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Moroccan police have seized 1.1 tons of cannabis resin in the country's northern port of Tangier, local MAP news agency reported on Friday. The drug was concealed in three Italian-registered cars driven by Moroccan expatriates who were going back to Europe after summer vacations, a police source was quoted as saying. The drug was contained in three separate parcels of 540 kg, 210kg and 360 kg. The arrest of the suspected smugglers also involved an Italian national who was serving as a guide for the shipment of the substance from Morocco to Italy,...
59-year-old man from Carlton in Sydney will appear via videolink before Parramatta Local Court today after allegedly trying to smuggle more than 577 grams of cocaine through Sydney International Airport.After arriving on a flight from Santiago, Chile, yesterday morning (19 July 2008), the man was detained for a frisk search by Customs officers. During the search, a large package was found concealed around the man’s groin. He was then interviewed by Australian Federal Police agents at the airport.The AFP has charged the man with importing a marketable...
The National Drugs Control Agency ((DNCD) has seized 95 kilos of cocaine in different suitcases and packages left at the Las Americas International Airport by unidentified travelers who arrived from Colombia in the last 24 hours. The antinarcotics agency today said it also seized 50 more kilos last Saturday found in the luggage claim area, in suitcases from Colombia, left by their owners. “The reinforced vigilance at Las Americas, with emphasis on flights from South America, has made possible that in less than 24 hours 90 packages have been seized,...
A 27-year-old Namibian man appeared in the Bellville magistrate's court on Wednesday on a drug possession charge.Police pokesperson Captain Dennis Adriao said Douglas Albrightson, a crew member for an international airline, was arrested on Saturday at Cape Town International Airport."He was stopped and searched by police who found 230 grams of cocaine with an estimated street value of R66 171 in his underpants."Albrightson was remanded to September 3.Police have arrested a number of alleged drug mules at the airport in the past few weeks, Adriao...
Airborne drug smuggling from Winnipeg to Sanikiluaq continues, with RCMP seizing about 10 grams of cocaine from a passenger on an Aug. 17 scheduled Kivalliq Air flight. Tipped off by information from the public, members of the RCMP detachment in Sanikiluaq found 19 plastic-wrapped packets of cocaine in the carry-on luggage of a woman traveling back from Winnipeg.The packets had a street value of $5,000, said Cst. Paul Robinson of the Sanikiluaq RCMP detachment.Sarah Kittosuk, 36, will appear in court in Sanikiluaq next month to face charges of...
50-year-old New Zealand man will appear in Southport Magistrates Court today charged with attempting to possess cocaine, following a transnational operation involving the Australian Federal Police and German law enforcement.This operation is the first involving information exchanged through the Europol Liaison Bureau in the Hague, following the appointment of an AFP member in May this year.German authorities intercepted two separate consignments of hydraulic cylinders being sent through buy air mail to an address in Surfers Paradise, Queensland...
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has arrested two suspected drug traffickers at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA) Lagos. One of the suspects had a fake on duty tag and a tarmac reflective jacket just to beat security check. In a signed statement made available to LEADERSHIP yesterday, the Agency gave the suspects’ names as Uchendu Eze Sunday, 40 and Okeke Mathew Chizoba, 21. They were nabbed with substances suspected to be illicit drugs. Okeke smuggled his way to the tarmac under the guise of an airport staff...
ladder provided a drug smuggler with a novel way to conceal his contraband Tuesday at the border.Unfortunately for the smuggler who attempted to travel through San Luis port of entry with the marijuana, the new method wasn't as crafty in practice as it might have seemed in theory. U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers discovered 211 pounds of marijuana worth with an estimated street value $343,000 in two hollowed-out steel extension ladders,...
