Drug smuggling News
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Drug smugglers use cookies, chocolates and other tasty treats to hide and transport narcotics. Are smugglers becoming more creative or more desperate?
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Newark -
Mauricio Isidro Rivera Hernandez wasn't bringing back his grandmother's home baked cookies to share with friends. These freshly baked cookies contain a secret ingredient - 118 pellets of cocaine - and are worth $50,000.
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Paris -
Venezuelan authorities moved swiftly to make a number of arrests associated with a seizure by French police of a huge illicit stash of cocaine aboard an Air France flight from the Venezuelan capital, Caracas, bound for a Paris airport.
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Tijuana -
Organized crime groups from China, Cambodia, Laos and Thailand are quietly moving drugs, exotic animals and other contraband across the U.S. Mexico border.
But their main products are human beings forced into prostitution.
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North Korea’s rulers originally sought to use methamphetamine manufacturing and smuggling to fund desperately needed hard currency, but this may have only let unexpected genies out of the bottle.
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Russian police recently arrested a Siberian surgeon who is suspected of stealing heroin he removed from the stomach of a drug smuggler in Krasnoyarsk.
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Three women dressed like nuns have been arrested at a Colombian airport allegedly smuggling drugs. Police said the women, aged 20, 32 and 37 had two kilos of cocaine each strapped to their bodies.
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Trenton -
A routine traffic stop along New Jersey's Palisades International Parkway resulted in law enforcement officers finding 100 bags of heroin hidden in a man's rectum.
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Members of an unknown Mexican drug cartel are so confident in their ability to avoid United States Boarder Patrol and Drug Enforcement agents, they film themselves easily jacking up a portion of "security fencing" and smuggling drugs into the US.
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Bali -
Last month, Lindsay Sandiford was convicted by a Bali court of smuggling nearly 5kg of cocaine into the country. Today, the surprise sentence was announced.
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Bali -
Lindsay Sandiford, a 56-year-old British grandmother, has been sentenced to death by firing squad in Bali, Indonesia for drug smuggling. Sandiford of Gloucestershire was arrested in May last year in Denpasar airport with $2.5 million worth of cocaine.
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Bali -
As Lindy Carty languishes on death row waiting for the Governor of Texas to sign her death warrant, Clive Stafford Smith has found another innocent victim in desperate need of help.
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Drug smugglers, getting more inventive, are using pneumatic-powered cannons to shoot drug canisters to transport drugs across US borders.
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Paris -
French police have cracked a huge money laundering network linked to drug dealing. Seventeen people have been indicted and will appear in court later. One of the accused is Florence Lamblin, a Paris Deputy Mayor and leading member of France's Green Party.
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Canadian border agents have been told to stop looking for illegal drugs being smuggled out of the country, instead, focusing on illicit nuclear materials and stolen cars leaving the country.
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Los Angeles -
A California man allegedly tried to smuggle over four pounds of methamphetamine out of the U.S. into Japan by disguising it in chocolate coating and Snickers candy bar wrappers.
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London -
A London, Ontario, man has been charged with several drug-related offences after the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) Drug Section intercepted a package mailed from Turkey.
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San Diego -
U.S. Customs and Border Patrol used an x-ray machine to stop an alleged smuggling attempt this week at the San Ysidro port of entry. Agents reported finding methamphetamine hidden inside sealed cans of jalapenos and cheese sauce at the border crossing.
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U.S. authorities announced that they have discovered a second drug tunnel that links Mexico to the United States, reputed to be the route used to smuggle tons of marijuana betweent the two countries.
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San Diego -
U.S. law enforcement agents, working with their Mexican counterparts, say they have discovered a cross-border drug smuggling tunnel on the US-Mexico border. The tunnel links warehouses in Tijuana, Mexico, with warehouses in Otay Mesa, California.
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Phoenix -
A massive drug smuggling bust that began with a traffic stop in 2010 has resulted in the shutdown of the largest drug smuggling operation ever identified in the state of Arizona.
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Ajo -
Customs and Border Patrol agents arrested three drug smugglers, recovered two vehicles, and seized more then two million dollars worth of marijuana in three separate incidents in the Tucson Sector of Arizona over the weekend.
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The police in Brazil say they have arrested a man traveling from Sao Paolo to Lisbon and charged him with international drug trafficking after it was found he had swallowed 72 capsules filled with cocaine.
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San Diego -
US Customs and Border Patrol agents intercepted a shipment of marijuana found inside a tractor-trailer load of hot sauce bound for the US from Mexico, they also discovered 5 ounces of cocaine inside clam shells packed in the luggage of an El Salvadoran.
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Toronto -
Yesterday a gun and drug smuggling operation between Canada and the United States was stopped by Canadian and United States law enforcement resulting in 192 charges.
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Manila -
Despite last minute appeals made by the Philippine government for clemency, three Filipinos were executed in China on Wednesday after being convicted for smuggling drugs into the country.
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An Arizona deputy was shot and wounded in the desert outside of Phoenix Friday. An event that will only further fuel the debate on the recently passed state legislation concerning illegal immigrants.
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Samantha Orobator, the British woman sentenced to life in prison in Laos for trafficking heroin, is going home. Laos authorities are allowing her to be transferred to a British prison to serve her sentence.
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UK customs officials have released the crew of a second South African Airways plane on bail after seizing cocaine worth £250,000 on a flight from Johannesburg. Officials said it was 'highly unusual' to arrest two crews in a row for the same offence.
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Earlier this week Mexican troops seized a small submarine smuggling drugs in the Pacific Ocean. And we thought Pancho Villa was dead! Read on for an interesting tale of right over wet.
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Drug smuggling Image
Photo Courtesy Greater Manchester Police (GMP)
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Australian Federal Police
Drugs recovered from elderly Australian couple who were duped into being drug mules
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Screen Capture
Smugglers jack up a security fence and casually smuggle drugs into the United States
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Photo Courtesy Andrew Mager
These criminals are baking up a storm, but you won't find these goodies at your local bake sale.
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