"Drug smuggling is so much more profitable [than human smuggling] and smuggling people brings all kinds of complications," Massey said.
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"Smuggling people is more profitable than smuggling guns or drugs," he says.
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And the smuggling routes for ivory are the same as the smuggling routes for drugs.
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You can read more about Francis' smuggling adventures in his new book The Art of Smuggling.
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As the costs of human smuggling soar, the smuggling networks have greater resources to evade detection.
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These searches have resulted in evidence helpful in combating terrorist activity, child pornography, drug smuggling, human smuggling, bulk cash smuggling, human trafficking, export control violations, intellectual property rights violations and visa fraud.
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A spate of dangerous smuggling cases In other Texas cities, human smuggling has become a disturbingly regular occurrence.
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"International terrorism finances itself with criminal activities that are typical of the mafia, like drug trafficking, smuggling commercial goods, smuggling oil, smuggling archaeological relics and art, kidnapping for ransom, and extortion," Roberti told Reuters.
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The CBP has not said whether smuggling was involved in this incident, although the CBP alluded to smuggling in a statement.
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The report also identified what it called "smuggling hot spots," roughly 250 hubs along smuggling routes where migrants and smugglers congregate.
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"We are talking about sophisticated organizations who are involved in human trafficking, who are involved in drug smuggling, gun smuggling," she said.
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It has many of the same characters, and the same basic concern, though this installment swaps out drug smuggling for human smuggling.
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The move has proved massively unpopular among locals in the city of Agadez and other smuggling hubs, and although migrant smuggling continues, the Nigerien government estimates that more than 403,000 people working in the migrant smuggling industry have lost their livelihoods.
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The cartels moving some focus from human smuggling to drug smuggling may not seem like a seismic shift; cartels have always smuggled drugs.
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They also said Al Hudaydah should be placed under United Nations supervision, describing it as a conduit for weapons smuggling and people-smuggling.
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For those involved in the smuggling and trafficking networks, it has been a lucrative business, according to the European Migrant Smuggling Center (EMSC).
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To use the "smuggling" excuse is to ignore the facts and punish kids for a failure in the bigger picture of combatting smuggling rings.
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In recent years, drug smuggling organizations have diversified their activities and now get a substantial portion of their revenue from human smuggling, officials said.
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Human smuggling has grown more and more violent, as border security tightens and as the smuggling of people and drugs becomes costlier and riskier.
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It's particularly ironic because, today, the United States is the world's anti-smuggling policing superpower—but its founding story is partly a smuggling story.
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So how are you going to do that exactly if you abolish the agency that&aposs charged with investigation human trafficking, drug smuggling, weapon smuggling?
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"Today, this brilliant operation reminds the world about the efficient struggle of Ukraine against smuggling and corruption, inter alia, smuggling of works of art," Poroshenko said.
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But since last year, smuggling networks inside Libya have been disrupted under an Italy-backed deal with local authorities in a former smuggling hub in western Libya.
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"Most of the fuel smuggling boats are carrying in migrant smuggling materials in front of the eyes of the Europeans," said Colonel Ayoub Qassem, a coastguard spokesman.
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Rome said his group has "baked in 200,000 barrels a day of straight smuggling" -- ship to ship smuggling, as well as countries trying to conceal locations of tankers.
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No word yet on whether the heritage collection will also feature the giant pocket that made flask-smuggling so easy (or, iPad-smuggling for the whippersnappers of today).
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Its prime beneficiary would be the smuggling organizations themselves, and the prime victims would be the children, who would be plunged into the smuggling machines on the trip north.
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As a result, there's been a 325 percent increase in minors, and a 435 percent increase in the smuggling or attempted smuggling of families and minors into our country.
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But since Abdel Fattah al-Sisi came to power, Egypt's crackdown on smuggling tunnels into Gaza has intensified, adding to Hamas' economic woes and cutting off arms-smuggling routes.
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Also on Monday at Europol's headquarters, the agency launched a new European Migrant Smuggling Center (EMSC) to support EU member states in fighting the criminal networks smuggling migrants and refugees.
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Other US investigators will help with anti-human-smuggling efforts, such as determining how organizations are profiting from smuggling and how they are moving money, according to the senior official.
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It&aposs the second largest investigative entity in the U.S. government and it investigates a lot of things, drug smuggling, human trafficking and smuggling, child pornography, export of illegal technologies.
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"Armed groups, which were party to larger political-military coalitions, have specialized in illegal smuggling activities, notably human smuggling and trafficking," experts reported to the 15-member Security Council committee.
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For those involved in the smuggling and trafficking networks, it has been a lucrative and exploitative business with revenues in the billions, according to the European Migrant Smuggling Center (EMSC).
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But since July 2017, smuggling networks inside Libya have been disrupted under an Italian-backed deal with local authorities in a former smuggling hub of Sabratha town in western Libya.
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He is also accused of "acting as an unregistered foreign agent for China, bulk cash smuggling, structuring monetary transactions and smuggling goods from the United States," the Justice Department said.
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Currently focused on the smuggling of people and arms in Libyan waters, the mission should be expanded to also cover oil smuggling and liaise with the N.O.C. to interdict rogue tankers.
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The anticipated legalization of marijuana in New Jersey will put another nail in the smuggling coffin, and we anticipate a further two-thirds drop of marijuana smuggling in the field by 20063.
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In Africa, Mokhtar "One Eyed" Belmokhtar, also known as Mr. Marlboro because of his role in cigarette smuggling across the Sahel region, used illegal drug smuggling as a way of buying weapons.
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Reuters reported last month that, despite a Thai crackdown on people smuggling and trafficking networks, people-smuggling across the Thai-Myanmar border is on the rise as people arrive in search of jobs.
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"If it's a smuggling tunnel, it doesn't need to go under Kerem Shalom," Conricus said, rejecting what Israel said was a statement from Hamas that the tunnel was to be used for smuggling.
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She found out who's been smuggling out data: It's Theresa.
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And despite regulations designed to protect them, smuggling is rampant.
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"Human smuggling is on the rise in Egypt," he said.
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The smuggling flouts U.N. sanctions that strictly limit oil imports.
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Luperon was arrested and now faces federal narcotics smuggling charges.
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What have you been doing since packing in the smuggling?
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The two Marines were arrested during that second smuggling operation.
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"The investigation into the smuggling activity is ongoing," Mack said.
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Others have found their way to Libya through smuggling networks.
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Connected crooks control petrol and cocaine smuggling, and gold mining.
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Smuggling drugs into a festival is a very stupid idea.
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They suspected it was from smuggling and sales of drugs!
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Maybe the rules are in place to counter drug smuggling?
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Paris, who was smuggling tapes into Iran calling for revolution.
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Spider smuggling is actually more common than you might think.
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Smuggling drugs through legal ports of entry is risky business.
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These families are not "smuggling" their children over the border.
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The defense also rejected allegations of smuggling and trading charges.
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The smuggling and obstruction charges were added a year later.
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Can drones carry enough to be a profitable smuggling operation?
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The stakes were high: Such smuggling was punishable by hanging.
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The area is rife with ethnic tensions and drug smuggling.
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" There is no evidence of "a massive child smuggling trade.
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It isn't protecting kids, or anyone, from transnational smuggling rings.
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But he has also engaged in occasional freelance haggis smuggling.
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Ms. Kaur's cousin was arrested last month on smuggling charges.
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Every time the wall goes up, so do smuggling profits.
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What are the consequences of the shift in smuggling routes?
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The teenager faces drug smuggling charges, the CBP statement said.
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"Drug smuggling, criminals and corruption" all are endemic, he said.
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Locals said they were part of North Korea's smuggling operations.
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Online forums are devoted to discussing smuggling generics from India.
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It's more lucrative than sex trafficking and wildlife smuggling combined.
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Even with smuggling costs, he was nearly doubling his investment.
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Following European pressure, the Sudanese Parliament adopted a raft of anti-smuggling legislation in 2014, and the rules have since led to the prosecution of some officials over alleged involvement in the smuggling business.
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"Detecting large volumes of pangolin smuggling is no easy feat and Sabah authorities are congratulated for pursuing and taking down this smuggling operation," Traffic's Southeast Asia director Kanitha Krishnasamy said in a Monday statement.
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While the 13 charge sheets are related to investigation of human smuggling, the lance corporal alleged to have distributed the drugs was not charged with aiding or conspiring in the smuggling of undocumented immigrants.
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Meanwhile, though gold smuggling in India has surged since India raised its import duty to 10 percent in August, 2013, Somasundaram said jewellery businesses have improved their organisational systems and smuggling dropped last year.
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David Wood, a former director general of British immigration enforcement, said the criminal groups behind the smuggling had turned to alternative routes as the authorities cracked down on smuggling by truck and shipping container.
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Hankerson, inmate Ramel Chase, 26, and Miguel Matos, 46, a smuggling facilitator, were among 80 people charged with smuggling in narcotics, cell phones, pornographic videos and tobacco in exchange for money and sex with inmates.
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Drug smuggling may not be the wildest allegation in Hansen's complaint.
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Could a prison near you be a nexus of sandwich smuggling?
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Lawmaker Elizabeth Quat said ivory smuggling was tarnishing Hong Kong's image.
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And today in fact we have narcotics trafficking organizations smuggling aliens.
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"Customs employees are in collusion with the smuggling," she told us.
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"I got caught many times when I was smuggling," Danbi says.
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IS fighters will retreat through human smuggling networks to other countries.
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Israel long has voiced concerns about arms smuggling to Gaza militants.
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The province sits along major smuggling routes for drugs and weapons.
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China severely punishes those caught smuggling or trafficking drugs, including foreigners.
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Turns out Smuggling has its stressful moments in the #Galaxy pic.twitter.
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Tunisian officials say it will be impossible to stop smuggling completely.
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Romanov's gang was preparing for another smuggling run across the border.
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Potency not only makes smuggling easier: it makes dealing more profitable.
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"Smuggling people is more profitable than guns or drugs," she said.
