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The woman, who was not identified, hoped to sneak by police with help from her plunging neckline and tight clothes. Instead, she attracted the attention of airport security, according to a Daily Mail story. When she couldn’t explain her trip to South America, two female security officers searched her and found the fake implants, which had cocaine crystals molded into them, the newspaper reported.“They stopped her for questioning because she was so alluring and her story about why she was in South America just fell apart,” Antonio Di Greco,...
Snakes on a plane (almost) in Argentina Authorities in Argentina caught a man trying to board a plane with almost 250 poisonous snakes and endangered reptil...
Stephen Leon, 49, was stopped by border officials in his Lexus at the Channel Tunnel entrance in Coquelles in northern France on July 28 last year.He claimed he had been visiting the Continent to view churches in France and Belgium before stopping off at Calais to buy some beer.But when border officials opened one of the cans from his eight cases, they found it contained orange tablets, later found to be the Class A drug 2C-B.The relatively-unknown drug - similar in effect to ecstasy and LSD - weighed around 33lb (15kg) and had an estimated...
Italians arrested after sailboat capsizes and cocaine is recoveredAn Italian couple is under arrest in Brazil, accused of carrying 700 pounds of cocaine on their sailbo...
Customs agents seized more than six pounds of cocaine last week that two smugglers tried to take into Newark Liberty International Airport, including some that was hidden inside deflated soccer balls, the government announced today. On Thursday, customs agents were inspecting Heber Razuri Leon’s luggage after the 46-year-old Peruvian citizen had arrived at the airport from Peru, the agency said. What they found were four pair of sandals and four deflated soccer balls that were unusually heavy, and later determined to be filled with 4.9 pounds of...
Venezuelan authorities deported two Colombians accused of drug trafficking and wanted by Interpol with red alerts, the minister for justice and internal affairs, Tareck El Aissami, told press. He described the event as “one of the most important captures we have made in Venezuela”.One of the men, Maximiliano Bonilla Orozco or “Valenciano”, arrested on 27 November in Aragua state, was wanted by the United States for drug smuggling.According to Radio Mundial, from 1990 until February 2008, Bonilla Orozco was one of the main traffickers of drugs to...
Spanish and Italian police made five arrests while busting a drug-trafficking ring that for years smuggled cocaine from South America to Europe, investigators said on Friday. The group arranged for narcotics to be put on merchant ships headed to Europe. Just before the vessels arrived at their destination, the smugglers would dump cocaine packages overboard, Spanish police said in a statement. Members of the gang waiting in inflatable boats would then pick up the cocaine and take it to shore, from where it was distributed to customers in...
Anti-narcotics agents working for the US government have laundered or smuggled millions of dollars in drug proceeds to see how the system works and use the information against Mexican drug cartels, The New York Times reported Sunday. Citing unnamed current and former federal law enforcement officials, the newspaper said the agents, primarily with the Drug Enforcement Administration, have handled shipments of hundreds of thousands of dollars in illegal cash across borders. Some 45,000 people have been killed in Mexico since 2006, when its...
Curtis Warren He is suspected of operating a £300million empire built on smuggling cocaine, heroin and cannabis in deals with criminal cartels in Latin America, the Middle East and Spain. And all from his jail cell.But 48-year-old Warren faces the biggest challenge yet to his evil enterprise as police launch a double assault in the courts on his fortune.Authorities in Jersey are set to haul him before a judge next month to face a £200million...
Mexico's army seized nearly $15.4 million from the organization of the country's most powerful drug lord, Joaquin "Shorty" Guzman, officials said Tuesday, marking a rare financial blow to cartels. The seizure was revealed the same day U.S. border police revealed the third discovery in a week of drug-smuggling tunnel under the border with Mexico. In Mexico, the military said it found the cash was found in a vehicle on Nov. 18 in the northern border city of Tijuana and that it was linked to Guzman's operations. The haul marked the second-largest...
Smugglers busted with heroin haulDubai cops seize huge $18m stash bound for Europe in Jebel Ali Port Heroin with an estimated street value of Dhs65 million ($18m) has been discovered in Dubai on its way to Europe. Dubai Police foiled a plot to smuggle 130kg of the drug in wooden palettes through Jebel Ali Port. General Abdul Jalil Mahdi, head of the Anti-Narcotic Department in Dubai Police, said: “We received information from outside the country that a huge drug smuggling operation heading to Europe was coming through Dubai, hidden in a container...
In a landmark verdict by the Khorfakan Criminal Court on Monday, eight Iranians and two Pakistanis were sentenced to death for smuggling 2.5 tonnes of hashish.Another Iranian accused was served with 10 years in jail followed by deportation. Three others, aged 11, 14 and 17, also Iranians, were ordered to be deported. They are the sons of the kingpin of the gang and owner of the boat. The verdict is open to appeal in 15 days, a source at the court told Khaleej Times.Presiding judge of the three-bench court Ahmed Saeed Al Naqabi ordered the confiscation...
