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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...
Mr. Jimoh Oladega Bashir and Mrs Mulikat Adebukola has been arrested by the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos, Nigeria for smuggling 4.5kg of cocaine with their six year-old twins children to London.It was reported that the Couple boarded an Arik flight to London Heathrow airport and hidden 350 grams of cocaine in each of the six-year-old twins absorbent baby clothing. As luck ran out on them, the children began to remove the white substance as it began itching on them.The National...
Febo-Oliveras was arrested at 6:44 p.m. after police served a search warrant on his car on Union Street.When police searched him, they found 14.2 grams of cocaine in his possession. Three small plastic bags were hidden in his mouth and three larger ones were hidden in his sock, police sa...
Three people have been arrested after a 3-month-long investigation into a Coconino County heroin ring. 28-year-old Rene Lugo-Lopez (aka Weto), 29-year-old Javier Guerrero (aka Hercules), and 23-year-old Juan Salazar-Uriarte.For the past three months, the METRO narcotics unit and local ICE agents have been looking into a heroin ring that has been distributing illicit drugs into Coconino County.After hundreds of hours of surveillance and numerous undercover...
Prime Minister Bruce Golding said he believes the U.S. violated an extradition treaty, alleging its agents used illegal wiretaps in the arms- and drug-trafficking case against Christopher "Dudus" Coke.Golding said he has instructed the attorney general and justice minister to obtain a declaration from the courts on whether the treaty was violated before he signs off on the extradition order. A government statement said Thursday that officials were trying to resolve the issue.The U.S. has sought Coke's extradition since August and has suggested...
Sindh High Court (SHC) Friday allowed shifting of three convicts - a travel agent, his wife and son - to Islamabad so that they could be interrogated by a visiting Saudi Arabian delegation probing the Jeddah heroin trafficking case of 2009.“The government is directed to ensure that under no circumstances, Sarwat Hussain, Shafia Khanum and their son Faraz Hussain shall be sent to Saudi Arabia without the permission of this court,” ordered an SHC division bench comprising Chief Justice Sarmad Jalal Osmany and Justice Zahid Hamid.Hussain and his wife...
Lynn Manning, 35, of Manchester, was arrested at the prison in Concord when corrections workers reported she tried to bring a "plug" into a visit with an inmate. A plug is a small packet sealed with tape or made with a balloon in which contraband can be smuggled into a prison.Police said the plug contained several prescription pills believed to be synthetic methadone. Corrections officials said they received a tip that she would try to smuggle drugs to an inmate."Upon her arrival, we explained that to her and asked her to turn out her pockets,"...
Sukhvinder Shoker, 43, the owner of B.C.’s Careful Movers and Delivery Services, was handed a three-year sentence and three years of probation in U.S. District Court in Seattle on Friday for acting as a drug mule.Shoker’s truck was stopped at the Pacific Highway border crossing on Oct. 10, 2009 as he tried to re-enter Canada. During a search of the trailer, border officers found a compartment behind false walls. Inside were 24 cardboard boxes containing 76 kg of cocaine, worth an estimated $2.28 million U.S. on the street.Shoker initially told...
Bandar Seri Begawan - Family members of two Bruneian 'drug mules' facing a jail sentence in China plan to visit them when they have enough cash during the school holidays, according to a local diplomatic source in China.However, the source said no other information was available to the mission concerning the two Bruneians.The Narcotics Control Bureau Public Relations Officer also expressed a similar view, saying that no further information was available to them when asked on the five Bruneians facing jail sentences in China, Australia and Chile...
