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Five Airport Employees Charged with Drug Offences: "Investigators from the RCMP Greater Toronto Area Drug Section - Toronto Airport Drug Enforcement Unit (TADEU) arrested 9 persons throughout the Greater Toronto Area and charged them with various drug related offences. This investigation, dubbed Project OTAG, began in February 2010. While working in conjunction with the United States Homeland Security Investigations and the Jamaican Constabulary Force information was received that led investigators to several employees at the Toronto Lester...
Women for Schapelle: Schapelle Corby & The Cover Up: "Federal police say 'it is a recognised criminal activity' for drug dealers to use innocent travellers as unsuspecting 'mules'. They have arrested baggage handlers at Sydney Airport for the offence. Drugs are inserted in luggage at one airport and a photograph of the target bag and its tag are emailed to the destination airport, where baggage handlers recover the drugs before the passenger...
Mexican judge absolves reputed drug cartel 'queen' - Nation & World - The Olympian - Olympia, Washington: "Judge Fernando Cordova del Valle ruled that prosecutors failed to bring enough evidence against Sandra Avila Beltran, described by U.S. and Mexican officials as a major decision-maker for the Sinaloa gang, Mexico's most powerful cartel. The 'Queen of the Pacific' had been charged with organized crime, conspiracy to traffic drugs and money...
Pearson employees charged in alleged drug-funnelling scheme Posted Toronto National Post: "drug-smuggling ring involving five employees of Pearson International Airport and their connections in Jamaica and Greater Toronto has been dismantled, police announced Thursday.
The RCMP allege a variety of drugs — including ecstasy, hashish and khat, a stimulant plant — flowed in and out of the airport via chartered airlines. The Pearson staffers used their...
18 Dominican military officials detained: "Authorities have detained 18 military officials and two U.S. pilots after stopping a cocaine-laden airplane from taking off, officials said Friday.
The small plane, a Short 360, was carrying 145 1-kilogram (2.2-pound) bricks of cocaine and was bound for Puerto Rico late Thursday, said Rolando Rosado Mateo, president of the National Drug Control Agency.
The officials detained include members of the drug...
Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez should be very troubled that a man whom President Obama has branded one of the world's most significant drug kingpins, Walid Makled-Garcia, may soon be telling U.S. federal prosecutors everything he knows about senior Venezuelan officials who have abetted his cocaine smuggling operations. Makled-Garcia's devastating testimony comes on the heels of fresh evidence of Chávez's support for terrorist groups from Spain, Colombia, and the Middle East and his apparent illegal support for Iran's nuclear weapons program....
Mexico hunting 12-year-old drug gang hitman | Reuters: "boy, known only as 'El Ponchis,' is believed to be working for the South Pacific cartel in Morelos state, outside Mexico City, and is one of a group of young teenagers who have already committed 'terrible acts,' Morelos State Prosecutor Pedro Luis Benitez told local radio.'These minors are still not fully developed and so it is easy to influence them, to give them a gun, pretending it is plastic, that it is a game.'Benitez did not name the boy or give more details, but when asked directly...
The Press Association: Woman held over heroin seizure: "woman has been arrested after heroin with a street value of thousands of pounds was seized in a house, police said.Police unearthed £45,000 worth of the drug when they searched a property in Braehead.A 39-year-old is being held in custody in connection with the drugs recovery and is due to appear in court on Monda...
Heroin packaging operation busted in NYC - UPI.com: "Police and federal narcotics agents in New York Friday announced a $6.5 million heroin bust at a Manhattan apartment building.Four people were arrested and 13 kilograms (28 pounds) of heroin was seized in the operation Thursday that targeted an apartment on West 43rd Street where heroin was allegedly packaged in glassine envelopes for sale on the street.'Piles of loose heroin and assorted drug packaging paraphernalia sat on tables where the defendants had been working assembly line-style,' the...
Alleged cocaine ring through Juarez includes baseball coach | kens5.com | San Antonio News, Weather, Sports, Traffic, Entertainment, Video and Photos: "cocaine ring bust has landed several people in jail, including a college baseball coach.Investigators say the drugs have been making their way to Colorado every week, but arrests were made Tuesday in several states, including Texas.Police say drug cartels were trafficking through Ciudad Juarez into Texas to get to Colorado.But gang members weren't the only suspects. A baseball coach from Regis University...
Three arrested in Antioch cocaine bust - San Jose Mercury News: "police went to a hotel on West 10th Street after surveillance showed Ford had just met with two men there, Bias said. They stopped and arrested 39-year-old Martinez resident Timothy Davis and 25-year-old Pittsburg resident Johnny Denton as they were about to drive away.'Our timing was just right,' Bias said.Police found several ounces of cocaine, marijuana and Ecstasy in the car Davis and Denton were in, Bias said. He added that all three suspects have prior drug arrests. They were...
NYC Postal Carrier Charged With Selling Cocaine « CBS New York – News, Sports, Weather, Traffic and the Best of NY: "U.S. Postal Service carrier in New York has been arrested on charges that he sold cocaine while in uniform and driving his postal truck.Queens District Attorney Richard Brown said Wednesday that 49-year-old Felix Soto was awaiting arraignment Thursday on charges of criminal sale of a controlled substance and conspiracy.Information about his attorney was not immediately available. If convicted, he faces up to 20 years in prison.Brown...
