In addition, some are unable to disclose or prove that they are trafficking victims out of fear of retaliation from a trafficker or buyer, economic dependency on the trafficker or language barriers.
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The trafficker was convicted and sentenced to life in jail.
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The trafficker introduced himself as "Tom," clearly a fake name.
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"I am a trafficker, but there are many," he said.
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"Maybe a pimp or trafficker is watching them," he said.
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Jesús is a drug trafficker allied with the Sinaloa cartel.
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This could result in a longer sentence for a convicted trafficker.
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What will he do when he's no longer a drug trafficker?
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The trafficker was "unimpressed" and thought oil was a better prospect.
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Arguably more hateable than drug trafficker and domestic abuser Leo Johnson.
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Drug trafficker Jose Rodolfo Escajeda was later arrested for their murders.
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Meet the World's Richest People Trafficker (He's a Surprisingly Nice Guy)!
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With the bulk of the money, she hired a human trafficker.
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Ms. Dejohnette's father was a trafficker and her mother was trafficked.
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The alternative is the possibility being with the child&aposs sex trafficker.
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As a trafficker in both New Haven and Baltimore, Smokes was loaded.
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Her trafficker was convicted and sentenced to nearly 14 years in prison.
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Her trafficker wasn't the only one who financially benefited from her victimization.
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In a statement at the time Lopez denied being a drug trafficker.
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K met the trafficker, had his documents copied, and booked his flights.
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Many, for example, believe they're in a romantic relationship with their trafficker.
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And then if so, let's start breaking that bond with that trafficker.
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The trafficker planned to sell to her to a brothel in Mumbai.
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The police would later describe this friend as a Colombian cocaine trafficker.
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According to "Tom," the trafficker Mr. Stiles discovered, "Joe" had recently retired.
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"He came off as a normal dude, not a trafficker," Buemi recalls.
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Tuesday's proceedings began with testimony from government witness Edgar Galvan, a low-level drug trafficker who the defense said fabricated payments from another trafficker to Guzman with the hope of reducing his own 24-1/3-year prison term.
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"Simply put, the indictments send a message that there is no difference between a drug trafficker, and a drug trafficker who leads anti-narcotics trafficking efforts," the DEA's James Hunt said in a statement announcing the unsealing on Monday.
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When I asked her if her boss was a human trafficker, she laughed.
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Velasco suspects it was a drug trafficker intent on kidnapping her for ransom.
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The PCC killed the last big rival drug trafficker in Paraguay in 2016.
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Others say he started as a pistolero, a triggerman, for an established trafficker.
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He partners with Alberto Sicilia Falcon, a Cuban cocaine trafficker based in Mexico.
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"We will investigate the trafficker, but the victims can go free," he said.
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Upstairs, police finally nab the trafficker, a man with a slight pot belly.
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During that time, they have the option of pressing charges against their trafficker.
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Legendary film producer (and cocaine trafficker) Robert Evans chose it for his honeymoon.
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Mr. Lobo recently denied receiving any money from the trafficker for the campaign.
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He acknowledged buying plastic explosives from the widow of a Honduran drug trafficker.
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An algorithm could easily confuse the language of a victim and a sex trafficker.
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He goes, 'You know, we have to make sure you're not a human trafficker.
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"I met my trafficker the same way a lot of us do," says Snow.
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It is likely no accident that Macy's sex trafficker preyed upon a foster child.
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Michael had sent a friend request to one trafficker who I'll call Mr. Nguyen.
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Other clients turned to an oft-investigated but still active peptide trafficker in Louisiana.
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Then came unwanted attention for its ties to accused child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.
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And then there was the owner of the chemicals: Mr. Makled, the drug trafficker.
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Opinion Alex Jones, the conspiracy trafficker who runs the website Infowars, believes that Sept.
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As with our client, Carrie*, a trafficking survivor who was evicted by her trafficker.
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The trafficker listed the Wisconsin woman on YesBackpage and made her provide sexual services.
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The suspected weapons trafficker who met with the wife of Amedy Coulibaly, shortly before Coulibaly shot up a kosher supermarket in Paris following the attacks on the offices of Charlie Hebdo—but the alleged trafficker was later cleared of any direct involvement.
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At a late-October rally in Nevada, he told voters that a Democratic victory "would be a bright, flashing invitation to every human trafficker, drug trafficker," and that Democrats wanted to give undocumented immigrants health care, welfare, and the right to vote.
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And despite Mr. Guzmán's infamy, there are questions about whether he was truly the biggest drug trafficker in Mexico or just one of various powerful kingpins, including his fellow Sinaloan trafficker Ismael Zambada García, called El Mayo, who is still at large.
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Mr El Aissami is not the first Venezuelan official to be branded a drug trafficker.
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There's also a high overlap in the geographic origin of the tusks and the trafficker.
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In other words, Asia has provided the opportunity for an enterprising drug trafficker and syndicate.
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The van's driver, thought to be a trafficker, fled the scene, two police officials added.
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"They go get their license for the purpose of becoming a firearms trafficker," he said.
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The luxuries of being married to a trafficker are that you never want for anything.
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" Highlights from Sessions' speech: Sanctuary cities are "a trafficker, smuggler, or a predator's best friend.
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"Gustavo" is a convicted human trafficker, now serving time in a Mexican maximum security prison.
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The alleged sex trafficker had apparently committed suicide when he was found in his cell.
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The agent had heard everything, too, but Enotiades summarized what the trafficker had agreed to.
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Mexico tabulates the amounts of a drug anyone can possess before being considered a trafficker.
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Mr. Zambada had a legitimate job as an accountant before he began as a trafficker.
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The cartel has been dubbed by the Treasury Department as a specially designated narcotics trafficker.
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Dudus Coke, aka the President, a Jamaican drug trafficker who is now incarcerated, is one.
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And it was a great juxtaposition against a new class of trafficker that did not.
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Dershowitz has been criticized for his relations with, and representation of, sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.
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A childhood friend, Keong, a drug dealer turned human trafficker, returns to Ah Hock's life.
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A childhood friend, Keong, a drug dealer turned human trafficker, returns to Ah Hock's life.
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Wexner has ties to accused sex trafficker Jeffery Epstein, who died in jail last August.
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If a law enforcement agency decides to prosecute the trafficker, very often, the survivor must testify or serve as a witness in the prosecution, which places the survivor at great risk of harm from retaliation by the trafficker if the survivor is not protected.
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"I stopped being a drug trafficker in 1984 and will never be one again," he said.
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" Drug Trafficker #1: "Of course it is...we're a drug cartel, not a bunch of animals!
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One day, he left all of that behind to become an LSD trafficker in another country.
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When Best resisted, she says the trafficker threatened her and stopped her from using the phone.
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" Kate del Castillo captured El Chapo's attention as a drug trafficker in "La Reina del Sur.
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"In the end, he said he had learned a lot from a sex trafficker," he said.
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Teto claimed to have no idea his longtime friend and business partner was a drug trafficker.
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His lawyers have claimed he was framed by another powerful drug trafficker, Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada.
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She met her trafficker when she was out one night with a friend at a bar.
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Law enforcement debunks these rumors while simultaneously telling people that anyone, anywhere can be a trafficker.
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The department said that one of his underworld partners was that drug trafficker, Walid Makled García.
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Historically, Gallardo eventually became the most powerful drug trafficker in Mexico, before being arrested in 1989.
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At the time, Lehder's trial was the biggest trial of foreign drug trafficker in US history.
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How else can we explain the fact that untouchable drug trafficker Klement Balili is still free?
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One major witness, the Colombian trafficker Alex Cifuentes, may end up testifying in a new cartel trial against Mykhaylo Koretskyy, a Ukranian-born alleged drug trafficker who was arrested in 2018 and then was indicted in federal court in New York on drug smuggling conspiracy charges.
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But in addition to being a morally despicable trafficker of humans, he was also, apparently, a moron.
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The informant introduced the three men to an undercover agent who was posing as a weapons trafficker.
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He also claimed that Musk falsely called him a child rapist and sex trafficker in an Aug.
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But many of these minors have no "pimp" or "trafficker," according to research from the Urban Institute.
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"The victim was my main witness," said Tandon, who was seeking the death penalty for the trafficker.
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Felix has one last another obstacle to vanquish before he can become a veritable cocaine trafficker: Falcon.
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What worries me is the image of him that says, 'It's cool to be a narco trafficker.
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A drug trafficker chatted nervously with the person who was about to cross the border with meth.
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Macy's trafficker promised her that he would protect her and that she didn't have to be homeless.
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The police threatened to put her in adult jail if she did not testify against her trafficker.
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Her trafficker was in Virginia on pre-trial release for a malicious wounding case against another woman.
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He introduces us to a heroin trafficker, and we visit the scene of a suspected cartel execution.
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She had decided that the baby would be handed to a human trafficker when it is born.
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The employee then told the trafficker that the victim had tried to get his help to escape.
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One trafficker indicted by the U.S. Department of Justice, Yan Xiaobing, has a company based in Wuhan.
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He testified that the trafficker had personally killed the cardinal accidentally while trying to murder Mr. Guzmán.
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Another convicted trafficker, Víctor Hugo Díaz Morales, said that he paid $100,000 into the campaigns that year.