Iran has hanged two convicted drug smugglers inside a Tehran prison, Iran's state-run newspaper said on Wednesday, the latest in a series of executions that has been criticised by rights groups and European governments.Since authorities launched a clampdown on "immoral behaviour" in July 2007, police have arrested dozens of drug addicts, smugglers, rapists and murderers.Murder, adultery, rape, armed robbery, apostasy and drug trafficking are all punishable by death under Iran's sharia law, practised since the 1979 Islamic revolution."The two men...
latest plea by the three Bali bombers to the constitutional court would not affect plans for their execution. Lawyers for the three men - Imam Samudra, Amrozi and Mukhlas, also known as Ali Gufron, lodged a legal challenge earlier this month, saying that Indonesia's method of executing convicts by firing squad was inhumane. The three men would prefer an Islamic method of execution by beheading. All three have been on death row since 2003, when a Bali court sentenced them to death for their roles in the 2002 Bali bombings that killed 202 peop...
suspected smuggler with cocaine stashed in a hidden compartment in his vehicle was intercepted Friday morning at the San Clemente checkpoint on Interstate 5, according to a Border Patrol news release.A Border Patrol agent at the checkpoint stopped a Range Rover heading north at 5:30 a.m., the release states. The driver, a Mexican citizen traveling legally in the county, acted nervous as the agent interviewed him. The agent also noticed bottles of laundry detergent, often used to mask the scent of narcotics, inside the sport utility vehicle.A canine...
"queen pins" Enedina Arellano Felix and Sandra Avila Beltrán. Felix is alleged to have become one of the leaders of the Tijuana cartel across California's border after her brothers were murdered.Beltran, dubbed the "Queen of the Pacific," was indicted on drug charges in Florida four years ago and is said to have developed smuggling routes through Mexico for a Colombian cartel. A beautiful woman, Beltrán would ask to do her make-up before her court proceedings and gained even greater fame for her haughty and arrogant behavior.More women have also...
Saudi Arabia has foiled an attempt to smuggle of 4.5 million of drugs pills and half a ton of hashish into the country, it was announced by the media spokesman of the Directorate General of Drugs Control, Major Ebrahim Abu Hilayel.In a press statement here on Saturday, he noted that the attempt was foiled in cooperation with a neighbouring country which he declined to name.According to him, the Saudi anti-drugs squad also foiled in the past two weeks several attempts of drugs smuggling and trafficking in Al Aflaj, King Khaled International Airport,...
Uruguay’s fishing industry has come under the spotlight of the Montevideo and Spanish police narcotics departments following the arrest of a Spanish citizen and the discovery of containers to be exported with 300 kilos of cocaine hidden among the frozen fish. The Spanish citizen had a company which was operating from Montevideo with two vessels, “Cibeles” and “Banzare” with Uruguayan licences, including for toothfish and on request from the famous...
Death sentence hanging over the sheik for drugs trafficking, the oil-rich principality is waiting to see whether the strict rule of law or the kinship ties of the ruling family will prevail. The sheik, who is in his 50s, was caught by Kuwaiti police with 10kg of cocaine and 75kg of hashish. When sentencing him to death, judge Humoud al-Mutwatah said the sheik had "willingly walked the path of evil" and deserved no mercy. It was the first time a Gulf royal family member had been condemned to death by a court, and the case is widely seen as a test...
Three Vietnamese members of a drugs gang were today jailed for a total of 23 years for a punishment beating that left a man dead.Tran Nguyen, 44, was beaten up and dumped fatally injured in a hospital in November 2006, two months after arriving in the UK on the back of a lorry.The gang accused the father-of-two of stealing plants from the cannabis factory he tended in Newport, south Wales, a four-month trial heard.Quynh Van Huynh, 51, who was the boss, was jailed for nine years for manslaughter at Cardiff Crown Court today.Than Van Le, 32, and...
Twenty one people, including 14 Victorians and some with alleged mafia links, were arrested after the seizure of 4.4 tonnes of ecstasy, it was revealed last Friday.The arrests were the culmination of a 12-month operation across the country, including Melbourne.Those charged included a 37-year-old Werribee woman who was arrested in a Carlton house and charged with trafficking MDMA, money laundering in excess of $1m and aiding and abetting the importation of cocaine. She appeared in the Melbourne Magistrates' Court on Friday and was remanded to reappear...
Luiza Caetano de Lima, a 29-year-old Brazilian cook, was arrested for carrying 350 grams of cocaine in her vaginal cavity. She was intercepted on a bus on the Paraguayan bord...