NBI probes politician’s alleged links to sale of P15-M cocaine - INQUIRER.net, Philippine News for Filipinos: "The National Bureau of Investigation is investigating the possible links between an “influential politician” and two men who were recently arrested in a drug buy-bust operation.The two men were caught selling P15 million worth of cocaine, suspected to have been part of the 1,500-kilogram drugs shipment that illegal traffickers reportedly dumped in the sea off Samar province last December.One of the arrested men was seen in an airport video...
Border Patrol Seizes 1,150 Pounds Of Marijuana - Phoenix News Story - KPHO Phoenix: "U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers have confiscated 1,150 pounds of marijuana hidden in vehicle tires at El Paso area ports between Monday and Thursday.The drugs are worth an estimated $920,568, with one of the largest seizures made Tuesday morning on a car carrying 206 pounds of marijuana. Haro, a CBP drug-sniffing dog helped discover the drugs located in all four tires.There were a total of 32 bundles if marijuana, and police arrested the driver, Kevin...
Trucker not guilty in $3.2-million cocaine case: "Jaininder Singh Dusanjh was arrested Dec. 12, 2007, when he entered Canada at the Pacific Highway border crossing. An officer with the Canadian Border Services Agency found the first of 83 one-kilogram bricks of cocaine wrapped in plastic. Officials estimated that the drugs were worth between $1.9 million and $3.2 million if sold at the kilogram level, with the value increasing substantially if sold at the gram level. Dusanjh, 45 years old at the time of the trial, was charged with importing cocaine...
Salina police seize 105 lbs of cocaine from plane - kwch.com: "Salina police sieze more than 100 pounds of cocaine from a private airplane at the Salina Municipal Airport. According to our news partners with the Salina Jounal, police announecd the bust in late-September. The plane landed at the airport to refuel when the discovery was made.The commander of the I-125/I-70 Drug Task Force Lt. Jim Norton says the cocaine has an estimated street value of more than $2 million. Authorities turned over 105 pounds of cocaine, which were turned over to...
Pregnant woman in cocaine case granted bail | General News 2010-11-09: "pregnant woman among four persons arrested in connection with the 125 slabs of cocaine recently seized at the Tema Harbour was on Tuesday admitted to bail by the Fast Track High Court. Kyerewaa Twum-Barimah was admitted to bail in the sum of GH¢80,000 with two sureties, one to be justified. The court, presided over by Mr Justice Mustapha Habib Logo, asked that the sureties should be within the Accra-Tema area. The court ruled that it had been established that Kyerewaa was six...
Marine cops thwart bid to smuggle pangolins: "smuggling syndicate’s attempt to bring in 23 pangolins during a heavy storm here failed when a marine police team intercepted their car.The syndicate was believed to have used a fast boat to bring the animals from Sumatra and landed near Parit Jamil Laut at about 3am yesterday.Muar marine police base commanding officer Asst Supt Nordin Osman said a stake-out team headed by Insp Mohd Naser Marzuke spotted a blue Proton Iswara leaving Parit Jamil at about 9am and trailed the ca...
Crocodile smuggled into plane; how much more air security checks needed?: "live crocodile was smuggled in a passenger’s bag onto a plane departing from an airport in Congo.While on the plane, the reptile escaped and imagine the chaos it caused in the small aircraft. The crew and passengers ran for the cockpit and this caused an imbalance which led to a crash near Bandundu. The incident killed 20 but there was a survivor. The crocodile survived only to be later, hacked to death by machete-wielding locals on the ground.We had our own incident of...
Channel 6 News » Sri Lankan caught smuggling over 2,000 diamonds in swallowed condoms: "Mohammed Shakif, 43, of Galle, Sri Lanka, was smuggling the precious stones in 42 condoms and had just arrived in Chennai, located in the southern region of India, when a team of suburban police acting on a tip off inquired him. According to the police the precious stones were worth between Rs. 1.5 crore ($337,357 dollars) and Rs. 3 crore ($674,715 dollars). Shakif initially refused to answer, but he was taken to the police station and later to Chromepet Government...
Jailed drugs smuggler to miss birth of child - Hartlepool Mail: "Glen Menzies, 32, was caught with 14 tablets of the heroin substitute Subutex and a wrap of heroin that he was trying to smuggle into Holme House Prison, Stockton.He was jailed just four weeks before his partner is due to give birth to their child.Teesside Crown Court was told Menzies was trying to smuggle the drugs by taping them to his body to give to a relative, who he claims had been bullied and threatened with being slashed.Menzies claimed somebody else had packaged the drugs...
Human Smuggling Raid Under Way In West Phoenix - Valley News Story - KPHO Phoenix: "early morning traffic stop by Phoenix Police linvestigators to raid a West Valley mobile home Friday afternoon. Illegal Immigration Apprehension Co-op Team (IIMPACT) investigators swarmed the mobile home suspected to be involved in a human smuggling operation.The raid led detectives to eight men they believe to be illegal immigrants. As officers continued to search the mobile home, they discovered several semi-automatic handguns and assault rifles with ammunition....
Truck driver found not guilty of smuggling millions worth of cocaine: "Balwinder Biring wore a smile as he left New Westminster court Friday after being found not guilty of smuggling millions of dollars worth of cocaine into Canada.Biring, a truck driver, was charged with possession for the purpose of trafficking and importing cocaine after border officers found 137 kilograms of the drug in his tractor-trailer unit in February 2008.The drugs, packaged in 138 bricks weighing approximately one kilogram each, were packed into duffel bags and suitcases...