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I was personally involved in taking down the planet's most notorious drug trafficker, Pablo Escobar, in 1993.
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"If I were a drug trafficker, I would admit it," he told Reuters in his office, gesturing indignantly.
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And, of course, fake news about Barack Obama (he's secretly Kenyan!) and Bill Clinton (he's a cocaine trafficker
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Zoya sent the money to a trafficker in Yangon, Myanmar's largest city, but got only silence in return.
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The video ends with a presumed trafficker emerging from the narco-sub, putting his hands up in surrender.
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The Iranian was detained on suspicion of being a human trafficker, the state-run news agency Anadolu said.
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The trafficker then sold the debt to another "agent" who brought them in batches by train to Chennai.
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In any case, Penn's personal views do not justify consorting with a convicted drug trafficker and prison escapee.
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The mother recalled a drug trafficker "coming after her and her family" and trying to snatch their land.
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Another against a Syrian arms trafficker based in Spain named Monzer al Kassar, who was detained in 2007.
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One clear illustration is the recent extradition, from Paraguay to Miami, of suspected Hezbollah drug trafficker Ali Chamas.
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Federal prosecutors alleged the accused sex trafficker used employees and associates to lure the girls to his residences.
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Cover: View of Metropolitan Correctional Center where accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein committed suicide on August 10, 2019.
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Aid their transition to a new life When victims can escape a trafficker, they don't have many options.
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Immigration agents arrested him when they went to his house to detain his father, a convicted drug trafficker.
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The memo does not name the trafficker but describes him as a cooperating witness, labeling him CW-3.
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Court filings in Ramos' case include testimony from an unnamed convicted drug trafficker from the Sinaloa drug cartel.
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Prosecutors estimated that in his 30 years as a trafficker, Mr. Guzmán accumulated nearly $14 billion in earnings.
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Remember, the best way of being a drug trafficker is to work for the ministry of counter narcotics.
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In death, as he was in life, convicted Venezuelan drug trafficker Teófilo Rodríguez Cazorla was not a discreet man.
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The trail leads Wilson to Terry Valentine (Peter Fonda), a music industry bigwig who moonlights as a drug trafficker.
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As police barge through the doors, calling out the trafficker by name, they have no idea what they'll find.
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Everything is extraordinary in the long-awaited case against a defendant once considered the world's most powerful drug trafficker.
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Authorities installed a confidential source who posed as a drug trafficker attempting to get postal workers to deliver cocaine.
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The financier and accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein died Saturday of an apparent suicide in his Manhattan jail cell.
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She said her cousin, a drug trafficker, had threatened to dismember her after she caught him raping his stepdaughter.
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Bezos and MBS did not answer questions about whether they met the accused sex trafficker around the same time.
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I also met girls who had traveled thousands of miles to find a trafficker who would send them there.
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In another, he joked about one of their infant daughters in a way that only a drug trafficker could.
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From a quiet room overlooking clogged arteries of traffic, he began sending the wildlife trafficker Tom messages on WhatsApp.
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Mr. Kwon ended up with a human trafficker who promised to get him to South Korea, for about $2,500.
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According to the memo, the trafficker sent $2 million to Mr. Lobo to help fund his 2009 presidential election.
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He has also been intimately involved in the inquiry into the death of the accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.
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Her trafficker got her addicted to heroin and plied her with crack cocaine so she could work long hours.
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Her trafficker was arrested, as was his sister, who was Sandra's "madam" in Russia, pimping her out to clients.
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After her trafficker paid a ransom to her captors Becky was freed, but her ordeal was far from over.
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The case of Mr. Makled, the drug trafficker who named Mr. El Aissami in 2010, is also being revived.
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Nancy Devlin (Karla Crome), a drug-division cop with a covert link to a father-figure trafficker (Philip Glenister).
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"You don't need life rights for the most famous drug trafficker on the face of the earth," he said.
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The American government blacklisted the vice-president of Venezuela, Tareck El Aissami, calling him a "drug trafficker" and a "kingpin".
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Along with many other high-level Venezuelan officials, he has been sanctioned by the US as an international drug trafficker.
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Remember, as the highest ranking drug trafficker ever arrested, he has a treasure trove of valuable intel for law enforcement.
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"Instead of prosecuting a predator and serial sex trafficker of children, Acosta chose to let him off easy," Schumer said.
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The DEA mentioned Salazar, who is known as Chepe Diablo, as a suspected drug trafficker and money launderer in 2001.
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Camila* is 250 years old and lives in a municipality outside Mexico City with her husband, Emilio*, a drug trafficker.
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And the drug trafficker is widely seen as someone who, out of pure greed, is peddling drugs that kill people.
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The feds reportedly want to interrogate pilots who manned the private jets of accused sex trafficker and pedophile Jeffrey Epstein.
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Also, someone who is speaking for their travel companion or acting defensive when they're spoken to could be a trafficker.
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The stunning testimony came from Alex Cifuentes, a Colombian trafficker who once served as Guzman's secretary and close personal aide.
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That night, the trafficker rented another hotel, posted Macy's photo online, and forced her to have sex with more men.
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In videos from the front line, Badi has been seen directing men as well as a U.N.-sanctioned people trafficker.
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In one, they concluded, a Honduran police officer planted a gun on the dead body of an unarmed drug trafficker.
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When I finally found an ape trafficker and had him on the phone, I stumbled over what, exactly, to say.
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Some items said she was married to a drug trafficker, others that she was a member of a criminal organization.
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"If a trafficker has 10 girls, they can make a lot of money between midnight and five o'clock," he said.
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"Azul was the one who basically supported Joaquín Guzmán Loera to be a great drug trafficker," Mr. Zambada said. *Mr.
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The young Wisconsin woman was 17 when she was arrested and charged with killing her alleged sex trafficker, Randall Volar.
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In that case, police used license plate data to track an alleged drug trafficker driving back and forth across bridges.
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But at least no one, on that occasion, spent time making excuses for hanging out with an alleged sex trafficker.
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After all, their goal in this trial was to ensure that the drug trafficker Joaquín Guzmán was brought to justice.
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Even if that means making little out of the transfer to the local prison of the world's most notorious drug trafficker.
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Being the heir to an industrial fortune, Francis's younger years were a far cry from those of a typical drug trafficker.
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No woman would choose this life, so this belief goes, and behind every woman trading sex is a pimp or trafficker.
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As for Robi, two and a half months after he disappeared, Jano received a message from a human trafficker in Thailand.
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Another possible explanation is that the mixing is happening not at the user level but at the dealer or trafficker level.
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His dad was widely known as a drug trafficker and a close friend of the Ochoa clan, of Medellín Cartel fame.
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Corea Diaz was charged with three counts of operating as a major drug trafficker and five counts of second-degree conspiracy.
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The photo actually shows stacks of money seized in 216 from Chinese-Mexican businessman and alleged meth trafficker Zhenli Ye Gon.
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Jeffrey Epstein Newly-incarcerated financier and accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein was found injured in his jail cell, authorities revealed Thursday.
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He took credit for being the first Colombian trafficker to use a submarine to send a load of cocaine to Mexico.
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The alleged Taiwanese trafficker was a diligent chronicler of the drug syndicate's activities, but sloppy when it came to information security.
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Over the course of several months, her trafficker made thousands of dollars, while she was raped by hundreds of adult men.
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Sometimes, when a victim of sex trafficking has been groomed enough, she becomes "the bottom," helping her trafficker recruit other victims.
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The Bureau also placed two staffers on administrative leave as probes into the death of the accused child sex trafficker continue.
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But she feared the police would arrest her, and she feared that her trafficker (who tracked her phone) would beat her.
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We can tell the truth about the men who enabled a child trafficker, and demand they are never given power again.
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Over the years, as the drug trade blossomed into a multibillion-dollar industry, he became much more than a mere trafficker.
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President Hernández later thanked the trafficker and told him he would be "protected from prosecution and law enforcement targeting," prosecutors wrote.
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Working as a construction worker, he managed to amass the $6,000 to pay a trafficker to get his family to Cyprus.
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Photo: Yongshan PoliceChinese police used a drone to track down a convicted human trafficker 17 years after he escaped from jail.
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In August, he amplified Williams' conspiracy theory that the death of accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein was connected to the Clintons.
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"Now we are all struggling to get the chemicals to Sinaloa from China," one drug trafficker told VICE from Culiacán, Sinaloa.
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The U.N. sanctions banned any weapons sales or financing for the trafficker, and ordered an asset freeze and travel ban on him.
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Video via YouTube In death, as he was in life, convicted Venezuelan drug trafficker Teófilo Rodríguez Cazorla was not a discreet man.
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He borrowed money from his family and paid 27,2000 Gambian Dalasi (about $28) to a trafficker to get as far as Libya.
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"Taurus clearly made use of a notorious international arms trafficker to triangulate its merchandise to other countries, especially Yemen," the documents said.
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Yes. But not the drug trafficker or conspirator whom the charges and mandatory minimum sentences were designed to target, the judge believed.
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You know you've found a friend forever when you go missing and that person poses as a human trafficker to find you.
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In 2014, she testified against her trafficker, David Bernard Anderson, who was on trial, accused of trafficking a 16-year-old girl.
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Smolenski says traffickers will sometimes "rent two rooms side by side," with the victim in one, and the trafficker in the other.
