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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...