Former prison counselor guilty of smuggling - News - Progress-Index: "Kevin John Erickson, 50, was found guilty by a federal jury of a single count of conspiracy to provide contraband to inmates, to accept bribes, and to commit assault and one count of soliciting a crime of violence, according to the United States Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Virginia.Erickson was a correctional counselor at the Federal Correctional Complex in Petersburg. The evidence at trial established that Erickson allowed select inmates to charge other inmates...
Anti-Narcotics Force nabs 8 in drug smuggling attempt – The Express Tribune: "Accoridng to Express 24/7 reporter Iftikhar Firdous, the passengers had heroin capsules stitched to their stomachs. Six of the passengers were arrested from a Jeddah bound flight, while two of their accomplices were arrested from the Hajji Camp. The arrested also confessed to running a drug smuggling operation.All of the arrested have been shifted to the hospital for the removal of the tablet...
Haj Pilgrims smuggling drugs are punishable by death in Saudi Arabia: Hamid Saeed | Pakistan | News | Newspaper | Daily | English | Online: "Hamid Saeed Kazmi, Federal Minister for Religious Affairs said Haj Pilgrims are instructed to be careful of drug smuggling as the offense is punishable by death in Saudi Arabia.Talking to private TV channel here on Saturday Hamid Saeed Kazmi said all Haj Pilgrims are instructed to be aware of drug smuggling as this offense is not only punishable by death in Saudi Arabia but also breaches the honor and prestige...
The Press Association: Court officer admits smuggling drugs into prison: "Alan Redmond, 25, passed contraband to prisoners over a four-year period while working at Inner London Crown Court, in Southwark, south London.The former employee of private security firm Serco pleaded guilty at Southwark Crown Court, less than a mile from where he was responsible for escorting defendants to and from their hearings.He was arrested on December 10 last year as he arrived for work, following a long-running investigation by the London Prison Anti-Corruption Team.On...
Human smuggling ship stopped in Thailand | Canada | News | Toronto Sun: "More than 100 people were arrested Thursday in Thailand in a bust that local media and police in that country say is connected to human smuggling.'We are aware that Thai authorities detained over 100 people who were apparently illegally in their country and who were apparently intending to come to Canada though a smuggling operation,' Immigration Minister Jason Kenney told QMI Agency.In the summer, the government boosted its co-operation with Thailand and other countries in...
Dixon woman faces drug smuggling charge in jail incident | News-Leader.com | Springfield News-Leader: "Lynn Paige Gann, 22, was arrested by St. Robert City Police and taken to the Pulaski County Jail. While being booked into the Pulaski County Jail in April, a controlled substances was found on Gann, according to the Pulaski County Sheriff’s offic...
TriValley Central: "man was shot and killed late Monday night in his car west of Casa Grande in a case that the Pinal County Sheriff’s Office linked to drug smuggling.Robert Raya-Ortiz, 31, was found by deputies in a Dodge Stratus stopped in the middle of the road in the 26000 block of West Sherbundy Drive, near his home in a neighborhood south of the Francisco Grande Hotel & Golf Resort, a Sheriff’s Office report stat...
The Log.com News: "Helicopters flooded Coronado streets with bright searchlights one recent night after an 18-foot runabout was discovered abandoned, adrift and empty off the beach. More to Come -- While law enforcement personnel are capturing thousands of pounds of contraband smuggled into U.S. waters aboard small boats, authorities believe that what they see is only the tip of the iceberg. Major Haul -- On Oct. 19, Coast Guard personnel retrieved 25 large bales of black plastic-wrapped marijuana weighing nearly 100 pounds each, dumped in the...
Ex-Outlaws player pleads guilty in cocaine case | greatfallstribune.com | Great Falls Tribune: "Nolan Fisher appeared in federal court Wednesday and pleaded guilty to one count of possession of cocaine for distribution. Two other counts will be dismissed as part of a plea deal when he is sentenced Feb. 2.Prosecutors say the former offensive lineman for the defunct indoor football team lived with teammate Robert Reed. Fisher was accused of letting an undercover detective into their room, where she would get cocaine from Reed, and of driving his...
Man jailed for one million euro cocaine deal bid - Crime, UK - The Independent: "middle-aged drug trafficker was jailed for 18 years today for masterminding an attempted one million euro (£873,700) cocaine deal. Timothy Dale admitted trying to buy 37kg of the class A drug from a British gang based in Amsterdam. It would have been worth more than £4.5 million once cut to street level purity, Britain's Serious Organised Crime Agency (Soca) said. Dale, 47, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to supply a controlled drug after Dutch authorities passed evidence...
Black market cigarettes alert - Northern Ireland, Local & National - Belfasttelegraph.co.uk: "Organised crime gangs are turning to illegally manufactured cigarettes — known as “cheap whites” — to boost their profits in the smuggling trade. Cheap whites are cigarette brands which have been manufactured especially for the black market and, along with counterfeits, produce bigger profit margins for the gangster...