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ALLEGED NXIVM SEX CULT LEADER, 'SMALLVILLE' ACTRESS FACING HUMAN SMUGGLING CLAIMS
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The Casey smuggling a previous owner's contraband was a real possibility.
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Bringing cassava powder home is almost as difficult as smuggling cocaine.
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This included armed robbery, violating international smuggling laws, and trampling children.
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The official said the pair remained pivotal in the smuggling business.
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Mr Minniti says that combating smuggling shores up Libya's weak institutions.
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Corby was sentenced in 2005 for smuggling nine pounds of marijuana.
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Federal authorities are classifying the incident as a human smuggling case.
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Smuggling is already common, but increases the wider the price gap.
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How did Jack and Mike end up smuggling so much pot?
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As a result, human smuggling networks have spread throughout Latin America.
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Islamic State has claimed responsibility for smuggling the bomb on board.
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Many are waiting for smuggling routes to Europe to open up.
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Soriano was arrested and is facing federal charges of smuggling narcotics.
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He accuses the charities of becoming "taxis" for people-smuggling gangs.
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SPOILER ALERT: Davos' true connection to onions isn't smuggling, but conversation.
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Vietnam. Mardini and Binder were charged with people-smuggling, espionage, and
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If you are smuggling a child, then we will prosecute you.
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They have pleaded not guilty to smuggling charges in federal court.
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Mr. Martin is serving six years in prison for smuggling drugs.
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The pair were recently charged with illegally smuggling dogs into Australia.
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They are likely not part of an expansive drug smuggling network.
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Still, the possibility of inadvertently smuggling who knows what still remains.
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It is well funded by illicit smuggling and other revenue streams.
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Israel said the restrictions were necessary to stop boats smuggling weapons.
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Several weeks later, the charges were increased to attempted drug smuggling.
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The Kurdish record features internecine conflicts, smuggling, sanctions-busting and banditry.
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Drug and food smuggling also generate revenue, including for the military.
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While the flow of migrants has slowed, drug smuggling remains constant.
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"CBP cannot stress enough the dangers of smuggling people," Flores said.
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The main industry — if you can call it that — is smuggling.
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Six people were arrested and are facing federal drug-smuggling charges.
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That's also how a lot of the smuggling was taking place.
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HSI is ICE's investigative unit, and it deals with a wide range of cross-border criminal enterprises, including financial crimes, money laundering and bulk-cash smuggling; commercial fraud and intellectual property theft; cyber crimes; human rights violations; human smuggling and trafficking; immigration, document and benefit fraud; narcotics and weapons smuggling/trafficking; transnational gang activity; export enforcement; and international art and antiquity theft.
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The new resolution, approved late on Thursday, is designed to make explicit that fuel smuggling is illegal, so that smuggling vessels "can be identified, blacklisted, and prevented from disembarking their cargo," said a senior Western diplomat.
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The European police agency Europol sees such cases often; the 2100 deaths were the worst but far from the only time human smuggling claimed casualties, Robert Crepinko, the chief of Europol's human smuggling unit, told reporters.
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"ISIS members were the richest, and they were able to afford the smuggling fees," said Steve Thomas, a former British military officer who is the firm's Turkey-based specialist on criminal and smuggling networks in war zones.
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"They're a very, very violent gang that has ties to the border involved in human smuggling, extortion, drug smuggling, with a lot of the money flowing back to fuel the violence in Central America," Bennett told CNN.
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They weren't in Phoenix, Arizona when these organizations were holding people hostage, raping the women, molesting the children, killing people that couldn't pay their smuggling fees, doubling their smuggling fees after they got to the United States.
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They weren't in Phoenix, Arizona, when these organizations were holding people hostage, raping the women, molesting the children, killing people that couldn't pay their smuggling fees, doubling their smuggling fees after they got to the United States.
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" Pompeo also called on UN members to crack down on other forms of sanctions evasion, "including the smuggling of coal by sea, smuggling by overland borders and the presence of North Korean guest workers in certain countries.
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Meanwhile, Venezuela has become a base for organised crime and drug smuggling.
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Nevertheless, people continue to incorporate tiny flying machines into their smuggling operations.
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Smuggling of drugs and humans has become commonplace along the southwest border.
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The reduction is necessary to bring down the smuggling and unauthorised sales.
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This is the second drug-smuggling bazooka police have found in Mexico.
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There's no doubt that wildlife smuggling is thriving on the surface web.
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"The council members are themselves part of the smuggling syndicate," report said.
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The block agreed on continuing operations against people-smuggling in the Mediterranean.
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Weapons-smuggling is rife; particularly, says a diplomat, of Saudi-supplied arms.
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The challenge is to manage smuggling while leaving space for small traders.
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The other step is to crack down on smuggling and tax evasion.
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Sadigov said the journalist was charged with illegal border crossing and smuggling.
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Small, with jaundiced eyes, he was practiced in the art of smuggling.
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The most flourishing local business was the smuggling of methamphetamines into Bangladesh.
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Solo is about the events that shaped him into a smuggling scoundrel.
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If I start smuggling, I put myself and Humane Borders at risk.
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In 2011, Cameron, then 32, pleaded guilty to smuggling drugs into prison.
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His sentence was extended after he confessed to smuggling drugs into prison.
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It appears to stem from a shift in smuggling tactics and capacity.
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He said a U.N. presence in the ports would prevent arms smuggling.
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In the interior merchants have prospered from smuggling and trading in contraband.
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Tolerance for human struggling and human smuggling and trafficking is not humane.
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But this piece of contraband sets a completely new standard in smuggling.
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Even Johnny Depp thinks his dog-smuggling apology video is Oscar-worthy.
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It's easy to overlook the shift burners mark within the smuggling underground.
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This wasn't the first time carrots were used in drug smuggling attempts.
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Once hired, they then facilitated drug smuggling across the U.S.-Mexico border.
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The police have been overlooking much of the smuggling economy in Izmir.
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His sentence was extended after he admitted to smuggling drugs into prison.
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ISIS has smuggling oil and antiquities out of the territory it controls.
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The difficulties of bringing a people-smuggling kingpin to book are immense.
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He stands accused of smuggling 222 kilograms of methamphetamines, according to Reuters.
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UN bases are plastered with posters warning against molesting children and smuggling.
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Consider, for example, Iran's smuggling of weapons to militants throughout the region.
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There have long been concerns about the use of drones for smuggling.
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According to the report, the lack of transparency may also conceal smuggling.
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Smuggling cocaine is like the lowest hanging fruit in the drug trade.
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What do car tariffs have to do with drug smuggling or immigration?
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Smuggling hash and petrol seems lucrative, but timber sounded cumbersome and complicated.
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But drug and weapons smuggling into the country is a serious threat.
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This counter-smuggling tactic in turn forced guides to change their techniques.
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We knew Daniel had taken to remote control smuggling in downtown Nogales.
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And there are the repugnant practices of people smuggling and people trafficking.
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Agents say they are trying to protect migrants from dangerous smuggling rings.
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"Human smuggling both ways is definitely common in both directions," Brant continued.
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It wasn't drug smuggling or gun running that got Nicholson's character slashed.
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The smuggling is part of what officials say is a wider scheme.
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That's why the Amazon has become a smuggling route for illegal drugs.
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Mr. Schellenberg had appealed a 15-year prison sentence for smuggling methamphetamines.
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And it's not as if smuggling is the only threat apes face.
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Why should they stop smuggling without being offered other means to survive?
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Wafa paid $5,000 from his savings to an illegal human smuggling operation.
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Despite the smuggling expenses they paid, suddenly, they had nowhere to go.
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Most migrants therefore try to enter the United States through smuggling routes.
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Last month, a FedEx pilot was detained on charges of weapons smuggling.
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And there are the repugnant practices of people-smuggling and people trafficking.
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Back above ground, catapults are one of the most spectacular smuggling methods.
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Less common methods for smuggling drugs include catapults and air compression guns.
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ICE combats transnational gangs, drug smuggling, human trafficking, child exploitation, and more.
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The streets seethe with smuggling cartel agents, who openly pitch their services.
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Both the Zawiya branch of Libya's Petroleum Facilities Guard (PFG) and the local coastguard have been accused of involvement in fuel smuggling, which according to the U.N. investigators overlaps with lucrative smuggling of migrants from Libya to Italy.
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MOVEMENT STAGE 1: CASH TO CURRENCY EXCHANGE TO GLOBAL WIRES Initially, IS can be expected to execute bulk cash-smuggling through its elaborate Hawala informal money-transfer network, utilizing numerous couriers supported by expert smugglers along human smuggling networks.
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Shenzhen customs was quoted by the Legal Daily as saying it would closely monitor new types of smuggling with high-tech devices and enhance their capability with technical equipment, including drones and high-resolution monitors, to detect smuggling activity.
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And were we complicit with human smuggling if we agreed to his services?
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He faced additional charges after he confessed to drug smuggling during his incarceration.
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"This fight isn't really about stopping cell phone smuggling into prisons," said Meinrath.
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Australia, Roberge could have earned as much as $100,000 for smuggling the drugs.
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Migrant deaths have risen to record levels along the Libya-Italy smuggling route.
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One of them is dedicated to smuggling people and the other smuggles drugs.
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The fuel smuggling costs the Libyan economy $750 million annually, according to NOC.
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There also are smuggling rings of other types, including those transporting exotic animals.
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The organization specialized in smuggling people who said they were Orthodox Syrian Christians.
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How did the smuggling world back then differ to how it is now?
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Last month, Bulgaria also charged four police officers with smuggling of illegal migrants.
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Indeed, if it did, legalisation might backfire: smuggling and so crime would continue.
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If smuggling and collecting paid the bills, murder was what set him apart.
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His sentence was later extended after he confessed to smuggling drugs into prison.
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It estimates the smuggling cost the economy at least $750 million each year.
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The team arrested Romanov immediately, and he quickly admitted to running smuggling operations.
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Canada could also use its new navy muscle to tackle migrant smuggling worldwide.
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It has expanded into extortion, human smuggling, and firearms trafficking, among other crimes.
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Many remain involved in other forms of criminal activity, such as drugs smuggling.
