Drug Smuggling

Housewife Faces Firing Squad Over $2.6 Million In Smuggled Cocaine

The Huffington Post | Andy Campbell | Posted 05.29.2012

Read More: Lindsay Sandiford, Housewife Smuggles $2.6 Million in Cocaine, Indonesia Crime, 10.4 Pounds of Cocaine, Drug Ring, Cocaine, Drug Smuggling, Video, Crime News

A British housewife faces the firing squad in Bali after she allegedly tried to smuggle $2.6 million worth of cocaine into Indonesia. Cops said Lin...

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Cash Stash In Plane Crash

AP | Posted 05.15.2012

Read More: Drug War Mexico, Video, Ecuador Drug Trafficking, Ecuador Drug Traffic, Ecuador Cocaine, Ecuador, Drug Violence, Plane Crash Ecuador, Cash Drugs Plane Ecuador, Mexico, Ecuador Drug Smuggling, Drug Smuggling, Ecuador Plane Smuggling, World News

QUITO, Ecuador — A Mexican-registered plane carrying two men, a large amount of cash and a dog crashed in Ecuador, and officials said Monday tha...

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GAME OVER: Cops Find Cocaine In XBox 360

Posted 05.07.2012

Read More: El Paso, Texas, Video, Texas Crime, Xbox 360, Drugs Inside Xbox, Carlos Valenzuela Arrested, Carlos Valenzuela, Cocaine, Drug Smuggling, Crime News

As if video games weren't addictive enough. Authorities in Texas arrested a man on Thursday after a routine traffic violation led to the discovery ...

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Prosecutors: Smugglers Brought In 10,000 Pounds Of Illegal Leaf

AP | MATTHEW BARAKAT | Posted 04.17.2012

Read More: Virginia, Yemen, Video, Drug War, District of Columbia, Khat Smuggling, Somalia, Khat, Khat Smuggling Trial, Drug Smuggling, DC News

ALEXANDRIA, Va. -- Thirteen natives of Somalia and Yemen are on trial in federal court, accused of smuggling a drug common to their homelands but ille...

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LOOK: Do These Heroin Pellets Make My Stomach Look Fat?

Posted 03.21.2012

Read More: Video, Dumb Crime, Nigeria Drug Smuggling, Internal Drug Smuggling, Heroin, U.S. Customs and Border Protection, U.S. Customs and Border Protection Agency, Slidepollajax, Nigerian Woman Heroin, Drug Smuggling, Weird News News

Want to get noticed for a rock-solid stomach? Try ingesting almost five pounds of heroin pellets. During a patdown, customs agents spotted a Niger...

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Heroin Lollipops Seized At Florida Airport

Reuters | Posted 05.06.2012

Read More: Video, Dumb Crime, Rafael Quinonez Jimenez, Mug Shots, Reuters, Heroin Lollipops, Weird Florida, Drug Smuggling, Crime News

By Jane Sutton MIAMI, March 6 (Reuters) - U.S. Customs inspectors seized 172 lollipops with heroin hidden in their centers from a jit...

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Colombia Remains World Leader In Cocaine Production, Report Says

The Huffington Post | Sara Gates | Posted 02.29.2012

Read More: Colombia Drug Cartel, Video, Colombia Top Producer Cocaine, Mexico Drug Traffic, Colombia Cocaine, Cocaine in US, International Narcotics Control Board, Colombia Drug Traffic, Colombia Drugs, Drug Smuggling, Latino Voices News

Colombia can keep its title this year as the world's number one producer of cocaine. According to the International Narcotics Control Board's 201...

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Haitian Drug Lord's Sentence May Be Slashed By Miami Court

AP | CURT ANDERSON | Posted 04.22.2012

Read More: Miami Narcotics News, Video, Jacques Ketant, Jacques Ketant Miami, Miami News, Jacques Ketant Drugs, Jaques Ketant Haiti, Jacques Beaudoin Ketant, Haiti, War on Drugs, Drug Smuggling, Miami News

MIAMI — A once-powerful Haitian drug lord imprisoned in the U.S. deserves half off his 27-year sentence because he provided key assistance in th...

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US Faces Tough Fight In Cash Smuggling Crackdown

AP | By ERIC TUCKER | Posted 02.12.2012

Read More: Cash Smuggling Ring, Video, Illegal-Smuggling, Cash-Smuggling, Mexico Cash Smuggling, U.S.-Mexico Border, Drug Smuggling, Latino Voices News

WASHINGTON -- Jeanette Barraza-Galindo conspicuously left her bags of teddy bears and throw pillows on a bus during an inspection at the Texas-Mexico ...

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Drug War Comes To Northern Border

AP | By CAROLYN THOMPSON | Posted 01.21.2012

Read More: US Canada Border, Video, Canada Border, Drug War, Drug Enforcement Administration, Northern Border, War on Drugs, Office of National Drug Control Policy, Narcotics, Drug Smuggling, Politics News

BUFFALO, N.Y. -- Federal law enforcement agencies will help tribal officers obtain equipment and training on Indian lands near the U.S.-Canadian borde...

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Top Dem On Romney: People With Money In Caymans Are 'Smuggling Drugs'

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 01.20.2012

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There is no doubt that Democrats are reveling in the fact that it has been the Republican Party, and not the Obama campaign, that has helped start the...