'Murder victim' was convicted drug smuggler (From Clacton and Frinton Gazette): "John Smith died after he was punched, kicked, stabbed and hit by a car in Broadway on July 11 last year. The trial of four people accused of murdering him this week heard Mr Smith, 58, had received a sentence for smuggling class A drugs. A jury at Chelmsford Crown Court was told he was jailed for seven years at Snaresbrook Crown Court in August 2000. He escaped the following September and while still on the run was stopped in London by police who found CS gas cans...
4 men face drug, immigrant smuggling charges - Florida AP - MiamiHerald.com: "Four men have been arrested in connection with a failed drug and illegal immigrant smuggling operation.Authorities say a U.S. Customs and Border Protection vessel encountered a motor boat Sunday named 'Who Cares' in the St. Lucie Inlet. Officers say they boarded the vessel and found five Haitians and one Bahamian boat captain.The officers say they found four padlocked small suitcases, which contained 78 bricks of a white substance that field tested positive for cocai...
Saudi Arabia holds 210 after 3-month drug crackdown: "Saudi Arabia has rounded up 210 suspected drug smugglers in a series of raids since mid-June in which three security officers were killed, an Interior Ministry spokesman said on Wednesday.Security forces carried out 18 raids across the conservative Muslim country, killing two smugglers and seizing drugs with a street value of 330 million riyals ($88 million), said the spokesman, who was quoted by the official SPA news agency.Drugs confiscated in the three-month raids included nearly ten million...
Drugs boat Brits held - mirror.co.uk: "Seven Britons have been arrested after a raid on a boat sailing to the UK from Spain loaded with cannabis worth £10million.The catamaran was boarded in the Straits of Gibraltar and 3.2 tonnes of hashish discovered.Two men and two women were seized by Spanish police on the Costa Del Sol while three men were arrested in Britain after £500,000 in cash was found in house raids.The alleged ringleader Raymond John Whelehan, 55, an Irish national, was arrested in a Spanish jail where he is already serving a sentence...
Federal prosecutors in Pittsburgh have unsealed an indictment charging 22 people who allegedly conspired for 10 years to fly cocaine from California to Pittsburgh, bypassing airport security measures in the process.The indictment was returned in June but revealed only Wednesday. It charges 16 people from California, four from Pennsylvania, and one each from Maryland and Ohio.Prosecutors say Timothy White, 40, of Tracy, Calif. was a primary source of the cocaine. Another man, Ruben Mitchell, 42, of Stockton, Calif. lost track of more than 41 pounds...
Panamanian authorities seized roughly four tons of cocaine at a hideout along the Caribbean coast, 24 hours after confiscating another three tons of that drug, an official spokesperson said Saturday.This second seizure by the National Aeronaval Service, or Senan, occurred Friday near the mouth of the Belen River, almost 300 kilometers (185 miles) northwest of Panama City and near the site of the first seizure at the mouth of the Concepcion River, the spokesman for that institution, Vladimir Rodriguez, said.He told Efe that “4,926 packets of cocaine...
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The Associated Press: In Italy mobsters use lotto to launder dirty cash: "Police say Italian mobsters are buying winning lotto tickets to launder millions of euros (dollars) in cocaine profits.Carabinieri investigators in southern Calabria said Thursday that an euro8 million winning ticket in the national Superenalotto numbers game was sold in a smokeshop owned by the father-in-law of a suspect jailed in a drug probe.Police said the 'ndrangheta offered the anonymous holder of the ticket euro8 million or a little less in dirty money. The winner...
'There's nothing we've done that is illegal': "first and only raid on one of Kahnawake's burgeoning number of cigarette factories, most of which are fiercely defended by the community. What made the facility different -- and convinced Kahnawake band leaders to sanction the bust -- is that police alleged its owners were working closely with the Hells Angels, their cheap, tax-free cigarettes being pedalled on the streets of Montreal along with the outlaw bike gang's crack cocaine. It seems like the clearest case yet of the kind of ties between organized...
Russia and the United States have uncovered a cocaine trade scheme involving a high-profile Russian impresario eager to set up business in Moscow's expensive night clubs, Russia's top drugs control officer said Monday.Russians sprang into action after U.S. officials tipped them off about a 30-year-old Moscow man looking to buy cocaine wholesale in the United States, Viktor Ivanov, head of the Russian anti-narcotics agency, told reporters.The announcement comes less than a week after a Russian pilot was arrested in Liberia on suspicion of smuggling...
Briton attempting to sneak heroin onto a plane in Thailand is caught in the ...
Briton attempting to sneak heroin onto a plane in Thailand is caught in the ...
The Associated Press: Mexico vote goes ahead despite slain candidate: "Drug cartels fund a tenth of Mexico's economy. They have infiltrated many local and state police forces and staged assaults on army bases. Now they're violently inserting themselves into politics, killing the leading candidate for governor of a northern state only days before Sunday's elections in 12 states.The assassination of Rodolfo Torre in the border state of Tamaulipas on Monday capped the deadliest month yet in President Felipe Calderon's military-led offensive against...
U.S. Banks Laundered Mexican Drug Money, Says Report - DailyFinance: "In April, Mexican soldiers searched a DC-9 jet that had landed at the international airport in the port city of Ciudad del Carmen, 500 miles east of Mexico City. On the plane they found 128 black suitcases, packed with 5.7 tons of cocaine, valued at $100 million. Law-enforcement officials later also discovered something else. The smugglers had bought the DC-9 with laundered funds they transferred through two of America's biggest banks: Wachovia and Bank of America (BAC), Bloomberg...