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Gaur says life in her village in Assam is still better than working for the trafficker, but now she has another problem.
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The only high-level trafficker in jail is a Thai, Chumlong Lemtongthai, who is serving a 13-year sentence in South Africa.
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The relationship between the sex trafficker and the exploited minor is often "a mental tether and not a physical chain," she said.
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Authorities now want to know who was behind the post, which contained medically accurate details about the financier and accused sex trafficker.
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The reality is that most foreign nationals who are trafficked into the U.S. come legally, on a visa orchestrated by the trafficker.
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President Donald Trump defended retweeting a message suggesting the Clintons had a role in the death of accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.
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President Donald Trump defended retweeting a message groundlessly linking the Clintons to the death of financier and alleged sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.
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While this trafficker was met with impunity, his victim couldn't get into some residential placement centers in Virginia because of long waitlists.
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The alleged trafficker, a friend of the children's family, made a deal to sell them for sex for $600, the FBI said.
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She was a kind of international trafficker who convinced the Leonovs that their future lay in the offices of Herbalife, in Quebec.
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The aide, Colombian trafficker Alex Cifuentes, said the money was given to Peña Nieto in October 2012, when he was president-elect.
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A recent request from the F.B.I. led to the identification of a child sex trafficker who advertised his services on social media.
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The same office had been lenient with the accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein and initially failed to prosecute accusations against Harvey Weinstein.
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During the so-called crack epidemic in the late 20143s, the perceived user and trafficker of crack was black, young and menacing.
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Gómez referred to the actress's tequila business and to the movie project as potential areas of financial collusion with the drug trafficker.
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Here's what they said: Frank*, a cannabis trafficker in southwestern Ontario, is on track to take home $300,000 [$230,902 USD] this year.
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Her journey came full circle a decade ago when she met a 13-year-old Guyanese girl who had just escaped her trafficker.
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" His brother, Antonio Hernandez Alvarado, was arrested in November 2018 by US investigators in Miami, accused of being a "large-scale drug trafficker.
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His office extradited and sent to jail arms trafficker Viktor Bout and put Faisal Shahzad, the Times Square bomber, behind bars for life.
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When I arrived, however, I was told by my trafficker that the only available job was in a Huntsville, Alabama DVD-manufacturing company.
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Galvez Calle is considered a prolific drug trafficker by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime and Peruvian police, Villegas told journalists.
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One of his brothers, the late Jaime Alberto, was a suspected trafficker, too, linked to a major Colombian branch of the Sinaloa Cartel.
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Their suspected trafficker, authorities say, was a friend of the family who had offered an undercover officer sex with the girls for $600.
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"The girl shudders at the mention of her trafficker and when she was brought to us, she was very, very frightened," said Mohamed.
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Colombian trafficker Alex Cifuentes caused a stir by testifying that former Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto took a $100 million bribe from Guzman.
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Aged nine, Bo Soe's mother took him from Myanmar to Thailand in 13, where he was forced by a trafficker to sell roses.
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Earlier that day, after six months on the run, Joaquín "El Chapo" (Shorty) Guzmán, the country's most notorious drug-trafficker, had been recaptured.
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Video dating back more than 28503 years gives us a look at the relationship between President Trump and accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.
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President Donald Trump spread an unsubstantiated conspiracy theory suggesting the Clintons were involved in the death of the accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.
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One afternoon, as we talked on Skype, he answered a call from a drug trafficker in California who had been released from prison.
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K was paid £50 [$72] a week for his full-time work, with the majority of his salary going directly to his trafficker.
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Between prison stints, he worked as a sex trafficker, shuttling women from Ukraine to clients in Moscow, a former criminal associate told me.
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After studying the conflict, a powerful trafficker named Ismael Zambada García broke away from the Tijuana group and allied himself with Mr. Guzmán.
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Related: Ecuador Just Captured a Peruvian Drug Trafficker Known as 'Tony Montana' Oropeza is now in jail awaiting trial on drug-trafficking charges.
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Mr. Guzmán had paid the visit to the respected older trafficker to ask for his permission to assassinate a rival, Mr. Martínez said.
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The court awarded compensation of 146,000 rupees ($2,042) to be divided between the boys, who had faced threats from their trafficker for testifying.
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Veteran trafficker "El Mayo" Zambada is one of the leaders of the Sinaloa Cartel, once fronted by imprisoned kingpin Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman.
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But at the time she was alone, trapped in debt bondage, and pregnant with the child of a human trafficker who'd raped her.
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The shipment worth an estimated $503 million and belonging to the country's most notorious drug trafficker, presented a brief victory for Colombia's forces.
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The quote on his tombstone refers to him as "the son of a heavy," implying he was the son of an important drug trafficker.
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A suspected drug trafficker and alleged fugitive was arrested on Thursday in Massachusetts after unsuccessfully disguising himself as an elderly man to evade police.
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She was arrested, it says, in 2008 with her then husband, a Colombian drug trafficker, and was convicted of trafficking and money laundering herself.
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Instead, the report said, Taurus worked with Itkan Corporation for General Trading, a Yemeni firm owned by Adeeb Mana'a, son of the arms trafficker.
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"To receive protections as victims of trafficking they have to cooperate with law enforcement and that usually means identifying a trafficker," the professor explained.
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In one alleged case, a trafficker imported hundreds of motorbikes using the Frelimo imprimatur, all of which had heroin packed into their petrol tanks.
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FBI agents on Monday were searching the Virgin Islands residence of Jeffrey Epstein, an accused child sex trafficker, a bureau spokesman told NBC News.
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I don't know about that particular section, but it's more likely to me that some human trafficker killed those individuals, not that they drowned.
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Bakers find proof of the Storm's effects and validity with every news article where any sort of human trafficker or child predator is apprehended.
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Spanish media said the raid was linked to another of the lawyer's clients, an alleged drug trafficker, and was not linked to Puigdemont himself.
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Earlier this year, the Office of Foreign Assets Control designated Venezuelan Vice President Tareck El Aissami, referring to him as a prominent drug trafficker.
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Juan Pablo Badillo is calling BS on Penn's Rolling Stone article, in which he says Chapo boasted he was the world's premiere drug trafficker.
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"These are false accusations made by a drug trafficker," Hernandez said, while acknowledging that such a document had been put before a U.S. judge.
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Mr. Eppolito came under suspicion in April 1984 when the authorities raided the New Jersey home of Rosario Gambino, a mobster and heroin trafficker.
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For example, consider the case of a woman in Connecticut who called police to report her sex trafficker but then was arrested for prostitution.
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HAPPENING LATER Law and order Jury selection starts today in the trial of accused drug trafficker (and world-class escape artist) "El Chapo" Guzman.
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Amilcar Alexander Ardon, a former mayor and confessed killer and narco trafficker, testified before jurors in the US Southern District Court of New York.
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The financier and accused sex trafficker hanged himself with a bed sheet in his cell, just weeks after he was removed from suicide watch.
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Prince Andrew is stepping out of the public eye for the "foreseeable future" over his problematic ties to accused child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.
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Now, the apparent suicide of accused child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein adds another past element to Starr's legacy, given his past representation of Epstein.
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The trafficker knew him as Ross, a major distributor of drugs in the United States, and was looking to supply both heroin and meth.
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He had visions of a massive dragnet: FBI agents amassing warrants on every known Facebook trafficker and rounding them up in one epic bust.
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The National Guard is responsible not only for internal security but also the frontiers, ports and airports, access to which every drug trafficker needs.
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An anonymous man would really like to keep his name — and his alleged connection to the deceased child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein — a secret.
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Mr. Bishun, the informant whose murder sits at the center of the case, had been a heroin trafficker in the Bronx, prosecutors have said.
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For two seasons, it was a show about the life and death of Pablo Escobar, the Columbian drug trafficker who became a cocaine billionaire.
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The case really began in 2014, when Tsirogiannis tracked down the Python vase by consulting the records of a convicted antiquities trafficker, Giacomo Medici.
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On Sunday morning, she finally returned home, but as a convicted drug trafficker — and one of Australia's most well-known, if not favorite, criminals.
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The resignation comes after Stallman made comments about victims of child trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, including that the victims went along with the abuse willingly.
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Born to royalty in Burma, Olive Yang, who died on July 31, rejected her birthright to become a cross-dressing warlord and opium trafficker.
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On March 17, suspected Mexican drug trafficker Juan Jose Esparragoza Monzon busted out of a prison in northwest Mexico, accompanied by four other men.
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Clearly he was bad, because he was a racketeer, an extortionist (though "rent collector" was the term he preferred), an arms trafficker and a mobster.
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Chuck Schumer said he will donate an amount of money equivalent to contributions made by accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein more than 20 years ago.
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On Thursday, two men just inside the shelter could be overheard on mobile phones asking for a coyote, or human trafficker, to attempt another crossing.
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Under Malaysian law, anyone found guilty of possessing more than 50 grams of illegal drugs is considered a trafficker and faces a mandatory death penalty.
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"I've suffered worse," he said, noting that during the decade before he came to power he was arrested, beaten and branded as a drug trafficker.
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Promised a lucrative job in a hotel in Missouri, Benin Santos paid thousands of dollars to her trafficker to bring her into the country legally.