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Did you think it was smuggling in any notions that are unintentionally wrongheaded?
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Until recently, people-smuggling went on quite openly in Agadez, says Mr Miango.
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Nevertheless, people-smuggling has been driven underground, rather than dealt a lasting blow.
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The finance ministry did not respond to requests for comment on gold smuggling.
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Kevin plays a catering delivery boy who is actually smuggling in smoke bombs.
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With few chances for legal employment, tribes in Fezzan have turned to smuggling.
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But after he confessed to smuggling drugs into prison, Cameron's sentence was extended.
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That is a hard sell for Brussels, given the region's history of smuggling.
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A court in northern China sentenced a Canadian to death for smuggling drugs.
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One said they did not think gold smuggling was a problem for them.
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Turkey is on a major smuggling route for heroin from Afghanistan to Europe.
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One senior EU official predicts that Britain would see "an explosion of smuggling".
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The village is reputed to be the smuggling capital of the Nile Delta.
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Their region is rife with ethnic and tribal fighting, and with smuggling gangs.
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"They try to hide them in their luggage or handbags ... smuggling," Tang explains.
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It also helps if your songs are about Satanism, sex, and drug-smuggling.
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The people smuggling crises and terror crises of the past five, ten years.
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Rosero was also in charge of smuggling drug money from Mexico to Colombia.
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Some of the money allegedly came from smuggling and illegal exploitation of workers.
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New gangs now include Moroccans, who use their established smuggling routes for cannabis.
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Even well-policed western European nations are failing to combat tobacco smuggling rings.
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This has seen smuggling groups thrive in the city until now, he added.
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Previous crack-downs in Madre de Dios have spawned contraband smuggling into Bolivia.
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When you were smuggling ecstasy to other cities, how would you do it?
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Top outbound, casual smuggling states are New Hampshire, Delaware, Vermont, Idaho and Indiana.
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He stands accused of international human smuggling and running a transnational criminal organization.
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Comanche heads up one of the Sinaloa cartel's smuggling cells in Ambos Nogales.
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Lapis lazuli and gold mines, coupled with drug-smuggling, add to the complexity.
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The migrants said the Special Deterrence Force handed them to various smuggling rings.
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These activities included alien harboring, fraud, allowing drug smuggling and selling immigration documents.
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Iran claims the vessel it seized was smuggling fuel, according to Iran's PressTV.
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Columbia, on charges of large-scale cocaine and currency smuggling, but as far
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Human smuggling is big business in Pakistan and other poor South Asian countries.
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We plugged the hole of the worst smuggling route on the entire border!
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India built it to try and stop smuggling, illegal immigrants, and terrorist attacks.
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"If such smuggling continues, local (maize) supplies will continue to dwindle," said Mbewe.
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It wasn't immediately clear whether Plummer was convicted for possession, smuggling or both.
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Food, fuel, and medicine have dwindled, especially after the shutdown of smuggling tunnels.
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The two broke the golden rule of smuggling and dipped into their stash.
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But what's happened recently, in some borderland areas, is remote-guided human smuggling.
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She was detained and charged with "suspicion of smuggling marijuana residue" into Canada.
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Eight individuals were detained on federal charges in connection to the smuggling ring.
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We learned that smuggling and efforts to combat it have become intensely individualized.
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If they had, they would have easily learned of their drug smuggling connections.
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The official also sought to draw a distinction between child smuggling and trafficking.
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Smuggling networks have emerged in Italy's larger northern cities, like Milan, as well.
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Other women who worked at the prison took part in similar smuggling schemes.
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The police recently arrested scores of people suspected of smuggling gold to Turkey.
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The witness testified about smuggling 2400,237 kilos of cocaine into the United States.
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The witness testified about smuggling 22018,000 kilos of cocaine into the United States.
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Far fewer organizations have used pets as vessels for drug smuggling, investigators said.
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"Smuggling is rampant—it's widespread globally," conservation biologist Sergio Henriques told the outlet.
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At one point the officer demanded to know if Dakhil was organ smuggling.
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Illegally poaching, smuggling or trading pangolins, for example, can carry lengthy prison terms.
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She told authorities she was to be paid $3,500 for smuggling the meth.
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Israel says the measure is required to prevent arms smuggling by Palestinian militants.
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That makes meat smuggling more profitable than at any time in the past.
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But the statement did not specify what meat the six men were smuggling.
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Under Mr. Kelly's directive, the parents could be charged with smuggling or trafficking.
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It is particularly concerning how cartels have taken over the human smuggling business.
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Justice Department auditors began scrutinizing how A.T.F. agents managed their tobacco smuggling investigations.
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In 2013, Logan pleaded guilty in Canada to a related wildlife smuggling crime.
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The new prices also will not dissuade rampant smuggling of fuel into Colombia.
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As a result, we can't catch all the drug smuggling we know about.
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Eleven men transporting the cattle were arrested and accused of smuggling the animals.
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V.E.M.L., 39, was raped in the South Texas brush by a smuggling guide.
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Its bulbous cheeks make it look as if it's smuggling delicious fluffy marshmallows.
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For example you have operations that specialize in smuggling on the US border.
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John Brown, a pillar of Providence's upper crust, made a fortune on smuggling.
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Although the brothers are charged with alleged drug smuggling, sources within the investigation claim that it has also connected them to the smuggling of ivory and rhino horn, and believe that Mr Ali was a link in their bigger network.
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China arrested 259 people for smuggling foreign waste last year, with some criminal gangs accused of taking containers of electronic waste from Hong Kong to North Korea and then smuggling them across the border into China in order to circumvent restrictions.
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His group faces charges it ran a fuel-smuggling ring a decade ago and Dogan and Isbank's Ersin Ozince, 64, face up to 24-1/2 years in prison on charges of setting up a criminal gang, smuggling and fraud.
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Police know that a smuggling car headed into a major metropolitan area is likely to be smuggling drugs; a car headed on the way out of the metropolitan area, on the other hand, is likely to be carrying the cash.
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At the appeal hearing, prosecutors said the sentence was too light and improper, arguing Schellenberg was highly likely to have been part of a international drugs smuggling operation and had played a major role in smuggling the drugs, the statement said.
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Only nine of the 13 Marines charged have been accused of conspiring or aiding in the smuggling of undocumented or illegal immigrants, and it is unknown how the charges for the other four Marines relate to the human smuggling investigation.
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Prosecutors accused him of smuggling 150,000kg (330,000 pounds) of cocaine into the United States.
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Others traveled overland along well-worn smuggling routes from Pakistan through Iran and Iraq.
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Another Crystal City councilman was indicted in January on charges of smuggling undocumented immigrants.
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He has self-published two novels about fishing and smuggling in the Florida Straits.
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The victims have been accused of either smuggling cows for slaughter or carrying beef.
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Israel says the naval blockade is necessary to protect its citizens from weapons smuggling.
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Dozens of guards have faced state or federal charges for assault or smuggling contraband.
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The victims have been accused of either smuggling cows for slaughter or eating beef.
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They are the ones smuggling the drugs when it&aposs such an open border.
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Near the Algerian and Libyan borders, fuel smuggling is also rife and opportunities scarce.
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Cartels fight to control trafficking routes, human smuggling, extortion and kidnapping, among other activities.
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"One of our top priorities is to investigate international human smuggling worldwide," she said.
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Its manager had begun smuggling refugees, and fell into debt with a Turkish mafia.
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Unless you're in some sort of underground smuggling ring, you're likely not being targeted.
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If countries act together, it should be possible to minimise drug tourism and smuggling.
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But they did, nearly a year later, decide to go after his smuggling operation.
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Many pass through Agadez in northern Niger, where people-smuggling is a vibrant trade.
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Crucially, some countries strengthened efforts to detect and curb smuggling at the same time.
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Border police foiled numerous human smuggling attempts off the coast of Zliten last year.
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If the purpose is to prevent drug-smuggling, the case is a bit stronger.
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Another inmate was sentenced for smuggling drugs to her husband in a different jail.
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For the poor in Vietnam, human smuggling offers a chance at a better life.
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Azeri authorities accuse Mukhtarli of smuggling, illegal border crossing and violence against police authority.
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"My boyfriend is smuggling it in his rectum," she joked of actor Michael Sheen.
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It pumps 3.8m barrels a day of oil, and it is good at smuggling.
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He also mentioned "territorial expansion" among evils such as drugs, people smuggling and terrorism.
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Last month Bulgarian authorities smashed another gang suspected of smuggling migrants into Western Europe.
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The lady next to me was being interrogated for smuggling in a lone banana.
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Zuwara was a top departure point until a local backlash against smuggling in 2015.
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Smuggling cocaine brings untold riches to all the key members in the plaza system.
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Prosecutions for people- and drug-smuggling declined as those for petty immigration violations rose.
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In the eastern region of Abengourou, even cocoa farmers are smuggling cashews, farmers said.
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"It's an industry ruled by mafias, where smuggling is the chief operation," Freites said.
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Another business opportunity that organised criminals will be eyeing with interest is people-smuggling.
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The flaw worked by smuggling more complex code into images hosted on the service.
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Vaquita deaths have risen alongside the smuggling of another endangered marine creature, the totoaba.
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But now the weather was clearing and the people-smuggling business was picking up.
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They found her plastic envelopes of daily vitamins and arrested her for drug smuggling.
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This created a market in human smuggling and trafficking — especially of young Chinese women.
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The 28-year-old male driver is behind bars facing charges of narcotics smuggling.
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It was then, and is today, a porous border for all manner of smuggling.
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Rosero was eventually indicted for conspiracy, drug smuggling, and money laundering and pleaded guilty.
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He said Mr. Hernández had been involved in drug smuggling scheme until this month.
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An acclaimed scholar, he has written academic books on war, crime, borders, and smuggling.
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While Libya's financial resources are dwindling, the criminal networks, including human smuggling, are booming.
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In 2014, seven other people were charged in the same smuggling ring, prosecutors said.
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The consequences of inaction look clear: tighter borders, more people-smuggling, misery for refugees.