The first passenger, H.C.S., was an African woman travelling to Kuala Lumpur via Dubai airport with 2,590 grams of methamphetamine that she was hiding in the lining of her suitcase.Malaysian authorities thanked Dubai Police for sending information about her which led to her arrest while she was trying to smuggle the drugs into Malaysia. Police had noticed she looked scared and confused during her transit stop.A European who was transiting through Dubai airport was reported to the Kenyan authorities for acting suspiciously during his stay at the...
Alfredo Aleman Narvaez, aka El Comandante Aleman, a leader of 'Los Zezas' drug cartel in San Luis Potosi state, was arrested by the army in Fresnillo as a result of a military intelligence operation. Mexico City, Mexico. 17th November 2...
Home Secretary Theresa May (Pic:PA)THERESA May was fighting for her job last night after damning new documents fuelled the scandal of lax security at our borders.Advertisement >>Leaked emails showed that thousands of private jet passengers were allowed into the UK without going through immigration or customs.They also revealed the Home Secretary relaxed checks at airports on at least 2,500 occasions this summer.And the Mirror can reveal passport...
Rio de Janeiro’s most wanted drugs baron who controlled the drug trade in South America’s biggest favela with fear and intimidation for 30 years has been arrested after a high risk undercover police operation. Photo: APAntonio Francisco Bonfim Lopes, known as Nem, was captured after being discovered hiding in the boot of a car stopped at a roadblock, as police surrounded the sprawling Rocinha shanty-town in an attempt finally to wrest...
Under-pressure staff are said to be relying on false data and "massaging" official figures to mask the full extent of the immigration chaos at Britain's borders. The whistleblower, a middle manager who does not want to be identified, said UKBA staff lack the resources to track down asylum seekers. As a result, it is claimed, complicated immigration cases are being abandoned to save time, while detention centres employ a "one in, one out" policy that sees low-risk detainees released to allow more dangerous foreigners to be locked up. The whistleblower...
While one former Indo-Canadian border guard got five years for his part in a drug smuggling ring – another is currently on trial for his part in a different operation that brought millions of illicit drugs into Canada. Baljinder Kandola, a former Canadian border guard who was charged with being part of a cocaine-smuggling ring, was at a loss for words during much of his testimony on Tuesday to explain why he risked so much to help a millionaire auto-parts importer for nothing in return. Under cross-examination by Crown counsel James Torrance,...
Phil Stirling, shown here in 2000, told U.S. authorities there’s nothing wrong with cocaine trafficking, and said the States should mind its own business.Photograph by: RIC ERNST, PNGA self-described drug smuggler who walked away unscathed from two high-profile drug busts in B.C. has landed himself in hot water south of the border.John Philip Stirling, 60, is in a Florida jail after U.S. authorities allegedly seized 400 kilograms of cocaine...
10,000 criminals including rapists and murderers have been held at the UK border thanks to a screening system begun in 2005, a minister has said. Air and sea carriers using UK ports and airports submit passenger and crew details electronically to the e-Borders screening system, prior to travel. It results in about 52 weekly arrests, Immigration Minister Damian Green says. He praised the UK Border Agency and police for the scheme, which covers up to 55% of journeys to and from the UK. "By checking passenger and crew information before...
charity worker employed by one of David Cameron’s Big Society gurus has been arrested on suspicion of smuggling cocaine with a street value of £120,000 into Britain.Former US gang member Derrick ‘Anthony’ Mitchell was held at Heathrow this month after UK Border Agency officers allegedly discovered 3kg of drugs in his luggage. Mitchell, 37, is a duty manager at the South London-based Kids Company founded by charity boss Camila Batmanghelidjh....
Members of the Gang Task Force were used to boost security at the Vancouver Law Courts Thursday as four separate gang cases went ahead with rivals appearing on different floors. Eight members of the uniformed GTF arrived for a bail revocation hearing for accused drug trafficker Sukhveer Dhak. One floor below, a cocaine conspiracy trial continued for Dhak rival Jarrod Bacon. Supt. Doug Kiloh, of the Combined Forces Special Enforcement Unit, said the GTF officers were on hand because "there is clearly unresolved conflict between gangs." ...
Police and other agencies at Pearson are working to identify workers who are breaking the law. 1Change text size for the storyPrint this storyReport an errorCanada’s top organized crime groups are recruiting workers at Pearson and other major airports to help them smuggle drugs and contraband into the country, says the former head of a national security committee.Agents of notorious crime groups, including the Hells Angels and Vietnamese gangs,...