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The guerrillas wanted to buy some new weapons, and Georgescu, a 22-year-old Romanian arms trafficker, said he had just what they were after.
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The guerrillas wanted to buy some new weapons, and Georgescu, a 29-year-old Romanian arms trafficker, said he had just what they were after.
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Furthermore, CEO Wexner has been scrutinized recently for his reported ties to accused child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, who's been said to exploit underage girls.
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The United States has extradited an alleged drug trafficker to Mexico nearly a decade after police discovered $205 million hidden throughout his Mexico City mansion.
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What happened: Corrupt police officers had been escorting a drug trafficker with 1,700 pounds of coke when they were busted by a lower-ranking officer.
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Guzman, boss of the powerful Sinaloa Cartel, was for years the world's most wanted drug trafficker until his capture by Mexican Marines in February 2014.
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Other films to have been used in this way include "Mardaani", a 2014 film in which a woman police officer takes on a child trafficker.
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A Mexican soldier was murdered while guarding the perimeter of a prison where Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán, Mexico's most powerful drug- trafficker, is being held.
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To help pinpoint corrupt workers, federal agents used a confidential source who posed as a trafficker looking for postal employees to deliver cocaine and marijuana.
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Cover: In this March 19, 2009 file photo, drug trafficker Jesus Vicente Zambada Niebla is presented to the media after his arrest in Mexico City.
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"Before there were laws to identify and protect victims — even before I escaped my trafficker — Hillary Clinton was fighting to end modern slavery," she said.
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The Navy had said earlier in the day that Gastelum escaped in the raid but did not mention Guzman, the world's most-wanted drug trafficker.
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It is also very hard to track and bring perpetrators to justice, because even the victims don't quite know who's the trafficker, who's the pimp.
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Prosecutors hope to show at the trial how Guzman rose from a low-level marijuana trafficker in the 1970s to lead the powerful Sinaloa Cartel.
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In April, Guatemala's Attorney General's Office confirmed that they are investigating whether Morales might have received illicit campaign financing, including from a known drug trafficker.
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Federal agents searched late financier and accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein's private island, Little St. James, on Monday, according to CNBC, citing a bureau spokesperson.
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"But to try to lock up an international arms trafficker, you're dancing with the devil," said Nicholas J. Nargi, DEA assistant special agent in charge.
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She could find a trafficker to smuggle her out, but refugees who take that route are often placed with employers who beat and exploit them.
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In the late eighties, Lozada went to Ecuador with a group of guerrillas to kidnap a wealthy narco-trafficker linked to the Cali cocaine cartel.
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Over 22015 weeks, prosecutors have called 22015 witnesses who have portrayed her husband as a vengeful drug trafficker, a bloodthirsty killer and a habitual philanderer.
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A police investigator in Russia is believed to have been killed by two teenagers who were hired by a drug trafficker on the dark net.
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The Bald Lady doesn't care if you're gay or straight, rich or poor, a narco trafficker or a narc — death has a place for you.
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He also has a warm relationship with Tareck El Aissami, Venezuela's vice president, who has been sanctioned by the United States as a drug trafficker.
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A few days after that, an American aid worker was kidnapped and taken to Mali, and a notorious Toubou narco-trafficker was assassinated in public.
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The memo said the same trafficker bribed legislators after that election to ensure that President Hernández would be elected the president of the Honduran Congress.
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As a result of their testimony and the skilful strategy of the prosecuting attorney, their primary trafficker was sentenced to 25 years in federal prison.
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Meanwhile, the smartphone enabled citizens to easily compare their living standards with Paris or Phoenix — and find a human trafficker app to take them there.
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The cocaine seized Wednesday belonged to Dairo Úsuga, also known as Otoniel, who heads the Urabeños drugs cartel and is Colombia's most wanted drugs trafficker.
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Rather, one of their partners in the BGF had a relationship with a trafficker who was a cog in the wheel of El Chapo's Sinaloa cartel.
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Jailed trafficker meets victim who put him away Then it increased to ironing clothes a few hours a day, which eventually turned into 16-hour shifts.
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On the coast, at least one trafficker escaped on foot, while officers towed away the half-dozen or so minibuses they had driven to the coast.
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Law enforcement caught the drug mules by using a confidential source who posed as a drug trafficker looking for postal workers to complete deliveries for them.
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We don't know who will kill the infamous drug trafficker on the show, but executive producer Eric Newman has confirmed Escobar won't survive beyond this season.
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The jailed Mexican cartel boss and the deceased Colombian cocaine trafficker have been feted in song and on screen for their extravagant lifestyles and extreme violence.
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"I want to change," a Cebu-based businessman tagged as a top-level drug trafficker told reporters after he met national police chief Ronald dela Rosa.
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"A young trafficking survivor called Radhika wondered why we hadn't reached her village with the books before her trafficker did," Isaac told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.
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A suspected drug trafficker identified as Isidoro Gonzáles Gerónimo, aka "El Isis," was shot and killed in Oaxaca, the same day, the state attorney's office said.
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"The best feature is the alert mechanism that tells investigators if there are other cases registered involving the same trafficker they are looking for," said Thommy.
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Even when a commercial sex patron or trafficker is correctly identified, they are rarely prosecuted as we would expect, while victims continue to be mistakenly criminalized.
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Messaging your gun-toting, drug-trafficking friends by way of encrypted message isn't proof that you're a gun-toting drug-trafficker, an Ontario court has ruled.
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"Once manipulated" by the sex trafficker, "she can be in any social space and still be exploited but not see herself as a victim," she continued.
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A young person is more likely to meet her trafficker for the first time online rather than in person, due to the rise of social media.
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Later, I struggled with the physical and psychological wounds resulting from more than a decade of sexual and physical abuse at the hands of my trafficker.
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The only noticeable clue is the deep scar on her cheek, one that was gouged into her face with a potato peeler by her human trafficker.
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But his regret is not of glamorizing the world's most notorious drug trafficker or that he may have aided and abetted a fugitive on the run.
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New York City's chief medical examiner ruled on Friday that the financier and accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein died by suicide, The New York Times reported.
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Beadle was not in possession of a large sum of money, drug paraphernalia, a scale or any other items to suggest he was a drug trafficker.
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Apple on Friday filed its response to the government's continuing bid to force it to unlock the iPhone of a convicted drug trafficker in New York.
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In a video, Mr. Velásquez recalled where he was in 1993 when the authorities killed Mr. Escobar, the ruthless cocaine trafficker who ran the Medellín cartel.
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Among the statements by Lichtman that prosecutors challenged was what they called his insistence that the government contended that Guzman was the world's "biggest" drug trafficker.
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Last fall, a man I'll call Michael sat down at his computer, logged into Facebook, and prepared to begin his new life as a wildlife trafficker.
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There has also been gore: On Thursday, jurors heard the tale of a trafficker who was shot in the heart while parked at a gas station.
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Mr. El Aissamí has been sanctioned by the United States over allegations that he is a narcotics trafficker, which blocks Americans from doing business with him.
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Mr. Martínez recounted, for example, how he and his boss once went to visit Juan José Esparragoza, a veteran trafficker who was serving time in prison.
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For seven weeks, prosecutors have made the case that Keith Raniere, the leader of a self-help company, is actually a crime boss and sex trafficker.
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The brothers worked closely with their cousin, the legendary Sinaloan trafficker Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán, until 2008, when the brothers blamed Chapo for the arrest of Alfredo.
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"There is a debt bondage that's between $1,000 and $2,000 a day that these girls must bring, must hand in to their trafficker or else," says Redsky.
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The move by the Venezuelan government comes just two days after US authorities said El Aissami is an international drug trafficker and slapped severe sanctions on him.
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This terrifies the young woman into thinking that curses will befall her family unless the debt to the trafficker, which can be around $50,000, is paid off.
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Victoria's Secret owner, L Brands, has hired outside counsel to review the company's relationship with accused child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, a company spokesperson said on Thursday.
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Deutsche Bank notified U.S. financial watchdogs about suspicious transactions by accused child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein — a customer of the bank — according to a new report Tuesday.
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Her trafficker took the little money Benin Santos made and put it towards exorbitant charges for rent and food, keeping Benin Santos firmly locked in debt bondage.
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Attorney General William Barr will not recuse himself from involvement in the new federal criminal prosecution of accused child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, an official said Tuesday.
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After stints in Kuwait, London, and Iraq, a trafficker brought him to the United States, where he worked as a tandoori chef in restaurants around the midwest.
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The woman, who called herself Sister Ping—coincidentally, the name of a famous human trafficker—said that there would be better opportunities for Su's children in America.
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The U.S. blacklisted Venezuela's vice president as a drug trafficker in February, and Trump later that month called for the release of jailed opposition leader Leopoldo Lopez.
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The financier and accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein ordered books on Amazon about sadomasochism and how to use sex slaves, according to court documents unsealed on Friday.
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It's a who's who of drug lords: chief among them, Miguel Ángel Félix Gallardo (Diego Luna), the most powerful trafficker in Mexico before his arrest in 1989.
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Meanwhile, the internet has enabled citizens to easily compare their living standards with those in Paris or Phoenix — and find a human trafficker to take them there.
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Like ICE, Vecchi says that the FBI can get permission to engage in illegal activity, which could include posing as a human trafficker or a drug dealer.