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Sabratha was previously the foremost smuggling hub for migrants attempting to cross the Mediterranean.
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The smuggling of contraband into and within correctional facilities is not a new phenomenon.
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Once again, San Antonio has become an unwilling epicenter of human smuggling and trafficking.
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Police say they believe the bombers were retaliating against a crackdown on people-smuggling.
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In South Africa smuggling is less of a problem, but policy is little better.
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In 2015, New York state had the highest inbound smuggling rate at 57 percent.
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North Carolina, Missouri, Virginia, Georgia and Louisiana appear to be leading commercial smuggling exporters.
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Employees in both states were caught humping inmates and smuggling in drugs and cellphones.
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Military checkpoints on the border with Colombia already skim off cash from smuggling networks.
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This, they announced, was "the General," one of the kingpins of international human smuggling.
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The only thriving business is the smuggling of desperate migrants into Europe from Tripoli.
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Will Bernard confront Theresa about the data she's been smuggling out of the park?
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A security officer was caught accepting bribes in exchange for smuggling foreigners through security.
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Another officer was charged with smuggling more than 100 kilograms of marijuana through checkpoints.
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Smuggling, particularly of petrol from Algeria, by some accounts makes up half the economy.
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Additionally, the Black Sea port of Odessa is historically a center for weapons smuggling.
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Tractor-trailers were, and continue to be, a popular method of smuggling in narcotics.
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We all know the reality is not to only "deter" the smuggling of children.
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Smuggling, though, is at the heart of the criminal enterprises surrounding global refugee crises.
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Indeed, an investigative report implicated Australian customs agents for smuggling tobacco into the country.
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TSA catches man smuggling a handgun hidden in a DVD player at JFK Airport
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But the area is a hub of international smuggling (weapons, drugs, undocumented passengers, etc.).
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Police said they could not verify the allegation that the men were smuggling cows.
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Authorities in southern Germany have arrested two Syrian men on suspicion of people smuggling.
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I learned enough about the drug smuggling business to know how it generally operated.
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Activists on the ground are aware of too many cases trafficking, smuggling and disappearance.
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I've seen comments from people saying I'm smuggling drugs, diamonds or washing dirty money.
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In addition to drugs, the smuggling of people is another challenge for law enforcement.
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Even with the import ban, smuggling continues as long as a domestic market exists.
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One person was indicted on two counts of obstruction and one person for smuggling.
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"It's not to get rich," Mr. Garcia said about the smuggling of legal products.
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Smuggling tied to North Korea will remain difficult to eradicate, officials and experts said.
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Wilson Witzel of Rio de Janeiro, have endorsed draconian tactics against drug-smuggling gangs.
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Smuggling tunnel — One of Mr. Guzmán's favorite methods to smuggle drugs was a tunnel.
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Muammar el-Qaddafi, Libya's coast has became a hub for human trafficking and smuggling.
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North Korea, meanwhile, is increasingly turning to smuggling to acquire the fuel it needs.
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He said rice smuggling across the western border threatened his policy of self-sufficiency.
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He said rice smuggling across the western border threatened his policy of self-sufficiency.
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The smuggling operation grew enough that he began employing his younger brothers to drive.
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Mr. Ramirez, who presented his license, said that he was accused of human smuggling.
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Through 2628, we estimate, 28503 percent of New York's cigarette consumption resulted from smuggling.
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The police say this new policy has already exposed several cases of wildlife smuggling.
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The Rio Grande Valley is among the busiest smuggling routes on the Mexican border.
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But on previous occasions, Iran has refused to respond to inquiries about the smuggling.
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Pastors are fixing smuggling routes for arrested protesters whose passports have been taken away.
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Mr. Khan, a Muslim, stood accused of smuggling cows, which are sacred to Hindus.
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It's then on to Europe via well-trod smuggling routes through Niger and Libya.
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The CBP knows this because the children smuggling their peers brazenly share their exploits.
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The gangs were believed to be fighting for control of lucrative drug smuggling routes.
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Mainland police said the person detained was part of a mobile phone smuggling syndicate.
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Mainland police said the person detained was part of a mobile phone smuggling syndicate.
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Tunnel building goes on (and, presumably, so does the construction and smuggling of weapons).
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Chinese authorities said the man was suspected of involvement in a phone-smuggling syndicate.
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Convicted Russian national Viktor Bout spent years perfecting the art of international arms smuggling.
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High taxes and outright bans will lead to large-scale smuggling and other lawlessness.
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The proposed reduction in money comes as the smuggling problem has become more urgent.
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Mr. Lesnak specialized in investigating tobacco smuggling, one of the A.T.F.'s core missions.
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The company said it had "no involvement or participation" in smuggling or money laundering.
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Another Canadian, Robert Lloyd Schellenberg, faces a death sentence in China for drug smuggling.
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That could include identifying ships that are smuggling drugs, weapons or humans, says Jayanath Colombage, a former commander of Sri Lanka's navy during its fight against the Tamil Tigers, who partly funded their insurgency with such smuggling until being defeated in 2009.
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Besides smuggling people, their crimes also include document forgery and official bribery, the report said.
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Onslaught of bombs and bullets Investigators like Adel have developed a kind of smuggling playbook.
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Law faces up to 20 years in prison if convicted of the felony smuggling charges.
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She visited clinics in Holland and in France, and began smuggling diaphragms into this country.
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BERLIN – Authorities in southern Germany have arrested two Syrian men on suspicion of people smuggling.
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"The only thing that will stop smuggling is the removal of the subsidies," he said.
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Southern Command, based in South Florida, regularly works with DHS to dismantle immigrant smuggling networks.
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The government has argued a hardline approach is necessary to stop the people-smuggling trade.
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ICE also engages in anti-smuggling efforts, money laundering investigations and arresting criminal illegal aliens.
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To prevent students smuggling smartphones into exam rooms, schools have installed CCTV and metal detectors.
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Danbi Kim was just 22 years old when she started smuggling products into North Korea.
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But this is only one reason they are increasingly becoming a smuggling priority over humans.
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Even though the cannabis industry is rapidly growing, there's still a massive issue with smuggling.
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Officials said 11 adults had serious criminal histories including child cruelty, murder or human smuggling.
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The journalist was charged by the Azeris with illegal border crossing and smuggling, Sadigov said.
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Moreno said he still hasn't seen any evidence from Border Patrol about the smuggling allegations.
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Little did they know, however, that drinking and smuggling were the least of Romanov's secrets.
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Closer to the border, the rest of the smuggling team was prepping in rented sheds.
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On May 222, he was convicted of smuggling and sentenced to five years in prison.
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Prosecutors said the profits from U.S. collectors were then used to further the smuggling activity.
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Now, they've signed on to a new smuggling run, this time to a mining planet.
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The 37 extraditable offences include murder, sexual offences, kidnapping, corruption, money laundering, fraud and smuggling.
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European officials today say they need the papers for security, and to curb people-smuggling.
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It's not like I'm smuggling weapons or drugs or anything, but I'm just on edge.
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Some locals may profit, but gold smuggling fuels violence in the country's large, unstable, neighbour.
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Shanghai customs arrested three individuals suspected of smuggling scales to Asia from Africa since 2015.
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That's why the twist of what Ruby, Annie, and Beth are smuggling seems so appropriate.
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The time was when smuggling at least provided Algerians near the border with a living.
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They arrested the driver, a 41-year-old Mexican national, for suspicion of currency smuggling.
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Iran did say it had seized another smaller ship it said was engaged in smuggling.
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Before the first few episodes are over, we glimpse smuggling, suicide, spying, betrayal and murder.
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It has been a source of large-scale smuggling and trafficking of people toward Europe.
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A spokesperson for Colombia's Defense Ministry declined to comment on the allegation of weapon smuggling.
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The Gulf cartel controls a lucrative smuggling corridor along the US-Mexico border into Texas.
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Experts say that the smuggling of Egyptian artifacts has increased since the 2011 Arab Spring.
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That is evident in how the city's inhabitants are finding profit in other smuggling ventures.
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THE shifting sands of the Sahara have long been crossed by trade and smuggling routes.
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So the next time you're considering smuggling snacks in your extra large purse, get creative.
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They have caught the middle bot smuggling the kudzu from overseas, my trusty kudzu purveyor.
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"The CLAPs are legalizing smuggling on the part of public officials," said legislator Olivia Lozano.
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So far nothing, bar the odd drug-smuggling speedboat, appears to be crossing the Adriatic.
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Officials say Loaiza was using "sophisticated" smuggling devices to hide the 22 kilos of coke.
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But critics say the focus skewed heavily toward funding for tackling drug smuggling and gangs.
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Some were traffickers, and he soon followed their example, succumbing to the allure of smuggling.
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Turns out, even Johnny Depp knows his dog-smuggling apology video was a bit awkward.
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The Rio Grande Valley is one of the busiest smuggling hubs on the Mexican border.
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Asked what's happened to victims in past smuggling cases, Staton said each case is different.
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"Horrific scene overnight in San Antonio where a human smuggling attempt turned deadly," Doggett tweeted.
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Nevertheless, authorities periodically uncover crimes including money laundering, drug smuggling and human trafficking, newspaper report.
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Are they willing to enforce Burmese law and abandon illicit activities such as drug-smuggling?
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Chase said he had managed a smuggling ring and bribed guards to carry in contraband.
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It said the vessel was accused of smuggling a million liters (264,000 gallons) of fuel.
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Last month, a different council member, Marco Rodriguez, was arrested on charges of human smuggling.
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San Antonio's KENS5 reports that Rodriguez admitted to smuggling undocumented immigrants across the U.S. border.
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Members were accused of smuggling fentanyl and other opioids to the United States via courier.
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But little has changed since and instead shooting incidents associated with smuggling have been increasing.
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The grisly discovery had all the signs of a human-smuggling operation turned tragically wrong.
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In a separate smuggling investigation, prosecutors in Rome discounted Atta's testimony about Mered as unreliable.
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But the country's informal economy now includes many cabs and vans used for human smuggling.