Last year, 230 Britons were incarcerated in the Emirates, including 59 for drugs offences, figures from the Foreign Office in London show. Fifty Britons were apprehended in Abu Dhabi last year, 19 for drugs crimes.Catherine Wolthuizen, the chief executive of Fair Trials International, puts the number of drug arrests down to the highly sensitive new equipment that customs officials use to conduct searches on travellers.“So many people now travel to Dubai and, as we’re seeing, many have no idea what risks they’re taking or their vulnerability to...
anti-drug agency and police are gearing up to dismantle foreign-organised crime syndicates which have been controlling the trade in illicit drugs at some of Thailand's famous tourist destinations for years. Krissana Pol-anand, the secretary-general of the Office of the Narcotics Control Board (ONCB), said ONCB officials and drug suppression police were very concerned about the drug trade run by foreign businessmen in Phuket, Koh Samui and Pattaya.''The drug trade run by foreign businessmen has been increasing in these areas. We're collecting evidence...
Police said yesterday that they have arrested two 28-year-olds in Athens after finding them in possession of 6.6 kilos of cocaine. Officers said that they also found a gun, 35 bullets and 11,000 euros in cash in the possession of the two suspects, a Greek and an Albanian. Police also revealed that they found 3.2 kilos of heroin hidden in a flowerpot on the roof of an apartment block in the Athens district of Galatsi. Officers said that an Albanian, who was arrested and jailed in February for drug dealing, had lived in the buildi...
20-year-old man traveling from Amsterdam suspected of drug smuggling was arrested following a routine inspection by customs at Keflavík International Airport on Wednesday. X-ray showed that he was carrying at least 20 foreign objects in his digestive tract. “The investigation is in the preliminary stages because we cannot do anything before we know what kind of substances he is carrying and how much it is,” Kári Gunnlaugsson, chief divisional manager at Keflavík Airport Customs Control, told Fréttabladid. The suspect is being held at the Sudurnes...
"The body of a 21-year-old man was found in a flat in Kőbánya, Budapest’s 10th District, late Tuesday night, making him the sixth person to die from a heroin overdose in the capital since last weekend.Budapest Police anti-drugs division head Maj. Norber Ródler told reporters on Wednesday that it is not yet known whether there is a connection between the recent death and the drugs sold by the two dealers who were captured on Monday. The heroin that...
U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers at the Calexico, Calif. downtown port of entry seized nearly half a million dollars in cocaine on Monday and arrested a 22-year-old female Mexican citizen in connection with the failed smuggled attempt. CBP officers discovered 22 packages of cocaine hidden in false compartments in this BMW.at about 9:30 a.m. when a female driving a silver 2008 BMW 1201 was referred to the secondary inspection area for examination...
Paul Longoria will have years behind bars to reflect on his decision to turn a Forsyth County fence company into a front for cocaine trafficking.Longoria was sentenced this week to 12 years in federal prison on felony drug charges. He was ordered to serve another five years on probation after his release, said Patrick Crosby, spokesman for the U.S. attorney's office in Atlanta.Longoria was arrested in May 2007 at Crown Fence in northern Forsyth County. The company was undistinguished from the thousands of small businesses that fill office parks...
27-year-old Mexican national is behind bars after he allegedly tried to smuggled 27 pounds of cocaine into Brownsville.U.S. Customs & Border Protection officials told Action 4 News that the seizure happened at the B & M International Bridge earlier this week.The man pulled up to the bridge in a Ford Explorer.A seconday inspection of the vehicle revealed 27 pounds of cocaine hidden inside.The driver was arrested and handed over to U.S. Immigration & Customs Enforcement officers for further investigati...
34-year-old Ellenbrook man appeared in Fremantle Magistrate's Court today charged with importing a banned steroid from Thailand.The man was charged by customs officials following an investigation into an alleged plot to import more than 15,000 tablets of the banned performance enhancing drug Dianabol.Customs were alerted to the alleged plot after several thousand tablets were allegedly found inside six tins, packaged as nuts at Perth International...