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Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis again accused Turkey on Tuesday of deliberately encouraging migrants to head to the border and branded the country "an official migrant trafficker".
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So they gambled their savings on one human trafficker after another, crossing Turkey and voyaging to Lesbos, only to discover that they'd traded one hell for another.
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In 2013, the trafficker spent $1.5 million to support President Hernández's presidential campaign and an additional $40,000 to support his re-election in 2017, the memo said.
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In a separate case in Brooklyn, the FBI on Friday said it will continue to seek Apple's help in unlocking the iPhone of a convicted drug trafficker.
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A radio station employee summarized the story with a more urgent headline — "Suspected Human Trafficker, Child Predator May Be in Our Area" — and posted it on Facebook.
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Mr. Carvajal is wanted for similar crimes himself, having been accused of taking money from a Colombian drug trafficker in an indictment that was unsealed in 2014.
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Related: In Photos: The Social Media of Brazil's Gang Wars The trafficker allegedly used WhatsApp services while committing crimes, and the court wanted to access his communications.
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He was the grinning, sociopathic "Curly Bill," terrorizing the citizens of 1993's Tombstone, and the lawman's old friend turned bloodthirsty drug trafficker in 1987's Extreme Prejudice.
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It may be the only time that the trafficking victim is [separated] from their trafficker… We've always recognized that healthcare workers are on the frontline of helping victims.
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Its founder, Peng Jiasheng, has been identified by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) as a major trafficker since 1975, according to U.S. diplomatic cables released by Wikileaks.
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In that time Chapo became the world's most notorious trafficker and a major protagonist in the violence that has ravaged large parts of Mexico over the last decade.
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Attorney Jose Baez, best-known for winning an acquittal for Casey Anthony, described Bradley as a dangerous drug trafficker who had a personal vendetta against the two men.
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The judge said a "mountain range of evidence" against the trafficker strongly countered his attorneys' claims that jurors engaged in misconduct by following media coverage during the proceedings.
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He was considered the most "powerful drug trafficker in the world" by the Treasury Department and his criminal enterprise spanned continents and triggered bloodshed throughout his native Mexico.
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Her portrayal of a merciless drug trafficker in the 2011 hit soap opera "La Reina del Sur," or "The Queen of the South," had clearly struck a chord.
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Jeffrey Epstein, an accused child sex trafficker, is appealing a federal judge's decision to deny his proposed bail package, which left the wealthy financier in jail pending trial.
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Instead, the trafficker let Benin Santos' work visa expire (leaving her undocumented), and took her to Panama, FL, where Benin Santos was forced to work as a cleaner.
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President Donald Trump retweeted a conspiracy theory that, with no evidence, tries to connect former president Bill Clinton to the death of accused child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.
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The article traces Mack's path from a bubbly Hollywood starlet to an alleged sex trafficker who faces 15 years in a federal penitentiary if convicted on all charges.
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President Donald Trump's Labor secretary, Alex Acosta, defended a 2007 deal with accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein on Tuesday amid renewed scrutiny over his actions in the case.
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I grew up in the era where Amado Carrillo Fuentes, AKA El Señor de Los Cielos ("The Lord of the Skies"), was the biggest drug trafficker in Mexico.
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The man once considered the world's biggest drug trafficker is accused of heading a criminal enterprise that spanned continents and triggered waves of bloodshed throughout his native Mexico.
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Her trafficker was actually in Virginia, prostituting her on the streets, while he was on pre-trial release for a malicious wounding charge against another sex trafficking victim.
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How one Epstein victim was said to be recruited from Mar-a-Lago, and all the other connections between the accused sex trafficker and Trump's Palm Beach resort
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The other paid a trafficker to cross the southern border where he was jailed for seven months and then released into the possession of a social service agency.
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In at least three major public cases, the DEA has paid out huge sums to informants after sting operations:One against the Russian arms trafficker Viktor Bout in 2008.
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The answer, regrettably, is Jeffrey Epstein, the alleged sex trafficker and convicted sex offender who died by suicide last Saturday at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in lower Manhattan.
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Prince Andrew spoke with "BBC Newsnight" about his friendship with the disgraced financier and accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, reviving a news cycle that had gone relatively quiet.
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Its leader, Peng Jiasheng, has been identified as a major drugs trafficker by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency, according to U.S. diplomatic cables, dated 2009, released by Wikileaks.
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It showed, for example, how common it is for minor trafficking survivors to run away and that children often relapse repeatedly before finally breaking free of their trafficker.
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Mr. Fels described the defendant as a seasoned trafficker who had ascended to the top of his cartel after getting a start growing poppies and marijuana in Sinaloa.
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The conditions they were escaping include: climate change devastating crops; drug cartels running entire villages; flights of trafficker cocaine landing in the forest; and gang violence killing regularly.
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But Abrams credited Romagnoli for cooperating with authorities, including by testifying against Virgil Flaviu Georgescu, an accused international arms trafficker who was convicted at a trial in May.
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The men and women who will decide the fate of a defendant once considered the world's most powerful and ruthless drug trafficker will hear opening statements on Tuesday.
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He said that he was there to write a story for Rolling Stone , and that he would like to do a series of interviews with the drug trafficker.
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For three years, she was forced to work as a prostitute on the streets of Moscow, repaying a $218,2654 debt to the trafficker who brought her from Nigeria.
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QUITO, Ecuador — The drug trafficker was sitting in a Colombian prison cell, but he claimed to have a very valuable connection — the interior and justice minister of Venezuela.
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Tuesday, Mr. Lichtman submitted his client's name to the prosecution as a potential witness for the defense, confirming that the drug trafficker might testify in his own trial.
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El Gallo — Tomas Reyes Gonzalez, a drug trafficker now in federal prison — supplied the cash to the former Hidalgo County sheriff, Guadalupe Trevino, for his re-election campaign.
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Her father was incarcerated, and a trafficker named George Gilbert Howard, 20 years her senior, began grooming her for sex work when she was just 11 years old.
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Seeking leads about who might be a drug trafficker, the D.E.A. started in 2008 to issue blanket administrative subpoenas to vendors to learn who was buying money counters.
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But allegations by Mr Guzmán himself, who was captured after boasting to Sean Penn, an American actor, that he was the world's biggest drug trafficker, may not be reliable.
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They added that there had been a "campaign in the press" to try to muddy the evidence and protect the trafficker, who they said was known as "the General".
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They produced a huge amount of information — fake information — about me, accusing me from being a pedophile to being an extortionist to a drug trafficker to a car thief.
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Another trafficker from the era, Teddy Thompson, recalls how when New York street dealers began trying to move in on New Haven's market, the local crews bared their teeth.
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Usually her trafficker would laugh at her, but one time in particular stands out, when an attempt to leave became physical and she feared her life was at risk.
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There is no more difficult thing for deputies and officers than tell a parent that their child has died of a drug overdose or during a drug trafficker squabble.
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But for the young person involved, the trafficker was the best available resource for supplying shelter and food, ensuring safety, providing emotional connections and offering a sense of worth.
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Two years later, her sex trafficker was arrested for the malicious wounding of a woman in Fairfax County, Virginia, though he was not prosecuted when the victim went missing.
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Since the U.S.-assisted deposing of the dictator and drug-trafficker Manuel Noriega in 1989, there has been a succession of democratically elected leaders from left, right and center.
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Although many of these efforts are framed as going after drug dealers and traffickers, the line between who is a dealer or trafficker versus a user is often blurry.
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At the time of the murder, Brown, who was 16 and had run away from home, was living in a motel with a trafficker who peddled her for sex.
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Justice porn is seeing Olivia Benson and whatever partner she's with nailing criminals—a rapist, a killer, an extortionist, a blackmailer, a sex-trafficker—and putting them in prison.
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Although the investment is high – a trafficker may have to sink as much as $231,2000 into the chemicals or raw fentanyl needed to generate product – the returns are huge.
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Decreased enforcement in the Empire State and increased production out west has created a coast-to-coast "pot pipeline"—which Krishna follows alongside a trafficker who's mastered the route.
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You might think some college kids letting off steam to the sounds of Future would be far preferable to a deadly cocaine trafficker like Griselda Blanco walking the block.
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Federal agents investigating the contract killings tied them to a Colombian trafficker from the Norte Valle drug cartel: Juan Carlos Ramírez Abadía, known as Chupeta, Spanish slang for Lollipop.
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Attorney General William Barr asked the Justice Department's inspector general on Saturday to investigate alleged sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein's death, as the FBI conducts an investigation of its own.
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Wexner's history with accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein had in recent months made investors cautious about the company's ambitions to spin off its Victoria's Secret business late last year.
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Before Blessing disappeared, she met with a Yoruba trafficker without telling her family, but she balked when she discovered that the woman wanted her to become a sex worker.
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Federal investigators allege the guards failed to conduct regular safety checks on the accused sex trafficker, who had been placed on suicide watch after a previous failed suicide attempt.
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But the accusation that Mr. El Aissami, the next in line for the presidency, is a drug trafficker is certain to set a new, more hostile tone in relations.
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Among Mr. García Luna's trophies while serving in Mr. Calderón's cabinet was the arrest in 2010 of Edgar Valdez Villarreal, known as La Barbie, an American-born drug trafficker.