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When Hitler rose to power in 1933, Mr. Stanton's mother began smuggling cash to Switzerland.
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Cloud: Congress has allowed drug smuggling, human trafficking at the border 10:42 a.m. Rep.
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Those could include changes in smuggling routes, sector-by-sector crackdowns or even weather conditions.
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Now Marine Corps prosecutors are trying to salvage cases tied to a human-smuggling investigation.
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Green also says the Museum of the Bible was not involved in the smuggling scandal.
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The U.S. also has not yet joined Mexico in sanctioning those involved in migrant smuggling.
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The paper said extending the options for deportation of asylum seekers would discourage people-smuggling.
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Illegal fishing, sea piracy and armed robbery, drug and human smuggling have assumed staggering proportions.
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A third Canadian citizen has been put on death row in China for smuggling drugs.
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A dubious contractor with a side business of smuggling criminals will fly Trish to Thailand.
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That, or just smuggling in some of those exciting foreign condoms we can't get here.
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Smuggling an outside snack into a movie theater is far too often seen as taboo.
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We must topple this suffocating capitalistic tyranny, one act of Utz-smuggling at a time.
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They usually make the voyage through people-smuggling networks via Indonesia, often in rickety vessels.
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Timeline In November 2018, Chinese authorities convicted Schellenberg of being an accessory to drug smuggling.
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Then he was accused of smuggling contraband at Rikers Island, adding to his legal troubles.
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The insurgents, some with roots in Sinai's long tradition of smuggling, skirt through the desert.
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"Some of these vehicles are modified to hide known or used smuggling techniques," he said.
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"If I was still living there, I would be smuggling dope for sure," he says.
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Mr. Eitan also played an important role in smuggling Jewish refugees from Nazism into Palestine.
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Changes in U.S. policy, including the detention of apprehended aliens, drive up the smuggling fees.
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A third Canadian, Robert Lloyd Schellenberg, was sentenced in January to death for drug smuggling.
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Besides ivory, the network is also suspected of smuggling 48 large hocks, or elephant legs.
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Immigration advocates called the new enforcement policy a heartless way to try to reduce smuggling.
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If it doesn't improve, I will have to find a smuggling route to another country.
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Three other men lounged on a couch, all of them heads of powerful smuggling families.
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The two governments agreed on a plan to go after arms smuggling at the border.
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Prison officials can take steps to block the first two kinds of smuggling, of course.
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His office accuses them of irregularities including smuggling Venezuela's highly-subsidized oil to Caribbean islands.
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But still, she said, the term "illegal alien" was mostly associated with prohibition and smuggling.
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The great majority of those 400 were charged with immigration violations, not smuggling-related crimes.
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Regions close to Venezuela's borders have resorted to smuggling and cross-border trade for survival.
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Normally, agents use government-controlled funds known as "churning accounts" to finance tobacco smuggling investigations.
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This "Carmen" explores tensions over national borders and portrays the Gypsies as criminals smuggling cocaine.
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Police have charged the 58-year-old tractor driver from Houston with smuggling of persons.
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It's time for Congress to step up and crack the whip against international smuggling rings.
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The province has large deposits of minerals and sits on major smuggling routes into Pakistan.
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Last week, the administration issued sanctions against Chinese nationals involved in fentanyl production and smuggling.
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The top outbound smuggling state in this year's study is New Hampshire, at 85 percent.
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Absent smuggling, New York would generate an additional $1.5 billion in cigarette excise tax revenue.
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One notable example of smuggling was by Gregory Logan, a retired Royal Canadian police officer.
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But illegal crossings and smuggling continued and crime in the border region continued to rise.
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Their eldest daughter, Heather Cho, is also facing charges of smuggling and falsifying immigration documents.
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Ji fled China in May last year, a few days after being charged with smuggling.
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Fentanyl coming from Mexico is often hidden in automobile compartments, much like conventional drug smuggling.
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And it reportedly controls valuable drug-smuggling routes, money-laundering outfits and other illicit trades.
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The A.T.F. tried setting up front companies to infiltrate smuggling rings, but with limited success.
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Mr. Rolle said the ship appeared to be an American vessel engaged in people-smuggling.
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He and nine others were charged with drug smuggling in November 2015, according to Reuters.
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Verdict: Smuggling antiquities is bad enough, but using your day job's vehicle to do it?!
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That isn't an efficient smuggling method, and you really can't smuggle large quantities of drugs.
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The coalition claims that the Houthi rebels are also smuggling Iranian weapons through the port.
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But drug smuggling here is nothing new; it's a trade that runs deep in Albania.
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This includes his father, who is wanted by Interpol for drug smuggling, among other charges.
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Yet wildlife and drugs investigators in Kenya and America believe that Ali may not be the kingpin of an ivory smuggling gang but merely a lieutenant in a larger, well-established criminal organisation that is smuggling drugs as well as ivory and rhino horn.
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Brigade leader Ahmed al-Dabbashi, also known as Al-Ammu (the uncle) and described in a U.N. report as one of Libya's top smuggling facilitators, said the move had led to attacks by rivals smuggling from al-Wadi, an area just east of Sabratha.
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Mr. Hansen faces charges of attempting to gather or deliver national defense information to aid a foreign government, acting as an unregistered foreign agent for China, bulk cash smuggling, structuring monetary transactions and smuggling goods from the US, according to the US justice department.
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Homeland Security officials said the prototypes would be added to the existing border walls in San Diego and would allow the agency to evaluate which barriers were most effective in giving Border Patrol agents time to respond to illegal drug-smuggling and human smuggling.
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The war has created new opportunities for smuggling and protection rackets, which the jihadists undoubtedly exploit.
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The owner of one ship accused of smuggling oil to North Korea denied any such activity.
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The head-shaving, cocaine-smuggling, ass-kicking version of the boy we met five weeks ago.
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Not only do they run many of the factories and smuggling routes, they also manage farming.
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It's not difficult to grasp the logic behind offloading drug-smuggling to a machine: anonymity, baby.
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Throughout 37 Tons, you lament that the smuggling life meant forfeiting a lot of interpersonal relationships.
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"The smuggling business became quite sophisticated as a result of competition from the caravans," Selee says.
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The illegal immigrant smuggling trade is dominated by predatory "coyotes" connected to Mexico's worst drug cartels.
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Relying on cartel-run smuggling operations to cross the border, he said, isn't worth the risk.
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In return for supporting an ally, Israeli officials say, Syria is smuggling advanced weapons to Hezbollah.
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The insectarium regularly hangs onto exotic species that are involved in smuggling or health-violation cases.
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He swam across the Rio Grande and stayed in a smuggling organization's house before being caught.
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Andrew, from New Zealand, was involved in crimes ranging from shoplifting to weapons and drug smuggling.
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Thus far Lucasfilm has it shut up tighter than a smuggling compartment on a Corellian freighter.
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In a memo released that day, Sessions prioritized prosecuting smuggling, harboring, and transporting under Statute 1324.
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Their paychecks were withheld by the traffickers to pay off smuggling debts, according to the report.
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Heard was spared a conviction over the dog-smuggling saga by an Australian court Monday afternoon.
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Other music lovers recalled smuggling in tapes or records and listening to them at clandestine parties.
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Bout used a series of anonymous U.S. shell companies to launder money and facilitate his smuggling.
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Aid workers and residents said fighters on both sides profited from smuggling it across the lines.
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In 2014, police in Australia said a drone was employed for a planned drug smuggling operation.
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So we've created, and they've created, and they've let it happen -- a massive child-smuggling industry.
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"The major concern is that they become a haven for smuggling and avoiding tax," he said.
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The center helped launch more than 5,200 investigations into human trafficking and migrant smuggling last year.
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Most drug smuggling takes place at ports of entry — not the habitat he hopes to protect.
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Maximum facilitation would be an invitation to smuggling and almost certainly against World Trade Organisation rules.
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Ten years after smuggling drugs for her girlfriend, Piper Chapman (Taylor Schilling) is sentenced to prison.
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Last August, border agents arrested 30 illegal immigrants, including 23 Chinese nationals, outside a smuggling tunnel.
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He is also said to have a foothold in Sudan's human trafficking and gold smuggling underworld.
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As the three vie for control over the organization, they're still running their drug smuggling businesses.
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Legalization in the US — in California in particular— has triggered a reverse in traditional smuggling patterns.
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Rather than relying on drug smuggling, they made their mark with an unprecedented level of savagery.
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Police have stepped up surveillance and co-operation with other European countries to curb weapons-smuggling.
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Criminal groups typically use associates to buy them, smuggling guns in the opposite direction to drugs.
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That led to a prosecutor's report, reviewed by Reuters, which named some of the smuggling ringleaders.
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Iran's state media reported on Sunday the Iranian Revolutionary Guards seized the ship for smuggling fuel.
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Was I about to get detained and arrested at the border for smuggling drugs/not drugs?
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The two men were arrested and are facing federal narcotics smuggling charges, according to the CBP.
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This graphic is one attempt to map the global reach of the contemporary human-smuggling industry.
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Another problematic use of drone tech that has emerged is for smuggling contraband over prison walls.
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Years of political corruption and a rich smuggling tradition [found the] perfect product, which was cocaine.
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A spokesman for the EU's anti-smuggling mission Sophia said they had no information about it.
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Proenca was killed in 2009 in an assassination that police suspected was related to drug smuggling.
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It is believed to have been smuggling drugs into Australia via Sydney, on commercial fishing boats.
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Other charges include smuggling precious metals, illegal possession of weapons and undocumented border crossings, Xinhua said.
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This is an area of Arizona that is known for drug trafficking and human smuggling activity.
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Beyond that, the Sudanese security services have long been accused of profiting from the smuggling trade.
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Leszczyńska, who worked as a midwife, soon began smuggling false documents and food to Jews inside.
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On Friday, a Russian court handed down a 7-1/2-year sentence for drug smuggling.
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Anticipating a sealing of Greece's northern border, criminals in neighbouring Albania are sniffing out smuggling opportunities.
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Marrero was accused of smuggling guns and explosives from Colombia when he was arrested in March.