$1.8 MILLION stash of illegal party drugs has been seized and nine people arrested in one of the biggest drug hauls in the Territory. More than 26kg of cannabis, 5kg of ecstasy tablets and almost a kilogram of methamphetamine was found when detectives pounced on homes and industrial warehouses in the Darwin and Palmerston areas at the weekend.The sting was part of Operation Uadjet -- a two-month NT Police investigation into the alleged thriving drug ring.Drug and Organised Crime Division Superintendent Peter Bravos said it is believed the drugs...
One person convicted of smuggling cocaine and another convicted of supplying the drug were sentenced to over five years in prison. Two others found guilty of reselling the drugs were sentenced to two to three years in prison.The Tampere District Court also handed down conditional prison terms or fines to seven others.In June, police in Tampere uncovered an international drug ring that smuggled some 700 grams of cocaine into the city.The drugs originated from Suriname and were transported through the Netherlands before being smuggled into Finland....
Police Vice Squad has arrested three people in the Zabbar Housing Estate, in connection with cocaine and heroin trafficking. Reports of drug trading were received on Sunday morning, resulting in the arrest of a 31-year-old from Valletta and a 39-year-old from Zejtun. A bit later, the police arrested the man who was selling the drugs, a 22-year-old man who was already known to the police. He was found to be in possession of packets filled with cocaine and heroin, ready to be sold. Other related objects were also found in his ho...
Earlier this week, two of Canada’s largest tobacco firms were handed a total $1.15 billion in criminal and civil penalties after pleading guilty to charges involving smuggling of cigarettes in the early 1990s. That’s not a whole lot different from the tax evasion that took down gangster chief Al Capone in the 1930s.Imperial Tobacco Canada Ltd. and Rothmans Benson & Hedges pleaded guilty to “aiding persons to sell and be in possession of tobacco manufactured in Canada that was not packed and was not stamped in conformity with the Excise Act,”...
Eight people have been charged with attempting to import about 100kg of marijuana, with a street value of about $60,000, from PNG.No drugs have been recovered, contrary to reports in the southern media that a significant amount had been seized.Delivery of the drugs to two men, who were the subject of a massive search and rescue operation on July 7, apparently broke down in PNG and were returning to Badu empty-handed when they ran into difficulties, Police said.The men were rescued by an Australian Customs helicopter the next day and their boat...
Presidential amnesty has been granted to twenty-nine of the 30 Nigerians deported from Thailand for drug related offences. They have been released from the Nigeria Prison service. They were amongst 57 Nigerians serving jail terms in Thailand after their convictions for drug related offences and had been sent to Nigeria prison in 2005.They were all males between ages 35 and 50 and embraced their friends and familywho were waiting outside the prison gates shouting “I have regained freedom.” The Deputy Comptroller of Prison Ijebu Ode Command said...
Unnamed British citizen is among more than 30 people being held after Thai police broke up a drug ring that was supplying tourists with cocaine and Ecstasy. Police Colonel Ithipol Kitsuwansay said the ring bought 10 kilos of cocaine worth £500,000 from Latin America each month and shipped it to the island of Samui. Scores of foreigners are on death row in Thailand for drug-related convictio...
Thai police detained more than 30 people and broke up a drug ring that was supplying tourists with cocaine and Ecstasy on the island of Samui, an official said Saturday.Working with American drug enforcement agents, Thai police made the arrests Friday, said Police Col. Ithipol Kitsuwansay. Among those detained were an Iranian suspected of leading the ring, two Turks, several Africans and a British citizen, he said.Police also seized about 100 million baht (US$3 million) in assets owned by the Iranian, including a yacht, several gift shops and a...
Investigators have seized more than 150 bottles labelled “gay lube oil” imported from Thailand since the operation began at the beginning of the year and are investigating 30 people and groups across Australia, including WA. Customs national manager investigations Richard Janeczko said they had acted on intelligence from domestic and overseas officers in cooperation with Thai authorities and were the first to detect this particular disguise. “It’s a bit of a cat and mouse game. We believe we will be able to stop the use of this disguise in the...