Uk’s ‘drug Mules’ | Twitravel | Best travel deals: "Drug gangs using young women to smuggle drugs into United Kingdom Drug gangs in UK are using now a different way to smuggle cocaine. Now they are hiring young women called “drug mules” to bring in the drugs from Africa. In recent months, there are lots of incidents where British girls in their teens are caught with drugs at the airports in UK or African countries. It has been generally seen that young women had been groomed as smugglers and are lured with holidays, expensive meals, clothes and...
FOXNews.com - Five Federal Lands in Arizona Have Travel Warnings in Place: "southern Arizona, where parts of five federal lands -- including two designated national monuments -- continue to post travel warnings or be outright closed to Americans who own the land because of the dangers of 'human and drug trafficking' along the Mexican border.Roughly 3,500 acres of the Buenos Aires National Wildlife Refuge -- about 3 percent of the 118,000-acre park -- have been closed since Oct. 6, 2006, when U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service officials acknowledged...
Police Sniff Out 2 Drug Smugglers - Las Vegas News Story - KVVU Las Vegas: "Drug traffickers are using complex systems to hide their illicit stashes and get their product to the black market, police said.In Boulder City, the town the Hoover Dam built, a large amount of traffic to and from Arizona travels along U.S. 93.“It's always been a haven for narcotic travel,” said Sgt. Slade Griffin.Police are catching on to the drug smugglers who employ many devices to elude detection using what police call “Highway Interdiction Training” to learn where...
Drug smuggling pair jailed for 38 years | Home Office: "Grimsby Crown Court heard evidence that Marcel Casper Gerardus Reitman and Mathieu Peter Josef Poulissen tried to smuggle almost 80 kilos of the drug in a lorry filled with jam in September 2009.The men, who live in Venlo, Holland, had travelled on the ferry from the Hook of Holland to Killingholme docks, near Immingham, Humberside.Stopped at a scannerWhen the vehicle passed through a UK Border Agency (new window) scanner at the docks, officers noticed something odd in a refrigeration unit....
BBC News - Cocaine worth thousands recovered in Stonehaven: "seized drugs in the Stonehaven area worth thousands of pounds. Cocaine with an estimated street value of more than £17,000 was recovered on Thursday. Two men from Birmingham, aged 29 and 30, and a 20-year-old man from Aberdeen were due to appear at the city's sheriff court on Friday. Grampian Police merged its former drug and crime squads last mont...
Lorry driver charged with smuggling after drugs worth £1 million are found at the Port of Dover: "LORRY driver has been charged with drug smuggling after a haul of amphetamine and Ecstasy was discovered at the Port of Dover.The drugs, with an estimated value of £1 million, were found at the Eastern Docks yesterday in a lorry driven by Ralph Cross.UK Border Agency officers had searched the vehicle with a detector dog and found three holdalls containing an estimated 100 kilos of white powder and a number of tablets. The powder gave a positive reaction...
Drug bust serendipity: Tips lead to 11 arrests, seizure of pot, heroin and guns - Salt Lake Tribune: "Police say five recent strike force drug busts resulted in 11 arrests and the seizure of some $600,000 worth of drugs in the Ogden and Salt Lake areas. The Weber Morgan Narcotics Strike Force says the May 27-28 operation targeted marijuana, methamphetamine and heroin trafficking. Police say one of the arrests was a convicted felon nabbed in Ogden driving a truck with seven rifles, a footlocker full of ammunition and welding equipment believed to...
Poland is Front Line in EU Battle Against Tobacco Smugglers - The Jakarta Globe: "Bezledy is a Polish border crossing with Russia’s Baltic territory of Kaliningrad. It is also on the front line in a battle against contraband cigarettes, which experts say now account for around 13 percent of sales in the European Union. “We stop around five or a maximum 10 percent of vehicles,” commander Mariusz Kuzia said. “Above all it’s based on risk analysis. For example, a person’s travel history. We have systems that log licence plates. We’re good psychologists,...
WEAR ABC 3 :: Florida News: "pleas this week by 24-year-old Steven Sarti of Brossard, Quebec, and 32-year-old Edward Kener of Weston, Fla., mean they could face 20 years to life in prison at sentencing in September. Authorities say they broke up the ring last year after arresting 45 people and seizing more than $5 million, 25 kilograms of cocaine and 4,000 pounds of marijuana.The trial for 25-year-old Andrey Nevsky, an undefeated pro boxer from Boston who drove a car for Kener and Sarti, has been pushed back to May 17. Nevsky says he didn't know...
Drug mule faces death penalty | Asia News: "Drug mule faces death penaltyby admin on May.05, 2010, under ASIABANGKOK - A 54-YEAR-OLD woman from the Philippines faces the death penalty after being arrested at Bangkok's international airport for trafficking cocaine worth US$500,000 (S$688,085), police said on Wednesday.Estrelita Turado Basilio was detained at Suvarnabhumi Airport on Tuesday after flying in from the Peruvian capital Lima, according to Narcotics Suppression Police, who said they acted on a tip-of...
Fugitive Task Force seeks man on cocaine charges: Anchorage | adn.com: "Alaska Fugitive Task Force is looking for Tillman Casey Bradley, who has been indicted on federal charges of cocaine distribution and conspirac...