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But unlike some other wealthy and powerful Epstein associates, Wexner has yet to face consequences for his relationship with the accused child sex trafficker, who died earlier this year.
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The ancient ring being sought by the U.S. government is believed to be in the hands of Turkish law enforcement, after it was confiscated from a Syrian antiquities trafficker.
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It alleges that Tareck El Aissami, Venezuela's vice-president, is a "prominent" drug trafficker, who amassed great wealth through his connections to gangs across Latin America, including Mexico's vicious Zetas.
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And even if we put them on the bus back, who&aposs to say that they&aposre not with the sex trafficker and you return them back with that person.
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In these cases, authorities are always eager to find someone they can call the trafficker, even if that's someone with a legitimate reason to think their "victim" is an adult.
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At one point she became pregnant, but she was not free: Her trafficker kicked and kicked her until she delivered the months-old fetus, a boy, on the bathroom floor.
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Attorney General William Barr said Monday that there were "serious irregularities" at the Manhattan federal jail where Jeffrey Epstein, an accused child sex trafficker, apparently killed himself over the weekend.
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Chuck Schumer will offset more than $7,000 in campaign contributions from accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein by donating the money to anti-sex trafficking and anti-violence against women groups.
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Obada was just 10 years old when his mother arranged for him and his sister to be taken to England from her home in the Netherlands by a human trafficker.
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The smiley blonde model, Brittany Fogarty—whose father John Fogarty, was a Mafia hitman and drug trafficker who was arrested in 1991—is an outspoken new perspective on the mob.
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In 2012, an Afghan drug trafficker with ties to the Taliban was convicted in federal court of trafficking heroin and using the proceeds to finance the Taliban insurgency in Afghanistan.
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The U.N. panel's report identified a Syrian arms trafficker, Hussein al-Ali, as a foreign intermediary for North Korea who allegedly sought to sell arms to Houthi rebels in Yemen.
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The move comes in the appeal case of a drug trafficker who was convicted, in part, because of emails Yahoo provided to law enforcement that conspirators believed had been deleted.
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The director of the MIT Media Lab Center for Civic Media he is resigning in protest over the center's ties to the late financier and accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.
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An autopsy of the late financier and accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein revealed multiple broken bones in his neck, two people familiar with the findings have told The Washington Post.
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In May, a mob whipped up by fake accounts spread on the messaging service WhatsApp attacked and killed a transgender woman they falsely accused her of being a child trafficker.
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Incidents reported in April alone include the death of a five-year-old boy, and five men killed during a police operation to locate a drug trafficker who got away.
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Mexican authorities closed in on Guzmán shortly after the October meeting between the Hollywood star and the globe's most famous drug trafficker, but Guzmán slipped through their clutches until Friday.
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Jones evaluated the constitutionality of police investigators' placement of a GPS tracker on the Jeep of a suspected drug trafficker to monitor his movements for a month without a warrant.
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One poor woman is left in excruciating pain for 24 hours, and Meredith's ex-boyfriend Andrew DeLuca (Giacomo Gianniotti) accuses the relative of a patient of being a human trafficker.
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The DNA would be used to match a carcass to a particular horn discovered on a suspected poacher or trafficker, or to rhinoceros blood on his clothes, knives or axes.
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"Smallville" actress and alleged sex trafficker Allison Mack can't talk to any of the people in the alleged sex cult she reportedly helped build, a federal judge ruled on Tuesday.
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Trump has also pushed for Harvard Law professor Alan Dershowitz, although he may be tainted by his ties to the late accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, whom Dershowitz once represented.
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The 82-year-old Wexner's extensive history with accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein made some investors wary of such a deal, a person familiar with the situation at the time.
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Del Castillo had spent much of the year starring as a drug trafficker in "La Reina del Sur" ("The Queen of the South"), a sixty-three-episode telenovela on Telemundo.
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In the past several years, the major lingerie retailer has been criticized for everything from its lack of inclusivity to its CEO's friendship with the accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.
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Two new alleged survivors of Jeffrey Epstein's abuse just joined a lawsuit against the late financier's estate, alleging that the accused sex trafficker assaulted them when they were young girls.
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Edo State, Nigeria (CNN)In a lurid pink hotel room in Edo State, southern Nigeria, a trafficker is arranging to smuggle us across the continent to Libya -- and ultimately Europe.
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Although "tough on crime" efforts are often framed as going after drug dealers and traffickers, the line between who is a dealer or trafficker versus a user can be blurry.
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WATCH: How I Became an International Cocaine Trafficker Alexander spent the first nine years of his life moving; he lost count of the many houses and schools he passed through.
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In the mid-1980s Guadalupe Leija Serrano ran off to Venezuela with drug trafficker Rafael Enrique Clavel, taking with her the two young children she had with Salazar, Nataly and Jesús.
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Asylum was her goal: She had been threatened with death by a drug trafficker after she had spurned his romantic advances and his efforts to recruit her into his criminal business.
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In the docs, obtained by TMZ, Unsworth denies the "pedo" allegation -- saying he's "not married to a 12-year-old child" ... nor is he a child rapist or child sex trafficker.
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News Analysis MEXICO CITY — Pinning down the meaning of Joaquín Guzmán Loera — the deadly and celebrated Mexican drug trafficker known as El Chapo — is a constant battle between tragedy and farce.
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Related: Colombian Police Have Tracked Down 'The Snail', Peru's Most-Wanted Drug Trafficker Keegan Hamilton, Valerio Bassan, Joe Parkin Daniels, Simeon Tegel, Gaston Cavanagh, and Jo Tuckman contributed to this report.
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As the investigation into Tse deepened, police suspected that the Canadian was the major trafficker supplying Australia with meth and heroin, with a lucrative sideline in MDMA, commonly known as ecstasy.
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It transformed Tony—a former congressman and member of the country's ruling National Party —into a "large-scale trafficker," according to the US indictment against him that dropped late last month.
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The role of Kate del Castillo, a Mexican and American actress, in brokering the meeting between the fugitive drug trafficker and actor Sean Penn for a magazine interview has been reported.
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Copies of TV episodes of "La Reina de Sur," del Castillo's most famous role, portraying a fictional trafficker, were found in the safehouse Guzman was hiding in prior to his capture.
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President Donald Trump on Saturday retweeted an unsubstantiated conspiracy theory about the death of the accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein just hours after Epstein was found dead in an apparent suicide.
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Attorneys for financier and accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein said his death in federal custody was "far more consistent with assault" than suicide in a court hearing Tuesday, according to Newsweek.
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They plan to tell the jury about his epic rise from mid-level drug trafficker to leader of Mexico's most powerful cartel, an ascent made possible by his cunning and ruthlessness.
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As part of its investigation into Ramos and Phantom Secure, the FBI has at least one cooperating witness—a convicted transnational drug trafficker from the Sinaloa cartel—according to the complaint.
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Jalou Ayer, 24, a migrant from Conakry, Guinea, said he had tried the fence eight times, until he finally paid a trafficker to take him around it in an inflatable dinghy.
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In Mahi Binebine's dramatic and lyrical novel "Welcome to Paradise," translated by Lulu Norman, a trafficker ferries a boatful of desperate migrants across the Strait of Gibraltar from Morocco toward Europe.
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One one occasion, a trafficker beat a woman for six hours, videotaping much of it and leaving blood on the hotel room's walls, while the staff did nothing, the lawsuit alleges.
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That harrowing, but ultimately successful, flight was Miguel Angel Martínez's first full mission as an employee for a newcomer in the drug trade, a young ambitious trafficker named Joaquín Guzmán Loera.
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The government will continue to seek Apple's help in unlocking the iPhone of a convicted drug trafficker in a carefully watched case in Brooklyn, according to court documents filed on Friday.
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"They need to understand, as the prime minister has repeatedly emphasized, that if they give their money to a trafficker to bring them to Greece, they will lose it," he said.
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Surveillance video footage from outside the jail cell of accused child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein during his first reported suicide attempt in July has been inadvertently deleted, federal prosecutors revealed Thursday.
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In 2018, they helped rescue a young woman in the southwest who was betrayed by a boyfriend by turning her over to a sex trafficker, who subjected her to horrific abuse.
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"The sentencing of Joseph Hunter, an admitted contract killer, convicted drug trafficker, and ringleader of trained assassins, ends another chapter in a chilling criminal case that spanned the globe," Bharara said.
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" The kingpin was arrested on Saturday in the Colombian city of Medellin, Colombia's National Defense Ministry said in a statement that described him as "the most wanted drug trafficker in Peru.
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In 27, Remzi Azemi, a Kosovan Albanian and alleged cocaine trafficker, was murdered in a gang-style assassination as he travelled with his family in an armored car in Guayaqil, Ecuador.
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But a month after he was interred the severed head of a man was found placed in front of his mausoleum, his headless body dumped atop the tomb of a rival trafficker.
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Jorge Cifuentes-Villa was a major Colombian cocaine trafficker who testified about gifting Chapo a helicopter and sending his younger brother Alex to serve as Chapo's lieutenant in the mountains of Sinaloa.
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A pathologist hired by Jeffrey Epstein's brother is now backing the conspiracy theory that the accused child sex trafficker might've died by homicide — not suicide — in his Manhattan jail cell in August.
