's son, is the general manager and Stone is the sales manager.Devron Quast of Abbotsford and Robert Shannon of Maple Ridge, both 38, made an appearance Friday at the U.S. District Court in Seattle. Quast, Shannon and seven others were indicted for conspiracy to distribute cocaine and marijuana.On Thursday, Quast and Shannon went to Ferndale to meet with an undercover officer...
Police arrested seven people in total, including the three who worked for Entreprises Cara food services a company that loads meals onto outbound planes. Investigators allege the three workers were also unloading cocaine, smuggled on flights arriving from the Dominican Republic. Police recovered 16 kilograms in their investigation, which went back to August 2006. "Once a plane arrived in Montreal the employees had the responsibility to remove the...
Australian police are investigating links between allegedly corrupt top crime investigator Mark Standen and a jailed drug runner whose attempt to smuggle AU$7 million (NZ$8.83 million) in cocaine into Australia was foiled by New Zealand customs. Standen, NSW Crime Commission deputy head was arrested this week for his alleged role in a AU$120 million global drug conspiracy. He now faces a second investigation into his friendship with John Anderson,...
growing popularity of lapdogs and the abolition of European Union border controls have caused a boom in the cruel smuggling of puppies from eastern Europe.Customs authorities and animal rights groups have warned that rogue breeders are exploiting the demand for small “handbag” dogs, used as fashion accessories by celebrities such as Paris Hilton and Britney Spears.Breeds such as chihuahuas, Yorkshire terriers and golden retrievers are being bred in filthy conditions and then transported in cramped cages and cardboard boxes to street markets to...
Gang of drug smugglers including three Arabs and six Asians were arrested by police last week, police said.A Sharjah police official said that the gang members were arrested while they were attempting to smuggle 201kg of hashish at the country's ports.Police said the criminal investigation department at Sharjah police, in cooperation with the coastguard were able to arrest the six Asian drug smugglers while they were trying to smuggle the hashish.Police said they received information that three powerful drug dealers in the Gulf will buy the hashish...
24 million British travellers could be inadvertently smuggling goods on their return from holidays and trips outside the EU, according to research by Saga Travel Insurance. Cigarettes, alcohol and clothing over the allowed expenditure limit top the list of contraband with men most likely to consciously break import laws.Over 30 million British adults travel outside the EU at least once every five years and three quarters (74%), or over 24 million of them are unaware of what products are restricted or are illegal to bring back into the country....
58 tortoises were recovered and five smugglers arrested here, police said Friday. A police team raided a hideout of a group of smugglers, five of whom were arrested, in Gosainganj area of Lucknow and recovered the tortoises Thursday night.“Those arrested have revealed important information regarding a gang involved in trafficking of endangered tortoises. We have already initiated an investigation in this regard,” K. Singh of Gosainganj police station said.Police said forest officials had confirmed that the tortoises had been caught in the Gomti...
major smuggling ring involved in the illegal trade of shahtoosh wool captured, which is only obtained by killing the endangered Tibetan Antelope. During a raid on three Bangkok stores located in a high-end tourist area, police seized over 250 purported shahtoosh shawls which are well known in the fashion world for their exceptional quality. A single shawl requires wool from three to five dead antelopes.If all of the shawls prove to be genuine following forensic tests, the haul could represent over 1,000 Tibetan Antelopes that were killed for their...
Two Bulgarian smugglers were apprehended arriving from Serbia at the Röszke border station with ten kilograms of heroin on Thursday, writes szeged.hu.Sniffer dogs indicated that there was something suspicious about the two front mud-guards of their claret Mercedes. The border guards asked for backup and restricted control, and found ten kilograms and 394 grams of heroin derivatives valued at around Ft 16 million (€64,000). The smugglers said they had been lent the car and hired to bring the haul to Western Euro...
Cocaine packages with a combined street value of nearly £5m found floating in waters off the Welsh coast are linked to major international drug gangs, customs officials said last night.It was confirmed yesterday that a single package found floating near St Davids three weeks ago by a couple celebrating their 42nd wedding anniversary contained 30kg of the Class A drug.Its origins are potentially so serious that the investigation has now been taken over by the Serious Organised Crime Agency (Soca).It is the latest in a series of sinister packages...