HK police claim record drug bust - CNN.com: "record seizure of cocaine worth about HK$337 million (US$43.4 million).The seizure stemmed from a missing person's report that led to the discovery of the cocaine in a home, police said Monday. Authorities got the missing person's report on Friday. The investigation led police to the home in the village of Tai Po Tin, police said.Investigators searched the home and found 372 kilograms of cocaine inside. Hong Kong police said that amount of cocaine could garner HK $337 million if sold on the street, making...
The Hindu : News / International : Four tonnes of cocaine seized in Peru: "Peruvian authorities seized four tonens of cocaine hidden in a shipment of powdered sulfur that was due to be loaded on a ship bound for Europe, authorities said Friday.Interior Minister Octavio Salazar told RPP radio that several people were detained in Thursday’s operation, though he withheld further information so as not to prejudice the investigation.He only added that the drug was found inside containers belonging to the port operating company Tramars...
News Talk 1240 WRTA: "32-year-old Dwayne Anthony Fabian over the past week. Investigators learned that Fabian had been staying in a home at 1409 3rd Street and had plans to bring more heroin back to Altoona from New Jersey. Fabian was taken into custody Wednesday night in the parking lot of a Chestnut Avenue grocery store following a short foot pursuit. Troopers learned that he’s wanted in New Jersey on drug charges and was awaiting sentencing on an armed robbery conviction. Fabian is lodged in the Blair County Prison on $1.25-million bai...
VHeadline.com - GN anti-drugs agent attempted to load cocaine on Air France flight to Paris: "slab of cocaine was discovered in a suitcase on which a ID slip belonging to another suitcase was stuck. Aldemaro Carrero, who works for Air France was responsible for changing the stickers. The suitcase with the cocaine had arrived at (Caracas) Simon Bolivar international airport from Bogota (Colombia). The suitcase then passed controls where the three crooked security agents were working and transferred to the flight to Paris.The press note from the...
Alleged Mexican drug dealer captured: "capture of top drug trafficker Jose Gerardo Alvarez Vazquez on the outskirts of Mexico City. Vazquez is suspected by the authorities of being responsible for the recent spike in violence in states near the capital. The drug dealer, known as 'El Indio' or 'El Chayan,' and 14 other suspected dealers were arrested in Huixquilucan, the Associated Press reporte...
Stabroek News - Venezuela raids cocaine labs on Colombia border: "Venezuelan authorities raided eight drug laboratories near the Colombian border yesterday, seizing 4.5 tonnes of cocaine in one of the largest hauls in recent times, the interior minister said.Two Colombian traffickers escaped across the border when Venezuelan helicopters swooped on the site in the state of Zulia, officials said.“This is one of the most important and biggest operations against illegal trafficking gangs in our nation,” Interior Minister Tareck El Aissami told state...
Cocaine hidden in in-flight meals | The Australian: "DUTCH police have detained 20 people for smuggling cocaine in containers for in-flight meals and waste on planes flying between the Dutch Antilles and the Netherlands, police said. 'Twenty suspects have been arrested over the last four months in the Netherlands and Bonaire,' an island territory of the Netherlands Antilles, Schiphol airport spokesman Robert van Kapel sai...
Gazette Live - News - Local News - Ex-club owner Gary Robb finally admits guilt: "Teesside nightclub owner and fugitive Gary Robb has finally admitted drugs charges after over a decade on the run in Europe. The 47-year-old nightspot owner turned property developer pleaded guilty to allowing his venue to be used for drug dealing in the mid-90s.His elderly mother Mavis walked free from court with Gary’s brother James, who has served a 12-year prison sentence for a drug offence.The brothers’ club, the Colosseum in Norton, was raided by 200 police...
The Associated Press: Alleged top drug dealer caught near Mexico City: "Jose Gerardo Alvarez Vazquez — known as 'El Indio' or 'El Chayan' — is suspected of being responsible for a spike in violence in states near the capital as part of a struggle for control of the Beltran Leyva drug cartel, the military and the federal Attorney General's Office said.Authorities said Alvarez Vazquez, 45, was arrested along with 14 other suspected drug traffickers during a Wednesday night shootout in Huixquilucan, just west of the capital.Three died in the shooting...
CBP seizes 700,000 in cocaine | arrested, cbp, immigration - Local - Brownsville Herald: "Gilberto Rivera Razo, 25, was arrested Wednesday afternoon at Gateway International bridge and after an investigation by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, was charged with possession of a controlled substance with intent to distribute, court records sho...
Heroin haul trio appear in court - Derry Today: "Three people have been returned for trial at Derry Crown Court charged in connection with the discovery of £3 million of heroin and ecstasy tablets in the city last year.A Derry man and two Dubliners appeared at the city Magistrate's Court on charges of possession of heroin and ecstasy and possession with intent to supply hero...
Penticton Western News - Cocaine smuggling brings four-year jail sentence: "Lee Myers was sentenced by Judge Anne Wallace to four years for his “lower rung” role as a drug mule importing a controlled substance. On May 5, 2009 Myers was driving a Dodge Caravan at the Chopaka border crossing near Keremeos. Asked by his cousin, Debra Lynch, to drive the van across the border, the pair were stopped by a U.S. Border Patrol agent on Nighthawk Road. They were told to use the Osoyoos border crossing to re-enter Canada as the Chopaka one was closed. Agents...