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Last year, two men pleaded guilty to smuggling heroin by drone across the U.S.-Mexico border.
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The ship is part of the EU mission to fight people smuggling, known as Operation Sophia.
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For instance, Hezbollah has been smuggling drugs and counterfeit products throughout South America since the 1980s.
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Iranian state television quoted Iran's Revolutionary Guards as saying a tanker smuggling fuel had been seized.
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Woody Harrelson told us he will play a mentor from the seedy underworld of galactic smuggling.
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Homan deplored the discovery as the latest major case of human smuggling in the United States.
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The Security Council said Kachlaf was suspected of providing cover for Milad's alleged migrant smuggling activity.
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They have since morphed into a variety of ethnic-based militia, smuggling networks and protection rackets.
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Kyaw Win also promised a crackdown on smuggling of goods that has seriously depleted tax revenues.
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Even the British army found smuggling hard to stop; post-Brexit, that might include people-trafficking.
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This is far from the only instance of turtle smuggling, and it's not necessarily the weirdest.
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They were accused of smuggling and other illegal activities in the volatile north of the country.
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When the 1997 operations ended, the drug trafficking naturally increased due to smuggling routes re-opening.
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The reason given for the police action was smuggling a Torah scroll into the women's section.
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British Royal Marines seized an Iranian vessel, which the UK said was smuggling fuel to Syria.
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None are breaking the law — under a quirk of Egyptian law, smuggling people is not illegal.
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Another vehicle believed to be involved in the smuggling scheme was also found after the crash.
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The coalition accuses Iran of smuggling weapons, including the missile fired towards Riyadh airport on Nov.
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U.S. prosecutors said he had amassed a $14 billion fortune through bribery, murder and drug smuggling.
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And they were absolutely right to make sure I was not smuggling out a wee creature.
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Its leader was Abdelbaki es Satty, a Moroccan immigrant radicalised while in jail for drug smuggling.
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Partner with Mexico and Northern Triangle countries to counter human smuggling operations and increase intelligence cooperation.
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The Campbell intercepted suspected smuggling vessels six times, according to a statement from the Coast Guard.
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Plummer, a shop assistant from Hull in east Yorkshire, was charged with drug possession and smuggling.
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He nonetheless has a checkered past which includes an arrest for fuel smuggling eight years ago.
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Many states have made nuclear-related facilities more secure and have strengthened cooperation against nuclear smuggling.
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I got into smuggling from mixing with two dodgy beach traders, who were into all sorts.
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Instead, 292 people from several countries were found to be tied to the Lampedusa smuggling ring.
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Libya still lacks resources to fight smuggling alone, including a navy or coastguard fleet, Safar said.
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Can you tell when passengers are high on something or smuggling/using drugs on the plane?
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"Information gained from a previous human smuggling investigation precipitated the arrests," read a Marine Corps statement.
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Hallatt jokingly describes Pirate Joe's as an "international grocery smuggling operation" on the stores Instagram account.
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That's why a human smuggling operation along the Rio Grande in Texas used fake voter registrations.
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North Korea is raising millions of dollars through the smuggling of commodities, the U.N. report says.
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It's hard not to feel for Prokopi, who ultimately ends up in prison for his smuggling.
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The smuggling of mortars, land mines, grenades, rockets and missiles took place between 1991 and 1995.
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Pakistan has previously said that it is taking measures to reduce people-smuggling and illegal migration.
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People who know Mr. Chen expressed shock that he may have been smuggling to North Korea.
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That pastime has been transported to New York, where finch smuggling has become a big business.
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The trade of protected animals is Colombia's third largest illegal industry after drugs and human smuggling.
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Either way, it is rare for federal or local prosecutors to charge an owner with smuggling.
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A seafood salesman accused of smuggling $7 million worth of endangered baby eels has been sentenced.
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Two defendants also face smuggling or obstruction charges, each with a maximum 20-year prison term.
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The quake sent a flood of the unemployed, including impoverished fishermen, in search of smuggling jobs.
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That leads many Chinese to smuggling, especially from India, where prices of many drugs are capped.
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Smuggler gangs are already positioned to exploit them — diesel fuel smuggling has kept them in practice.
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Banning flavored e-cigarettes will prompt more smuggling, enriching smugglers and the treasuries of bordering states.
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Neighboring Togo, a country which produces little gold from its own mines, is a smuggling hub.
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Other countries and groups are also chastised for their roles in ivory smuggling, including the Vatican.
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Then in 2007, Spain began installing cameras along its southern coastline, and the smuggling route changed.
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This could undermine bilateral efforts to deal with the challenges of cartels, human smuggling and refugees.
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Elsewhere, the Italian government has struck deals with smuggling militias to cut human trafficking to Europe.
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But according to Knight, the demand is outstripping supply, leading to an increase in illegal smuggling.
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The population consisted mostly of Bedouin tribes, who subsisted on pearl diving, pirating, and occasional smuggling.
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Even as Europeans reeled in shock from the discovery, the smuggling of refugees went on uninterrupted.
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The program called for a crackdown on the flow of Central American migrants and smuggling routes.
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Specialized in international drug and weapons smuggling, it is the No. 1 cocaine supplier into Europe.
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Libya is twenty miles to the east, and the town is almost entirely dependent on smuggling.
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That means interdicting their extensive weapons smuggling activities worldwide, which earn them badly needed hard currency.
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Nigeria closed parts of its borders in August to fight smuggling of rice and other goods.
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Nigeria has partially closed its border with its small neighbour to curb the smuggling of rice.
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Today, the biggest danger is from organized and well-armed criminal groups involved in timber smuggling.
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Of course, the ultimate solution is to take the profit out of poaching and resource smuggling.
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These include tax evasion and avoidance (collectively referred to as smuggling) and other activities, often illegal.
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Under the new directives, such parents could face deportation or prosecution for smuggling or human trafficking.
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The Wildlife Conservation Office (WCO) began investigating the temple -- and whether it was smuggling tiger parts.
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Several former enclaves of Yugoslavia saw an explosion of arms smuggling, human trafficking and money laundering.
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That price reflects both the high demand and the extreme risk of smuggling the material across.
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This is why getting a handle on the degree to which smuggling occurs is so important.
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Rather, they will become even more dependent on criminal smuggling networks, and even more at risk.
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They and seven others are also charged with the smuggling of hundreds of people across Europe.
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Risks remain regarding the theft, smuggling or proliferation of nuclear materials, technology and potentially even weapons.
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On the plane from Mexico, Cleo considers smuggling the letter by stuffing it in her underwear.
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But a wall — the least effective thing it's going to be for is stopping drug smuggling.
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Mexico is home to one of the biggest human smuggling markets in the world, he said.
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They will also try to prevent smuggling after harvesting starts this summer, Barodo said without elaborating.
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This is hardly the first intersection between drug smuggling and art, and won't be the last.
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"They were smuggling people as much for defiance as for sport," historian Natalie S. Robertson told NBC.
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In addition, ISIS raises revenue from a wide variety of other funding streams such as antiquities smuggling.
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Interior minister Davor Boznovic said more than 144 people have been detained for people smuggling this year.
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The drugs were seized and a 28-year-old male U.S. citizen was arrested for smuggling narcotics.
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In January, a woman was caught smuggling a teenage African migrant hidden in her suitcase into Ceuta.
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I knew I couldn't go back to smuggling and I had to find something new to do.
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They have since morphed into a wide variety of ethnic-based militia, smuggling networks and protection rackets.
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Rome has said these include helping secure Libya's southern desert frontier against people-smuggling and other trafficking.
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Most executions in Iran are carried out for drug smuggling, which remains a problem for the country.
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The duty hike could lift gold smuggling in 2019 above last year's around 95 tonnes, Somasundaram said.
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"CBP seized the currency under failure to declare and bulk cash smuggling laws," stated the press release.
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" For example, "the Enlightenment … required an international republic of letters that could bypass censorship by smuggling books.
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Some are also forming small consortiums to develop their own smuggling routes through parts of the Balkans.
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This is the new subterfuge of the smuggling networks, whose plasticity has far outshone brittle intercontinental deals.
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Ghadhban said Iraq would install a monitoring system on fuel trucks to check movements and prevent smuggling.
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Efrain Delgado-Rosales was sentenced last week to five years in prison for smuggling four non-U.
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Yet Hamas's military wing depends on smuggling tunnels controlled by the same jihadists to replenish its arsenal.
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"The message from smuggling organizations to parents in Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador is clear," McAleenan said.
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Among them are the FDN, Brazil's third-biggest gang, which controls drug-smuggling routes in the Amazon.
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He faces 2000 felony counts in Utah, including human smuggling, sale of a child and communications fraud.
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An award-winning journalist, his recent articles have focused on a narcotics smuggling, security, politics and conservation.
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The two were arrested in November for their reports on accusations of government arms smuggling to Syria.
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The border with Serbia has been open to smuggling, which flourished after Pristina imposed its import taxes.
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Gold smuggling surged in India after the government raised the import duty to 10% in August 2013.
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But stopping petrol-smuggling is not a high priority for the European navies that patrol the Mediterranean.
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According to the BBC, migrants pay "people-smuggling gangs" the equivalent of $6,000 to get to Italy.
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Previous reports indicated the contestants were overwhelmed by insects and had resorted to smuggling in junk food.
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In it, some say it could have been a smuggling aircraft or even a secret military airframe.
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All 34 were detained for violations associated with the failed human smuggling operation and processed for removal.
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Although it is longer than the Balkan route, the high margins on drug-smuggling more than compensate.
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Jamie steps out to deal with smuggling business, leaving Claire with Willoughby (real name I Tien Cho).
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A "research and investigations" unit was set up to take on difficult cases, among them tobacco smuggling.
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Michael Gove, the environment secretary, has relished explaining how Brexit could enable a crackdown on puppy smuggling.
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Organised criminals traditionally distinguished themselves by working in groups for profit, especially by smuggling contraband or people.
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The discovery of the mass graves spurred a massive crackdown by authorities, effectively halting the smuggling boats.
