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The $7.75 million worth of dope was going to be smuggled out of Pearson by ramp workers with links to the gangs, police say.Crime gangs in the GTA were to be the final stop for 300 kilos of pot and hash seized on two flights from Jamaica at Pearson airport, the RCMP says. Eight drug-filled duffel bags were found March 13 by crew off-loading a plane, said Patrizia Giolti, of the Canada Border Services Agency. The seizure wasn't made public until yesterday as officers were hoping to run down the smugglers. The bags contained 41 bricks of marijuana...
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Police have seized 1.5 kilograms of heroin from a Tajik national in the town of Lyubertsy southeast of Moscow, a Moscow Region police spokesman said on Sunday. The narcotics were discovered in a hiding place in an apartment rented by an unemployed Tajik national, the spokesman said. Most of the heroin and hashish coming into Russia originates in Afghanistan and is then trafficked into the country through the former Soviet republics of Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. Most of the drugs are then sold in Russia's largest cities, or shipped onto Europe....
Two B.C. men are facing charges after being pulled over in a truck carrying $3.5-million in cocaine, U.S. media are reporting.The men were pulled over in California between the towns of Barstow and Victorville, about 150 kilometres northeast of Los Angeles. Police noticed their truck bed appeared shallower than it should be.Police seized the vehicle, and used a fork lift to remove the truck bed. They discovered an elaborately hidden stash of powdered cocaine totalling 68 kilograms with a street value local police think to be about $3.5-million.The...
53-year-old man has been arrested at Prestwick Airport on suspicion of trying to smuggle a quantity of cocaine into the country. The man was stopped by officers from the UK Border Agency on Tuesday night after he got off a flight from Spain. Police were called after he was found to be in possession of drugs, believed to be cocaine, with an estimated street value of £60,000. The man was expected to appear at Ayr Sheriff Court on Wednesd...
Roman Vidal, 57, allegedly smuggled millions of dollars in black market cigarettes through the Port of Miami on behalf of European gangs --- including the Real IRA, which has claimed responsibility for an attack on a four soldiers waiting for a pizza delivery.The brutal killings -- which included execution shots to wounded victims lying on the ground -- threaten to derail the peace process in Northern Ireland, with one Protestant leader warning that it might signal a return to the "bad old days where people are being killed in open air gun attacks."Vidal...
Heroin worth an estimated €250,000 has been seized following the search of an apartment in Adamstown.As the result of an intelligence led operation, gardaí searched an apartment in the Adamstown area of Lucan, Co Dublin last night.A car was also seized and taken to Kevin St for a technical examination. During this examination, which was carried out this morning, 1.25kg of heroin were discovered.This substance, depending on a forensic analysis, has a potential street value of €250,000.Certain paraphernalia associated with drug dealing were also...
Julian Burford, 40, and Turner D. Williams, 34, were arrested. The men are being held in Cleveland City Jail for investigation of aggravated drug trafficking. No formal charges have been filed.investigation Tuesday netted more than 70 pounds of cocaine with a street value of more than $5 million.Officers investigating the drug trafficking operation learned that a truckload of cocaine originating in California was en-route to Cleveland."This is another example of our never-ending fight against narcotics trafficking in this area," said McGrath. "As...
Ex-paramilitary leader Miguel Angel Mejia Munera was handcuffed and wearing a bullet-proof before he boarded a U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) plane in Bogota bound for the United States, which had offered a $5 million reward for information leading to his capture.Colombia extradited one of its most-wanted drug lords to the United States on Wednesday to face charges of running an armed cocaine-smuggling gang with his twin brother, police...
Two Guyanese women en route to separate African destinations were arrested at airports in Brazil and Portugal after cocaine concealed in liquid eyeliner containers were discovered in their checked luggage, police said yesterday.A release from the Force stated that they have been informed that on February 11, Portuguese customs officials at Lisbon airport seized over 16 kilograms of cocaine concealed inside liquid eyeliner containers placed in the checked baggage of a 42-year-old Guyanese female. She was travelling from Portugal to Brazil to Guinea...
Officers from the Revenue's Customs Service seized money, cocaine and a large haul of cigarettes over the weekend at Dublin Airport.Two sums of cash, €28,450 and €34,900, were seized yesterday when officers searched the baggage of two Irish nationals, aged 44 and 32, who were about to board a flight to Malaga.Officers were granted two-month detention orders this morning in each case by Justice Brian Smyth in the Dublin District Court, to carry out further investigations.On Saturday, officers intercepted a 25-year-old Polish man who had arrived...
Authorities say trash bags containing marijuana, tobacco and cell phones were thrown over a wall at a minimum-security housing facility near Oklahoma State Penitentiary.Capt. Don Hass of the McAlester Police Department says three Tulsa women were arrested in the smuggling attempt after a neighbor called authorities.The incident occurred Friday at Talawanda Heights which is a 69-bed minimum security unit outside the east gate of the main OSP facility. It houses inmates used in OSP support positions such as maintenance and kitchen work.Deputy Warden...