4-18-10: WoW Coast guards seize cocaine worth US$5m - Over The Limit Entertainment: "US drug enforcement agents aided by the Caribbean authorities have seized a large haul of cocaine from a sailboat off the British Virgin Islands with an estimated value of US$5million.The US Justice Department said Coast Guard officials were deployed after a tip-off about the 50 foot vessel which was making its way past the British Virgin Islands, headed north from Grenada.Officials intercepted the vessel and escorted it to the US Virgin Island of St. Thomas where...
LEAD: China to execute Japan drug smuggling convict Tuesday+: "China would execute Mitsunobu Akano, 65, who was convicted of attempting to smuggle 2.5 kilograms of stimulant drugs from China to Japan in 2006, on Monday. His death sentence was finalized in April 2009. Earlier Monday, Akano's family members apparently met him at a detention facility in the northeastern city of Dalian. A Japanese diplomatic vehicle believed to be carrying them was seen leaving the facility. If Akano is executed, it will be the first execution by China of a Japanese...
NST Online Iranian policeman, two sportsmen detained for drug smuggling: "Police foiled an attempt to smuggle drugs into the country with the detention of an Iranian police officer and two sportsmen at the KL International Airport (KLIA) this morning.Selangor Narcotics CID deputy head, Supt Abdul Razak Md Zin said the three men were detained at 8.45 this morning at the international arrival terminal by a police team from the Kuala Lumpur Narcotics CID. He said all the three suspects were behaving suspiciously during inspection on passengers and...
Lancashire drugs gang jailed for almost 20 years - The Asian News: "Shahid Mushtaq, 40, of Clarendon Road, Manchester, was jailed for nine years after being convicted of conspiracy to supply cocain...
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TheSpec.com - Local - Drug kingpin jailed 5 years for high-seas smuggling role: "drug kingpin Andre Gravelle has been sentenced to nearly five years in prison for his part in a $15-million high-seas drug smuggling ring police and the Canadian Navy broke up off Nova Scotia in September 2008.Gravelle was sentenced Wednesday in a Dartmouth court to 4.8 years after he pleaded guilty to conspiracy to import and conspiracy to possess for the purpose of trafficking.In total, seven men have pleaded guilty to the same conspiracy charges and received sentences...
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Omaha Attorney Charged with Smuggling Pot into Jail - KPTM FOX 42: Omaha News, Sports and Weather; Nebraska News, Sports; kptm.com |: "Omaha attorney accused of smuggling marijuana into the county jail turns himself in.Shortly after turning himself into the Douglas County Corrections Center, Tom Walsh waived his preliminary hearing and was released.During a December visit to the jail, deputies found 43 grams of pot on Walsh.They say he visited the jail frequently.Meanwhile, Walsh's attorney claims his client didn't know he had the pot on him.He...
27-year-old Andrea Jenkins, a mother of four who tried to smuggle 94 grams of cannabis into prison in her underwear, joined her baby’s father in prison today when she appeared in court and pleaded guilty to drug trafficking. Magistrate Sharon Frazer remanded Jenkins into custody until Tuesday, April 13 when she will decide what sentence she should impose. Jenkins was busted around 1:00 pm yesterday when she went to Central Prison in Hattieville to visit her baby’s father. Prison Officer Meisha Mendez searched Jenkins and found the cannabis in...
Malaysians nabbed for drug smuggling | The Jakarta Post: "Oen B. Giap, who works as a welder, and Wong CH, an air conditioner technician.The suspects arrived on a Cathay Pacific flight from Hong Kong on Thursday.“The suspects confessed to investigators that they were promised MYR 16,000 [Rp 45 million] if they handed the drugs to a connection in Jakarta,” Bahaduri said. “They were apparently part of an international drug-smuggling syndicate,” he...
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Is Knoxville on the human smuggling superhighway: "traffic stop on I-40 in Roane County Wednesday led lawmen to a human smuggling operation.The practice is so common on East Tennessee interstates, the area has become known as the human smuggling superhighway.'This is the main travel corridor for those two sections of the country and it comes right through Knoxville,' said Lt. Don Baird of the Tennessee Highway Patrol.Federal agents arrested the driver of a stolen passenger van, Juan Hernandez. But inside the van, 18 illegal aliens, including a...
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BBC News - Death sentence in China for South Africa drug smuggler: "Chinese court has confirmed the death sentence of a 35-year-old South African woman convicted of drug smuggling, reports the Xinhua news agency.In July 2009, Janice Bronwyn Linden was found guilty of trying to smuggle 3kg of methamphetamine through Guangzhou airport in November 2008. In denying her appeal, the Higher Court in Guangdong province said Linden would not be allowed leniency. The Supreme Court must now approve the ruling before Linden is put to death. In China, people...
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Man caught smuggling illegal immigrants in van last month pleads guilty - Local News: "Pablo Eliosa Lara, alias Hector Morales, 23, entered into a plea agreement Monday, pleading guilty to a single count of illegal transportation of an alien, according to online court records. The charge carries a maximum sentence of five years in prison and a $250,000 fine, the agreement says.A statement of facts filed with the court details Eliosa's March 2 traffic stop on I-81 north near Edinburg.Eliosa was hauling 12 other people in a Chevrolet Ventura minivan,...