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Man Tries To Smuggle Heroin In Scotch Bottles

Posted 01.05.2012

Read More: Global Pulse, Drugs Found in Scotch Bottles, Heroin, Narcotics, Drugs Found at Airport, Chivas, Drug Smuggling, Travel News

Wilfer Bohorquez Rojo was arrested at Newark Liberty International Airport with nearly $700,000 worth of smuggled heroin on New Year's Eve, MyCentralJ...

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Mexican Cartel Kingpin Pleads Guilty In US Court

AP | ELLIOT SPAGAT | Posted 03.05.2012

Read More: Mexican Drug Cartels, Video, Benjamin Arrellano Felix, Money Laundering, Arellano-Felix-Cartel, Narco-Trafficking, Narcos, Racketeering, Drug Smuggling, Latino Voices News

SAN DIEGO — Mexican drug kingpin Benjamin Arellano Felix pleaded guilty Wednesday to racketeering and conspiracy to launder money, avoiding the ...

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Woman Smuggles 3 Lbs Of Cocaine In Luggage

Posted 12.22.2011

Read More: Continental Airlines, Global Pulse, Drugs, Woman Smuggles Cocaine in Shoes, Drug Smuggling, Travel News

A 19-year-old Bronx woman faces up to 40 years in prison for allegedly smuggling three pounds of cocaine in her shoes at Houston's Bush Intercontinent...

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'Coke Head' Smuggles Drugs In Locks

Posted 12.13.2011

Read More: Drug Smugglers, Drugs, Nobanda Nolubabalo, Bangkok, Cocaine, Drug Smuggling, Black Voices News

In a bold move that promised to earn her the equivalent of $1,925, 23-year-old Nobanda Nolubabalo allegedly matted 1.5kg of cocaine into her dreadloc...

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Cops: Woman Tried To Smuggle Drugs In Hollow Bible

AP | Posted 11.22.2011

Read More: Video, Dumb Crime, Mug Shots, Hollowed-Out Bibles, Weird South Carolina, Shareca Latoya Jones, Dumb Criminal Masterminds, Drug Smuggling, Crime News

LANCASTER, S.C. -- Deputies in South Carolina say a woman used two hollowed-out Bibles to try to smuggle weapons, drugs and a cell phone to a prison i...

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Honduras Becomes Regional Cocaine Hub

AP | MARK STEVENSON | Posted 12.31.2011

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TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras — On Honduras' swampy Mosquitia coast, entire villages have made a way of life off the country's massive cocaine transship...

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Gambia Convicts 8 Foreigners Of Cocaine Trafficking

AP | Posted 12.12.2011

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BANJUL, Gambia -- A court in the tiny African nation of Gambia has convicted eight foreigners of trafficking cocaine and sentenced them each to 50 yea...

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Smugglers Hand Off Drugs Through New Border Fence (VIDEO)

AP | Posted 11.27.2011

Read More: Border Crime, Marijuana, Mexico, Marijuana Smuggling, Weird Crime, Weird Mexico, Nogales, Drug Smuggling, Crime News

NOGALES, Ariz. -- A new type of border fence is apparently forcing drug smugglers to change the way they move their cargo from Mexico to the U.S. Lt....

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LOOK: $200,000 Of Cocaine In Smuggler's Stomach

Posted 11.16.2011

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A 20-year-old Irishman had a $200,000 lunch -- and now he might have to pay. Security personal at a Sao Paulo, Brazil airport on Monday detained a ...

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Immigrant Rights Groups To Illinois GOP: Tell 'Tough Sheriff' To Take A Hike

HuffingtonPost.com | Lizzie Schiffman | Posted 10.24.2011

Read More: Arrests, Republican Picnic, Illinois Republicans, Illegal Immigration, Joe Arpaio, Kendall County, Mexico, Immigration, Human Trafficking, Drug Smuggling, Politics News, Illegal Immigrants, Joe Arpaio Arrests, Illinois Republican Party, America's Toughest Sheriff, Sheriff Joe Arpaio, Sheriff, Video, Chicago News

A coalition of Illinois religious, labor- and immigrant-advocacy groups issued a statement Wednesday condemning this weekend’s Kendall County Republ...

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Pilot Detained For Smuggling 93 Pounds Of Coke

AP | Posted 10.24.2011

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MEXICO CITY -- Spanish authorities have detained a Mexican airline pilot suspected of smuggling more than 90 pounds of cocaine into the European count...

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Watch: Feds Seize Submarine With $180M of Cocaine

Posted 10.02.2011

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The U.S. coastguard intercepted a makeshift submarine carrying an estimated $180M of cocaine. The smugglers pulled the plug on the sub, but author...

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Tunisia's Ex-President Faces Two New Trials

AP | Posted 09.20.2011

Read More: Embezzlement, Former Tunisia President, Zine El Abidine Ben Ali Trials, Tunisia, Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, Tunisia Protests, Arab Spring, Drug Smuggling, World News

TUNIS, Tunisia — A Tunisian court on Thursday postponed a trial in two new cases targeting the country's ousted president over alleged corruptio...

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Cook County Jail Guard Allegedly Smuggled Weed To Inmate

Posted 09.13.2011

Read More: Jeroma Prusa, Crime, Chicago Crime, Bucktown Attack, Bucktown Bat Attack, Prison Smuggling, Marijuana Smuggling, Drugs, Bucktown, Kira Lundgren, Heriberto Viramontes, Drug Smuggling, Chicago News

A Cook County jail guard and a Chicago area woman were arrested Thursday after allegedly helping smuggle marijuana to an inmate accused of savagely be...

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