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Police found a weapons cache of 17 guns, a grenade launcher, and white supremacist propaganda — including a document called the "N****r Owner's Manual" — in the home of a suspected drug trafficker.
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Epstein, 20013, the accused child sex trafficker and super-rich money manager who once counted as friends former President Bill Clinton and President Donald Trump, is expected to appear at 11 a.m.
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BANGKOK (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - A Thai trafficker was sentenced to a record 374 years in jail for child trafficking in a ruling that lawyers say will send a deterrent to other criminals.
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Julian Pacheco Tinoco, was recently identified as a drug trafficker by a U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration informant in the course of a trial involving the nephews of the first lady of Venezuela.
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FBI agents seized computers from wealthy financier Jeffrey Epstein's home in the Virgin Islands during a raid of the private island owned by the late accused sex trafficker, according to drone footage.
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This eye-popping fact about the cartel's so-called "corruption budget" was revealed yesterday in testimony by a former Mexican drug trafficker during the trial of alleged kingpin Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman.
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Accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein died by suicide after he used his bed sheet to hang himself while in federal custody, according to the official coroner's report on his cause of death.
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The migrants, numbering about 140 and of Eritrean, Ethiopian and Somali nationality, had been held by "notorious trafficker Mousa Diab", according to a separate statement by the U.N. migration and refugee agencies.
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FBI agents descended upon Jeffrey Epstein's private, Caribbean estate, dubbed locally "pedophile Island," just two days after the accused child sex trafficker appears to have hanged himself in a Manhattan jail cell.
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In September, 2004, agents from the D.E.A.'s Special Operations Division brought Enotiades into an investigation targeting a Colombian cocaine trafficker named José María Corredor Ibagué, who went by the nickname Boyaco.
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Three more women who say they were sexually abused by late financier and accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein sued his estate Tuesday under a newly enacted New York law, according to Reuters.
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Mexican drug trafficker José Díaz Barajas, 49, was arrested during the 2014 World Cup in Brazil while boarding a flight from Rio de Janeiro to Fortaleza, the city hosting the Mexico vs.
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ATHENS (Reuters) - A knife-wielding human trafficker prevented survivors of a shipwreck from pulling others to safety, leaving them to drown in the dark, one of the surviving migrants said on Thursday.
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Investigators believe what they uncovered was a trafficker who sat at the center of one of the broadest sports doping networks in American history, with tendrils that extended to Europe and Asia.
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Like a number of others who have drifted into terrorist behavior, Mr. Lakdim had a history as a petty criminal and small-time drug trafficker, and he had served time in prison.
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That night, the victim's trafficker ... came to the victim's room and ruthlessly beat her for confiding in the employee and trying to escape, saying, 'You think somebody is going to help you?
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New York (CNN)The jail cell death of accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein over the weekend positioned prosecutors to pursue his associates, some of whom allegedly assisted him in abusing underage girls.
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In November 2018, a prominent Brazilian drug trafficker, Marcelo Pinheiro Veiga, killed a teenage prostitute who had been taken to a special cell designed for him in a heavily secured police station.
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Katyal is a frequent critic of Trump's and earlier this year knocked the president for retweeting a conspiracy theory linking the death of multimillionaire sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein to former President Clinton.
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A Brown University fundraising director has been placed on administrative leave as the school investigates his involvement with alleged sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein while working at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
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Prince Andrew tangled up in the Epstein case Britain's Prince Andrew stepped back from royal duties after a disastrous BBC interview in November about his friendship with accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.
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Dershowitz could prove a controversial addition, however, given his prior work for clients like alleged sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, who committed suicide in a federal jail over the summer while awaiting trial.
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Jane Doe claimed in the lawsuit that she was fooled by the sex trafficker who messaged her on Facebook in 2012 because he appeared to know several of her real-life friends.
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In one play a trafficker, wearing a striped shirt, tried to entice a Rohingya refugee to go with him with the play ending with a song warning about the dangers of human trafficking.
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Before her journey through Niger to Libya, a spiritual priest practicing a form of black magic known in Nigeria as "juju" had forced her to swear an oath of obedience to her trafficker.
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Alex Acosta is out as President Donald Trump's labor secretary amid intense scrutiny and criticism over his handling of charges against billionaire and accused sexual trafficker Jeffrey Epstein more than a decade ago.
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If Mexico agrees to extradite the notorious drug trafficker known as El Chapo to the United States, he would be tried in federal court in Brooklyn, a law enforcement official said on Wednesday.
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He successfully pushed Bill Clinton to commute the sentence of Carlos Vignali, a cocaine trafficker serving a 15-year federal sentence, at the behest of Vignali's father, who donated nearly $14,000 to Becerra.
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Earlier this month, Taurus confirmed a Reuters report of charges against two former executives who allegedly sold weapons to a known Yemeni arms trafficker accused of funneling them into his country's civil war.
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Accused child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein is worth more than $500 million, federal prosecutors said Friday in a court filing that urged a judge to deny Epstein's bid to be released on bail.
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He entrusted negotiations to his vice-president, Tareck El Aissami—a man financiers in New York cannot do business with because the United States says he is a drug trafficker (which he denies).
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This is our reality," one anonymous drug trafficker told the AP."A pair of flip-flops alongside a stream of blood from a homicide victim in Seropedica, in greater Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
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Hundreds arrive undocumented every day, often crossing the 4,000 km (2,500 mile)border with a trafficker or "agent" who preys on poor, rural communities with promises of good jobs and a better life.
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"There's no money except from my pocket," said the 65-year-old, who has had an armed bodyguard since one trafficker came to the shelter demanding to see the woman he had exploited.
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The drug trafficker opened the gate and a man delivered another another 11 pounds of crystal meth produced in a laboratory in Sinaloa, which he usually buys for less than $500 per kilo.
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The actor slimmed down for his role in 2014's A Walk Among the Tombstones, in which he played a drug trafficker desperate to find the men who kidnapped and killed his wife.
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Over the course of eight months, she attended support groups, found a job, and tried to stay safe from her trafficker, who managed to threaten her life even while he was in jail.
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Attorney General Bill Barr is making some changes at the Manhattan jail where Jeffrey Epstein, the accused child sex trafficker, died in an apparent suicide after he was left alone in his cell.
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The top story on the list, "Suspected Human Trafficker, Child Predator May Be In Our Area," is a five-sentence local news story about a Texas man wanted on kidnapping and other charges.
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Write the code, wait for Linda to flag down an FBI agent to come over to extract some iMessages belonging to a drug trafficker, some child pornographer's photos, some correspondence between suspected terrorists.
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In general, if our youth are in homes and the trafficker knows that these children are being monitored and supported and they have people watching and helping them, they're going to stay away.
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The intelligence report also includes HSBC bank statements of accounts tied to Mr. El Aissami's brother, Feraz, that totaled nearly $45 million — money it says was linked to Mr. Makled, the drug trafficker.
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In 2011, Mr. Bernal was designated by the Treasury Department as a narcotics trafficker for his association with a Colombian rebel group, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, the department said.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Britain's Prince Andrew has declined to cooperate with a U.S. investigation into possible co-conspirators of deceased financier and accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, a U.S. prosecutor said on Monday.
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Attorney General Bill Bar has ordered the removal of acting director of the Bureau of Prisons Hugh Hurwitz following the suicide of alleged sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein in the Manhattan Metropolitan Correctional Center.
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Washington (CNN)The Justice Department's inspector general is opening an investigation into the circumstances surrounding the death of multimillionaire financier and accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, Attorney General William Barr announced on Saturday.
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Durazo's comments followed an earlier statement that did not fully clarify whether the accused drug trafficker, Ovidio Guzman, was still in custody, following hours of intense gunbattles in the northern city of Culiacan.
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As recently as 2018, the federal government had investigated whether Epstein — as a registered sex offender and accused human trafficker — jetted off to those island estates explicity so he could abuse young girls.
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Earlier in the week, the company scored a victory when a U.S. magistrate judge ruled in Apple's favor in a similar case involving the phone of a convicted drug trafficker in New York.
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The M.I.T. Media Lab attempted to conceal the role the late financier and accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein played in fundraising for the institution, according to a new report from the New Yorker.
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All too often, a Rohingya woman is fated to be passed, like chattel, from man to man — father to husband, soldier to sex trafficker — even in the supposed safety of the refugee camp.
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"But if there is a drug trafficker or someone who poses a threat or harm to our families here in this country, absolutely, we should be able to criminally prosecute them," O'Rourke later added.
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Saved at the border During CNN's trip to the border, the government called and told us the police had just rescued five girls as they were about to cross the border with a trafficker.
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Accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein is on a suicide watch after the wealthy financier was found mysteriously injured in his cell in a federal jail in New York City, WNBC-TV reported Wednesday night.
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While shocking stories of abuse and terror haunt us into caring about this issue, there is a persistent lack of understanding about what happens beyond a "happy ending" moment when someone escapes their trafficker.
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Typically, 60% of the profit was routed to a trafficker to pay down the bondage debt, while the rest of the money would be retained by the "house boss" who owned the prostitution facility.
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MEXICO CITY — Joaquín Guzmán Loera, the convicted drug trafficker known as El Chapo, who twice pulled off brazen jailbreaks, was transferred to a prison in northern Mexico near the border with Texas early Saturday.