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Mayport ship's unmanned Fire Scout initiates cocaine seizure | jacksonville.com: "unmanned MQ-8B Fire Scout was flying over the Eastern Pacific Ocean, the small craft locked onto a suspected drug smuggler, which it then followed for three hours.When the small “go-fast” craft met up with a fishing vessel to refuel, the embarked Coast Guard team on the McInerney moved in.As well as the seized drugs, the Navy said, the smugglers were carrying another 440 pounds of narcotics, which they dumpe...
Pot-packed lawnmowers trendy among smugglers - SignOnSanDiego.com: "latest trend in smuggling pot across the border appears to be stuffing it inside lawnmowers. For the second time in recent weeks, inspectors have discovered marijuana packed into lawmowers from which the blades have been removed.U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers at the Otay Mesa border station found Thursday’s load inside two lawnmowers in the bed of a 1996 Dodge Dakota...
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Pregnant woman arrested with cocaine at airport - Naijafeed -: "apprehended a pregnant woman and four other suspects for ingesting 6.265 kg of narcotic drugs at the Murtala Mohammed International Airport (MMIA) Lagos.The pregnant suspect Osatohanwen Esohe, 29, was detected to have ingested illicit drug with the aid of scanning machine during the screening of passengers on Alitalia flight to Rome. After observation, she expelled 27 wraps of substances that tested positive to cocaine weighing 350 grammes. Apart from one Chukwuma Kingsley Uchemadu...
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Police identify man charged with throwing suspected cocaine on the bypass | delmarvanow.com | The Daily Times: "Police have identified the driver accused of tossing small bags of suspected cocaine on the bypass Thursday afternoon.After a short chase, Wicomico County Sheriff's deputies took 31-year-old Lee Roger Bradley into custody and plan to charge him with cocaine possession, cocaine possession with intent to distribute and attempt to flee and elude police, according to the Sheriff's Office.Around 2:45 p.m., a sheriff's deputy in an unmarked...
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$1M heroin bust in the Bronx - NYPOST.com: "Four men were busted in the Bronx today for running a heroin mill out of a Sterling Avenue apartment that housed $1 million worth of drugs, authorities said. The NYPD and the Drug Enforcement Agency said they seized seven kilos of heroin that had been packaged into 50,000 ready-to-use envelopes, or “glassines.”The arrests were made in conjunction with an extensive investigation into a heroin trafficking ring operating in the Bronx.Luis Lara, 28, who is believed by authorities to be the organization's...
Mexican federal cop among cartel members sentenced in San Diego, two will forfeit $1 million each: "Jesus “Chuy” Labra-Aviles received a 40-year sentence on Monday, while Armando Martinez-Duarte, a Mexican federal police officer, drew a sentence of 18 years and 4 months in federal prison.A third member of the cartel, Jorge Aureliano Felix was sentenced to 30 years in federal prison on March 29. All were extradited from Mexico to the U.S. in December 2008.In a stark reminder of the corrupting influence of illegal drugs, the defendants also admitted...
News Tribune - News - NCI - Marseilles man sentenced on cocaine charge: "William K. Dean, 49, of 1392 Washington St. pleaded guilty to one count of unlawful possession of a controlled substance (cocaine) with intent to deliver, a Super Class X felony carrying 9-40 years with no possibility of probation.Dean was charged July 16 at an unspecified location in Marseilles by agents of the Tri-County Drug Enforcement Narcotics Team. A second count was dismissed as part of Wednesday’s plea.Under a recently changed Illinois law, Dean must serve 75 percent...
Six-year-old twins caught smuggling cocaine in underwear - Nigerian police | News.com.au: "MOTHER and her two six-year-old twins were found with cocaine stuffed down their underwear as they tried to board a plane bound for London, Nigerian police said Saturday. A spokesman for Nigeria's Drug Law Enforcement Agency said the woman and her husband were arrested after the find.'Although the man was not found with any drugs, his wife and two children, who are twins aged six years, were found with cocaine hidden in their underwear,' the spokesman said.The...
Jesus "Chuy" Labra, 61, received the maximum sentence Monday at the prosecution's request. Labra sought a 25-year prison term and apologized for his actions to U.S. District Judge Larry Burns, said his attorney, Eugene Iredale.Labra pleaded guilty in October to dealing marijuana and cocaine. He was arrested while watching his son's soccer game in Tijuana, Mexico, in 2000, when the cartel was near the height of its power. It took more than eight years to extradite him to the U.S.Labra tapped extensive connections with Colombian cocaine traffickers...
Melissa Pagan of Budd Lake was a passenger in a vehicle stopped by Officer Michael Zarro for a headlight violation on Route 46 when the officer noticed that Pagan had ingested something, which later turned out to be Heroin. She was removed from the vehicle, arrested and placed in the back of Officer Zarro's cruiser.As the officer searched the vehicle and Pagan's purse he discovered a small plastic bag containing a substance that appeared to be cocaine in the car and a glass pipe with suspected drug residue in her purse.When the officer searched...
owners/operators of commercial bus companies operating from Mexico into the Rio Grande Valley to numerous U.S. cities and their drivers, have been indicted for transporting large loads of marijuana and cocaine in specially modified commercial buses and using money laundering techniques.According to the U.S. government the indictment, recently unsealed, describes the use of specially modified commercial buses by alleged drug traffickers interested in smuggling contraband into the United States from Monterrey, Mexico, or transporting contraband from...