Angel Daniel Vaszquez, 46, of 186 Hamburg St Delaney said. found with 122 packets of heroin inside his Plymouth Voyager, Then, executing a warrant at Vasquez's home, which is less than 100 feet from Van Horn Park, they found 60 more bags of heroin, $1,000 in cash and other drug-related items, Delaney said After the arrest, detectives observed dozens of addicts at the corner of Main, Medford and Harriet streets, waiting for a heroin delivery that never came, Delaney said. Vasquez was charged with possession of heroin with intent to distribute, violation...
Adam Turpin, 22, of Bruce Crescent, Lerwick, admitted supplying heroin between 13th September and 13th November last year at addresses in the town’s Commercial Road and North Road. A plea of not guilty to a further charge of supplying cannabis at North Road was accepted.Procurator fiscal Duncan MacKenzie said that police had searched the home Turpin shared with his girlfriend when Turpin was present and had found a money tin containing £3,480. A drugs dog was used and found a quantity of heroin in the bathroom. Two sets of scales, a grinder and...
Customs officials on Friday said they discovered almost seven pounds of heroin hidden in a suitcase at Bush Intercontinental Airport. They said the drugs, which were valued at more than $600,000, were concealed within the frame of a suitcase. Airport officials said the bag belonged to citizen of the United Kingdom who was on his way from Trinidad to New York. He was arrested and is being held in ja...
Two people are in custody after a Border Patrol search of their vehicle Thursday near Quartzsite yielded 42 pounds of cocaine, the patrol said.The seizure came at the Border Patrol checkpoint on Highway 95 near Quartzsite after a drug-sniffing dog alerted patrol agents to the possible presence of drugs in the 2000 Chevrolet Venture minivan, the patrol said.The cocaine, wrapped in 17 packages, was found in a false compartment in the roof of the minivan, according to the patrol.The dog alerted agents to the drugs after the van had been referred to...
Arkansas Highway Police has seized more than $1 million worth of cocaine from a tractor-trailer on Interstate 40 near West Memphis.Highway Police Chief Ron Burks says the vehicle was traveling eastbound when it was stopped Wednesday. During a safety inspection, officers uncovered 53 bundles of cocaine, all weighing about 116 pounds. Burks says the drugs had a street value of $1.3 million.Officers arrested 60-year-old Joaquin Lopez of Vinton, Texas, on suspicion of possession of a controlled substance with intent to deliver. Police believe the truck...
Three English gang members received jail terms totalling 85 years. Two of the accused, Martin Wanden, 45, and Perry Wharrie, 49, received record 30-year sentences.A third man, Joe Daly, 41, was sentenced to 25 years for his part in the smuggling operation which came unstuck off Dunlough Bay in west Cork on July 2 last year.The case brought to light the vulnerability of the Irish coastline for landing consignments of narcotics. For a coastline totalling about 4,350 kilometres, there is just one Customs cutter boat, the RCC Suirbheir, which is based...
The government of Guinea-Bissau has expressed its commitment to unravel drug scandal, vowing that it would not succumb to threats on the lives of the Justice Minister, Carmelita Pires and Attorney General, Luis Manuel Cabral, over the arrest of five people suspected of drugs trafficking. Carmelita Pires said though she is scared by the threats, the government would not be intimidated and would therefore continue to probe the country's major drug bust which has caused a stand off between police and soldiers at the West African country's main airport.Ms...
couriers have died after packages have ruptured and poisoned their systems with massive doses of narcotics. Couriers who die transporting narcotics are "sliced like pieces of meat" by drug barons intent on getting their product to market, the head of the Revenue Commissioners' drug law enforcement arm has revealed.Over €135m worth of illegal drugs have been seized by customs so far this year -- although most of this figure comes from the €110m haul...
Michelle Kersey, 23, uttered a barely audible "guilty" during a brief appearance before Justice Renee Pomerance. She'll be sentenced Sept. 19.Her boyfriend at the time of their Aug. 9, 2006, arrests, Jeremiah Maguire, 24, had previously pleaded guilty in provincial court to drug and firearm charges and was handed a 21/2-year federal penitentiary term on a drug trafficking charge and one-year consecutive term for illegal possession of a firearm.Prosecutor...