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Smuggling happens every year but has grown more profitable, and thus more common, this season, farmers said.
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According to the nonprofit Antiquities Coalition, the country has lost an estimated $3 billion to illegal smuggling.
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Ibrahim, a petrol-station manager, says that each of those involved in smuggling migrants "supported five families".
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It now relies on aeroplanes and the Libyan coastguard to do the job of disrupting smuggling networks.
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Kenyan soldiers have also been accused of smuggling sugar, as well as other illegal activities inside Somalia.
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The perp was arrested and handed over to Homeland Security -- and now faces federal drug smuggling charges.
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Another parliamentary committee that investigated tanzanite mining said there was massive smuggling of the purple-blue gemstone.
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This proximity made the route popular among asylum seekers, and a vast smuggling economy emerged in response.
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A new smuggling network packs Guatemalans into buses, which take them to the American border in days.
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The arrests were precipitated by information gathered from a previous human smuggling investigation, the press release said.
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Hohenkirk was arrested on federal narcotic smuggling charges, and will be prosecuted in a New York court.
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Herrou was arrested just days later and on Wednesday went on trial in Nice for smuggling migrants.
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New Delhi (CNN)Police in Mumbai have arrested six people in connection with a baby smuggling ring.
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Many have resorted to other criminal rackets, including extortion, human smuggling, kidnapping, cargo theft and hydrocarbon theft.
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On Friday, a Russian court sentenced her to 7-1/2 years in jail for drug smuggling.
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At its origin is the importation or smuggling of cheap, often counterfeit goods from the Far East.
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Mrs Merkel believes that Turkey can help by disrupting people-smuggling networks and stepping up coastal patrols.
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Councilman Margo Rodriguez was indicted January 27 on unrelated federal charges of smuggling undocumented immigrants, KSAT reported.
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The police claimed they had to take her to jail because she was suspected of smuggling drugs.
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Korkmaz testified on Monday that he began investigating Zarrab in 2012 for smuggling gold and money laundering.
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A Michigan Department of Corrections spokesman said drones have introduced a whole new method of smuggling goods.
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Cross-border smuggling and infiltration, perhaps of Houthi fighters, says a Saudi officer, is higher than ever.
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It began work on the Paraguayan and Bolivian sections this year, which are hot-spots for smuggling.
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The region covers major smuggling routes into Iran from Helmand, source of much of Afghanistan's opium crop.
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Genetically diverse tumours are like a gang of hoodlums involved in different crimes -- from robbery to smuggling.
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Here at MUNCHIES, we've reported on many food-related drug smuggling cases and food robberies gone bad.
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They are among thousands of Africans and Asian migrants making the arduous journey, led by smuggling cartels.
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He said he had been active in preventing illegal fishing and blocked fuel and scrap metal smuggling.
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Gambling, prostitution, drugs, smuggling, he was a face on the make with lots of dirty cash machines.
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"Today's announcement provides a unique window into contraband smuggling at Rikers," Peters said at a press conference.
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India has stringent narcotics laws, with a minimum sentence of 10 years imprisonment for heroin smuggling offenses.
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The difference between the two must be explained, and we believe it is a function of smuggling.
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The reach of his smuggling operation reportedly extends far beyond Europe, into Canada and the United States.
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Its fighters moved east into al-Mahra, prompting internecine fighting for control of smuggling routes into Oman.
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This hurts Nigeria's economy (in 2010 the World Bank estimated annual revenue losses from smuggling of $200m).
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The involvement of the NCA suggests Britain has moved the investigation of migrant smuggling up its agenda.
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On June 18, 2019, the US Coast Guard intercepted a drug-smuggling vessel in the Pacific Ocean.
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By the late nineteenth century, enterprising picciotti were also engaging in smuggling, cattle rustling, and highway robbery.
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The charges included extortion, money laundering, loan-sharking, drug smuggling, Mafia association, and two counts of murder.
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Reyna, a white single mother in gentrified Harlem, refuses to abet her boyfriend's interstate cigarette-smuggling operation.
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His militia group is said to control a central hub of smuggling operations at the Zawiya refinery.
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Meaher was charged with smuggling and faced a possible death sentence, but was never prosecuted, AP reported.
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Marines from Camp Pendleton arrested in July in relation to a human-smuggling probe have been charged.
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"Smuggling has become big business: It's being done on an almost industrial scale," Mr. Spindler told reporters.
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The alliance accuses Iran of smuggling weapons, including missiles which have targeted Saudi cities, to the Houthis.
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Mai faces 10 years in prison for smuggling, and Shih faces a maximum 219-year prison sentence.
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They're lying to banks about their intentions with bank accounts and they're smuggling cash out in suitcases.
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Prosecutors discovered the smuggling ring while investigating him for alleged past membership of Syria&aposs Nusra Front.
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There, she was handed over to a North Korean guard who was part of a smuggling operation.
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Even Sessions, whose reference to "smuggling children" lumped in parents with professional smugglers, didn't go that far.
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Smuggling networks have flourished amid the political turmoil and armed conflict that developed following Libya's 2011 uprising.
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Our task force never developed any evidence that the CIA was involved with Seal in drug smuggling.
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We follow Homeland Security personnel, we follow Border Patrol personnel attempting to fight human smuggling, human trafficking.
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The two groups have fought for years for control of the lucrative smuggling route through Ciudad Juárez.
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They interrogated her every day, but she continued to deny any involvement in the food-smuggling operation.
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But the foreign smuggling rings that seek to illegally export American technology show no signs of abating.
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The rise is largely being fueled by human smuggling operations on the lawless coasts of nearby Libya.
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Investigators described a smuggling operation that moved information and contraband among city jails and an upstate prison.
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In a case like this — a drug smuggling case involving a foreigner — it is much less common.
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Interviews with immigration officials and court documents show numerous examples of children being exploited by smuggling organizations.
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By linking kingpins to boats, prosecutors can add maritime smuggling to the list of charges against them.
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Mr. Cao went into smuggling with his father, using bicycles to transport rationed tobacco for illegal resale.
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The crackdown on human smuggling has also been accompanied by economic decline and security concerns for Niger.
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Dozens of Thais, including an army general, were eventually jailed for involvement in the people-smuggling network.
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The mandate of Operation Sophia, the European Union's anti-smuggling mission, was recently extended for another year.
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Mr. Baluch was arrested in Nimroz, a smuggling hub on the border with Iran, in July 2014.
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Information from that human smuggling investigation led to the charges against the Marines on Thursday, he said.
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Ms. Garcia said she had seen her share of drug smuggling and people crossing the border illegally.
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DHS must exercise a waiver to transfer counter-drug funds to construct fencing to block drug smuggling.
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The border area has long been plagued by unrest from both drug smuggling gangs and separatist militants.
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Officials say the elimination of fuel subsidies was necessary to lift a struggling economy and stop smuggling.
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Israeli media say Russian prosecutors accuse her of drug smuggling and want her jailed for several years.
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SMUGGLING Before the new regulations, the central bank bought gold at a discount to the international price.
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They suspected that she might be smuggling drugs, and a drug-sniffing dog indicated that she was.
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MS-13 members turned out to be inept at drug smuggling and resistant to the whole idea.
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TODAY'S BIG READS CNN's Nima Elbagir goes undercover on the dangerous Mediterranean migrant smuggling route through Africa.
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For impoverished families like Ismail's, Europe is just a dream, as the smuggling fees are too high.
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Other than preventing terrorists from smuggling components onto planes, the device ban may create additional surveillance opportunities.
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His predecessor, Almazbek Atambayev, is trying to explain how the smuggling ring became established on his watch.
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The smuggling group, whose leaders are mainly from northern Iraq, earned an average 2 million euros annually.
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It didn't provide many clues to our new home, but it dissuaded me from ever smuggling hashish.
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On the contrary, it will send migrants even more deeply into the clutches of criminal smuggling networks.
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He took assignments aimed at curbing human smuggling and in its war crimes unit, her memorandum said.
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He is thought to have granted the military control of drug-smuggling routes among other income sources.
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Other correctional facilities have also seen similar incidents, as inmates abandon traditional forms of smuggling for drones.
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There are whispers that IS has started to tax hashish operations and smuggling in and around Lebanon.
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Sabaaneh worked throughout his jail time, smuggling finished drawings out through visitors rather than risk their discovery.
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He described how El Mayo hatched a plan for them to start smuggling large shipments of cocaine.
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Equally, a rich heritage of smuggling in the region forms a robust foundation for today's frontline commerce.
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But such smuggling is costly: fees and bribes must be paid out at checkpoints to ensure delivery.
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"The smuggling ring moving migrants from the Horn of Africa to Northern Europe via Libya does not appear to have the thread of any single organization running through it," said Paolo Campana of Cambridge University's Institute of Criminology, author of a study on the smuggling published on Monday.
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He was sentenced to 10 years in prison in 2014 for smuggling what authorities said were illegal chemicals.
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The novel follows Jazz, a young woman who runs a smuggling operation out of the titular lunar city.
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So what gets lost in this conversation as well is we&aposre dealing with very sophisticated, organized smuggling.
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The birds being smuggling were all species protected under the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES).
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So, we&aposve created, and they&aposve created and they let it happened, a massive child smuggling industry.
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Authorities have since seized over 900,000 litres of of hooch and made 40,000 arrests related to alcohol smuggling.
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Farah, which also borders the opium-rich Taliban heartland of Helmand province, has key smuggling routes into Iran.
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But of course, there's nothing tying McConnell or Chao to any knowledge of or involvement in cocaine smuggling.
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As part of today's news, the government also published details on a number of other drone smuggling incidents.
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The World Gold Council estimates smuggling networks imported up to 120 tonnes of gold into India in 2016.
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Part of the excitement came from the fact you could make a large amount of money from smuggling.
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A 31-year-old Bulgarian was the head of the human smuggling ring and its two Bulgarian drivers.
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The increase in smuggling by air may as well stem from the loopholes of the EU-Turkey deal.
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Romanov was an experienced smuggler — his main business was smuggling tobacco, and he was very good at it.
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Wildlife authorities in Kenya, a major hub of ivory smuggling, welcomed the news of China's falling ivory prices.
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These suggest that high taxes on cigarettes cause a surge in smuggling and, perversely, reduce overall tax revenues.
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Human smuggling is "not the business model of the cartels," Correa-Cabrera said, but extortion most certainly is.
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Earlier this month, a Chinese court sentenced a Canadian man to death for drug smuggling after a retrial.
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The paper said the images proved that Turkey was smuggling arms to rebels, a claim the government rejected.
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In May, Kosovo police arrested 19 people including police and customs officers in connection with alleged smuggling deals.
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Back in 2015, authorities in China busted a pangolin smuggling ring, confiscating 2,674 carcasses of the endangered species.
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" "By ending catch-and-release on the border, we will stop the cycle of human smuggling and violence.
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Europol, Europe's police agency, says people-smuggling may have generated between $3 billion and $6 billion last year.
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The western port of Zuwara, once a hub for the migrant trade, has lately switched to smuggling fuel.
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Mazel also said that drones were being used in smuggling schemes in Australia to monitor port authority workers.
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But drones have become a popular method for smuggling contraband, like drugs, weapons and mobile phones, into prisons.
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The information led agents with ICE Homeland Security Investigations to "dismantle a human smuggling drop house," she said.
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"If Colombia is known for drugs, African countries for conflict, well, China is known for smuggling," Zhou says.
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But the on-again, off-again humanitarian deliveries and limited smuggling activity do little to meet residents' needs.
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They made their money through extortion, smuggling, kidnapping and drug-trafficking, and infiltrated Guatemala's judicial and political systems.
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In May Kosovo police arrested 19 people including police and customs officers in connection with suspected smuggling deals.
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It has been a key spot in a route for the ISIS smuggling of weapons and foreign fighters.
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President Koroma thanked the chief for his actions, and for not smuggling the diamond out of the country.
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The smuggling route patrolled by the French is one of the main arteries for jihadists, arms and drugs.
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Then in November, Costa Rica broke up a smuggling network that had been ferrying migrants through the country.
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" In smuggling cases, he said, "the purpose is to transport individuals and smuggle them in exchange for profit.
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But there's no indication in public reporting that the Mexican troops were part of any drug smuggling conspiracy.
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But his plans for making Honduras a hub of activities besides cocaine-smuggling have not progressed very far.
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Their region is rife with ethnic and tribal fighting, and with criminal gangs that run lucrative smuggling rings.
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"Agree to separate your city's destiny from human smuggling, and we'll create a different future," he told them.
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Activists said the upgrade could slow progress to combat people smuggling and slavery in the Southeast Asian nation.
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This is why I have been secretly smuggling ancient cuneiform tablets under the guise of Hobby Lobby products.
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"Information gained from a previous human smuggling investigation precipitated the arrests," a statement from the Marine Corps said.
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Most people were at least vaguely familiar with his prison escapes and his smuggling tunnels beneath the border.
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A spike around 2003 coincided with the surge of a booming business: smuggling rings moving migrants en masse.
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Sinan Ulgen, a visiting scholar at Carnegie Europe, says Turkey can do more, particularly in prosecuting smuggling networks.
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Remember the American who was smuggling 13 pounds of meth at a time over the border this summer?
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In October the United States proposed eight ships for U.N. designation for smuggling banned cargo from North Korea.
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Maybe the Onion Knight picked it up on one of his smuggling trips to some mysterious Geordie island?
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Last month's U.N. report said Islamic State efforts to infiltrate smuggling networks in Libya's southwest had largely failed.
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Well, it seems to hit all of the basic prison smuggling requirements: cheap, long-lasting, and (relatively) accessible.
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Thailand and Malaysia on Friday agreed to consider building a border wall to combat transnational crime and smuggling.
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Iran seized a Panamanian tanker and its 12 crew on Sunday over allegations that it was "smuggling" fuel.
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Gold smuggling surged in India after the government raised the import duty to 10 percent in August 2013.
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Hiking taxes by $85033 and $0.65 per pack, respectively, will reverse the flow of casual smuggling across borders.
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After all, the American Revolution was won by cleverness, with a dependence on spycraft, smuggling, and guerrilla warfare.
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The tunnels have been used for a variety of contraband, but they are most suited to marijuana smuggling.
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The authorities point out that most of the executions were for drug-related crimes, including armed drug-smuggling.
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"We don't have a whole lot of cases exactly like this every day," O'Meara said of turtle smuggling.
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I played the officer who cracked down on marijuana because he was smuggling cocaine back into the USA.
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Iran rejects Western criticism of its rights record, including a high number of executions linked to drugs smuggling.
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Amnesty International has testimony from several women of widespread rape and sexual assault occurring on the smuggling route.
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The NGOs have repeatedly denied any ties to smuggling and no evidence of wrongdoing has ever been presented.
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" Still, she joked — we think — that her boyfriend was "smuggling" her pot into the ceremony "in his rectum.
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Key criminal industries include human trafficking, as well as smuggling of wildlife and timber, counterfeit goods and medicines.
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And struggles between rival criminal groups for control of lucrative migrant-smuggling routes have led to some violence.
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"Silk" (2007) follows the story of a man who takes on a lover while smuggling silkworms from Japan.
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That exacerbates Hamas budgetary shortfalls caused by Egypt's closure of smuggling tunnels from its Sinai peninsula to Gaza.
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The new procedures include personal searches that have prevented crew members from smuggling cigarettes or currency, he said.
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People now caught smuggling boats that attempt to reach Australia will be "intercepted and sent back," he said.
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"Smuggling illegal aliens into this country disregards both our laws and their safety," Attorney General Jeff Sessions said.
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The conditions foster corruption, cross-border crime, a shadow economy, illicit smuggling and serious threats to regional security.
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Seeing me sweat, you'd think I was smuggling ten machine guns, 20kg of coke, and a dismembered corpse.
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He claimed that a substantial share of human and drug smuggling does not happen at ports of entry.
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The Libyan navy said it fired "warning shots" because it thought the ship was involved in people smuggling.
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The arrests were in relation to alleged involvement in crimes ranging from human smuggling to drug-related offenses.
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Doguin said it was not the first time Uber cars had been detected as part of smuggling operations.
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By ending catch-and-release on the border, we will end the cycle of human smuggling and violence.
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Her office has prosecuted cases involving violence by inmates, brutality by officers, corruption and the smuggling of contraband.
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He said his deputies are often involved in chases pursuing people suspected of smuggling undocumented immigrants and drugs.
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Alliance ships are helping to deter the smuggling of migrants across the Aegean Sea from Turkey to Greece.
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One of them, Robert Schellenberg, was sentenced to death last week for being an accessory to drug smuggling.
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Haley has said the US pressure campaign is being undercut by smuggling and by countries such as Russia.
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Net oil importer Indonesia's fuel subsidies have been blamed for creating a false economy, widespread smuggling and corruption.
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One of the methods it employed was to crack down on merchants smuggling goods into the American colonies.
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These vehicles were smuggled, and Duterte oversaw the destruction as part of his anti-smuggling and corruption campaign.
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A crackdown on people smuggling networks in Thailand in 2015 saw many Rohingya abandoned at sea by traffickers.
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Reports have since surfaced of atrocities committed by the army and police in their crackdown on the smuggling.
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This poverty has also given way to a flurry of illegal activity, including drug trafficking and people smuggling.
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On November 20, he was sentenced to 15 years in prison for being an accessory to drug smuggling.
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The government claims its hardline policies are to discourage the people-smuggling trade and prevent deaths at sea.
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Campana said the people smuggling was not an organized operation with "independent and autonomous" smugglers at each stage.
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"So far, it's worked as well or better as drugs, counterfeiting, smuggling – all their usual tricks," Lewis said.
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The operation began in summer 2000 as an investigation of suspected drug smuggling by commercial fishermen in Sydney.
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It's a very traditional place, and a region with a checkered history of tribal infighting and drug smuggling.
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They are among thousands of African and Asian migrants also making the arduous journey, led by smuggling cartels.
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Border Patrol and Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents dismantled one such remotely-guided smuggling cell in late 2011.
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Lindsey had already decided Valerie was a "shitty dog owner," but the meth smuggling was a deal breaker.
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That facility has faced instances of drug smuggling, medical staff shortages, and safety problems, according to the AJC.
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He seems to think, contrary to informed opinion, that the answer to heroin smuggling is a border wall.
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Dozens of guards have been charged in recent years with various crimes, including smuggling contraband and assaulting inmates.
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The newspaper reported that the Marines' arrests were a result of an investigation into a human smuggling ring.
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Argo was based on the smuggling of six US citizens out of Iran during the 1979 hostage crisis.
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Last week, South Korea seized a second vessels suspected of violating sanctions by smuggling oil to North Korea.
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He turns his attention to human trafficking and smuggling in the second season, which will debut Friday night.
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The 2014 unaccompanied children crisis would have been much worse without Mexican assistance along the major smuggling routes.
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He directed immigration officials to lodge smuggling charges against the parents, saying they were putting children in danger.
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As a result, abalone smuggling has become an important part of the underground economy in many fishing communities.
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The criminal network is suspected of smuggling and distributing weapons and around 1.65 tonnes of cocaine and heroin.
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None of them had been arrested for anything related to cow smuggling or slaughter, according to the records.
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When he went back to Mirjaveh last winter, he was immediately offered a job smuggling opium and heroin.
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The smuggling has also inflamed tensions with China and Russia, since both countries are linked to this trade.
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Ansar Burney, a Pakistani civil rights activist who works to end people smuggling, said the message was persuasive.
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He said law enforcement agencies "try their best" to counter "a whole mafia of smuggling" in the region.
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National security became about, as Deputy Attorney General Jamie Gorelick put it, "terrorism, narcotics trafficking, and alien smuggling".
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Under the Trump administration's plan, the Treasury Department would inherit the authority to investigate tobacco and alcohol smuggling.
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Recently 18 Marines and one sailor were arrested at Camp Pendleton, California, over allegations on human smuggling. Gen.
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