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The leaders of the House Judiciary Committee on Monday sent 23 questions to the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) about the death in federal custody of accused sex trafficker and disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein.
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On the other side of the packed courtroom sat two couples who'd arrived in the predawn hours to witness the long-awaited trial of the man alleged to be the world's biggest drug trafficker.
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I first heard about Enotiades while reporting on a story about a D.E.A. sting conducted in Liberia in 2011, which culminated in the arrests of, among others, a Nigerian trafficker and a Russian pilot.
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Morales will soon be term-limited out; for the presidential election next month, his party has put forward a new candidate, Estuardo Galdámez, who recently posed for a photograph with a convicted drug trafficker.
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New York (CNN)A medical examiner on Sunday performed an autopsy on the body of accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, who died of an apparent suicide over the weekend while in custody, officials said.
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On the 38th day of the sensational New York trial of a man long considered to be the world's biggest trafficker, defense attorney Jeffrey Lichtman delivered a closing argument laced with humor and sarcasm.
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"An armored truck drives up on the main street, leaves a sniper here, the sniper climbs on top of the cable car and he stays there to see if he can hit a trafficker."
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Federal prosecutors have found surveillance video of the area around the cell of accused child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein on the day of his first jailhouse suicide attempt, according to a new court filing.
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"(The wall) is the perfect advertising campaign for a human trafficker, and now, with the election of Trump, that has magnified, and we're already seeing - incredibly - a rise in the flow of migrants," she said.
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MEXICO CITY — Actor Sean Penn dismissed criticism of his interview with Mexican drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman in a supposedly secret meeting that authorities say helped them track down the world's most-wanted trafficker.
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Rosenthal also received money from a drug trafficker in the form of an investment in a soccer club he controlled, C.D. Marathón, and tried to launder drug proceeds through U.S. real estate transactions, prosecutors said.
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In the past, most of the previous cases brought under the exception have been against gun dealers that negligently entrusted the gun to someone they should have known was either dangerous or a gun trafficker.
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An expired passport found in a locked safe in accused child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein's Manhattan mansion — which featured Epstein's photo but a different name — was used multiple times in the 1980s, prosecutors said Wednesday.
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He started out as a small-time trafficker and worked his way up to the top of the food chain, and that ascent would not have been possible without a series of very unlikely events.
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NEW YORK (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - A confessed U.S. sex trafficker was sentenced to 15 years in prison on Wednesday for recruiting young girls online and prostituting them to older men, authorities in New York said.
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Asmar was charged following what prosecutors called a two-year sting operation in which he and a Lebanese businesswoman, Iman Kobeissi, had meetings with an undercover U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration agent posing as a trafficker.
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Although their songs were about alien abductions, befriending a notorious drug trafficker, and the hazards of drug abuse featuring George Foreman quotes, Super Furry Animals somehow found themselves smack dab in the thriving Britpop movement.
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The woman alleged to have been a procurer for accused child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein was reportedly a guest in 2018 at an exclusive literary retreat hosted by Jeff Bezos, the CEO of Amazon. Vice.
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Bolton told British Prime Minister Boris Johnson that Trump wants to see a successful British exit from the EU. (Reuters) FBI agents searched the Virgin Islands residence of Jeffrey Epstein, an accused child sex trafficker.
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White House adviser Kellyanne Conway downplayed President Donald Trump retweeting an unsubstantiated conspiracy theory about the death of accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein — posted just hours after he was found dead of an apparent suicide.
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If Congress does not act soon to rule that the CALEA act applies to extremely strong encryption inserted into Apple phones, every terrorist, drug dealer, and human trafficker with half a brain will get one.
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"I wanted them to know how I felt with the things they'd do to me, what my trafficker did to me if I didn't get enough money from them," she told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.
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Jorge Cifuentes Villa, a Colombian trafficker who also shipped cocaine to Mr. Guzmán, recently testified that, during his career, he laundered up to $15 million in drug-trade profits through a crooked debit card company.
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The feds were apparently investigating whether Jeffrey Epstein, an accused sex trafficker, was taking young girls who appeared to be 11 or 12 onto his private jet as recently as last year, new documents show.
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New York (CNN)Jailed multimillionaire financier and accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein has died by suicide, two law enforcement sources said Saturday, one day after a court unsealed new details of the claims against him.
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New Orleans (CNN)Attorney General William Barr said investigators are learning of "serious irregularities" at the New York jail where accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein was found dead of an apparent suicide over the weekend.
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He raped the woman — a drug trafficker from the Dominican Republic — on several occasions, prosecutors said, including "one last time," before her sentence ended and she was handed over to the immigration authorities for deportation.
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After a disastrous interview with the BBC, which focused on his friendship with late accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein and allegations of assaulting underage girls, Prince Andrew has reportedly been kicked out of Buckingham Palace.
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Colombian trafficker Henry Carrillo-Ramirez, who pleaded guilty to drug trafficking charges in a US federal court in early November, moved Colombian cocaine to the island of Margarita, about 25 miles northeast of mainland Venezuela.
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Apple has argued in a separate but similar case involving the phone of a convicted drug trafficker that the government's requests that it help unlock the device did constitute an undue burden on the company.
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Aponte defected to the United States in 2012 after being removed from office by the Chávez-controlled National Assembly for "infringing against public ethics and administrative morals" and alleged links to drug trafficker Walid Makled.
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LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - A celebrity rapper and convicted human trafficker who forced women and a child into sex work across Europe has left a hit Bulgarian reality TV show after an outcry from campaign groups.
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Cover: Lucero Guadalupe Sanchez Lopez, a deputy of Mexico's National Action Party (PAN) in the state of Sinaloa, denied her links with the drug trafficker Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán at a press conference in June 2015.
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The Mexican-American drug trafficker who rose through the cartel ranks in Mexico and became known as "La Barbie" declared himself guilty of conspiracy to distribute cocaine and money laundering in US federal court on Wednesday.
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That's when Ng Sik-ho, a wily Hong Kong drug trafficker known as Limpy Ho, was sentenced to 30 years in prison for smuggling more than 20 tonnes of opium and morphine, according to court records.
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Jeffrey Epstein's death was ruled a suicide by hanging, and Attorney General William Barr said Wednesday that he has no reason to doubt it — despite "irregularities" at the jail where the accused child sex trafficker died.
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Even before Joaquín Guzmán Loera, the infamous drug trafficker known as El Chapo, tunneled out of Mexico's most secure prison over the summer, the Mexican government had begun rebuilding its strained relationship with the United States.
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Under a vanity cabinet, they found several kilos of heroin belonging to an alleged drug trafficker from Mexico named Joel Diaz-Fernandez, according to a factual proffer statement recently filed by prosecutors in Miami federal court.
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Again, it goes back to consent: People who are being trafficked didn't consent to being moved, or initially consented but were then manipulated by the trafficker, according to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime.
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Similarly, on the 108th night "Natalie" was missing, her Backpage ad was targeted in a sting set up by the Seattle Vice Squad, which led to her rescue and a 26 year sentence for her trafficker.
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The mysterious circumstances surrounding the death by suicide of accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein while in federal custody have infuriated the Attorney General, incited the president to spread a baseless conspiracy theory, and intrigued the public.
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Taghinia paid a human trafficker to take him to the Australian territory of Christmas Island, just as the country was tightening its maritime borders in response to a rise in the asylum seekers arriving by boat.
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"There is absolutely no credible evidence to support the allegations made by an admitted mass murderer and a convicted drug trafficker," Mr. Bieber said, adding that the former president had "absolutely no" relationship with the Cachiros.
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Twenty-nine men and women, including Chow, were named in the initial charging documents—a lurid 137-page affidavit that included the now-convicted former State Senator Leland Yee's apparent aspirations as an international arms trafficker.
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Take Allison Mack, alleged sex trafficker and NXIVM higher-up, whose involvement in the branding and forced labor of other women treads the irreconcilable line between victimhood and perpetrator that is often evoked by female criminals.
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It said Mr. El Aissami oversaw or partly owned narcotics shipments weighing more than a ton, managed an international network of businesses to help launder profits and forged an alliance with Mr. Makled, the drug trafficker.
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The defense attorney pointed to the recent testimony of fellow trafficker Alex Cifuentes, who was a secretary for Guzmán and spent two years living with him in the mountains of El Chapo's home state of Sinaloa.
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NICK S, BRISTOLFormer international cocaine trafficker In the mid 1990s, black dealers dominated the crack scene in London and Bristol—they didn't allow anyone else to sell it, and they have maintained control over the market.
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" In a statement to PEOPLE on Thursday, the McCain Institute, where McCain is the board of trustees, said she "was only thinking about the possible ramifications of a criminal act not the color of the possible trafficker.
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The alleged trafficker was captured on Saturday in a restaurant in the Colombian city of Medellin and will be turned over to Peruvian authorities, who have a $150,000 reward for information leading to his capture, Villegas added.
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While many children are unaccompanied, others arrive in Europe with an adult who may be an abusive relative, a smuggler or trafficker, said researcher Mónica Gutiérrez, who authored the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) report.
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One trafficker-turned-undercover agent, Carlos Sagastume, was paid roughly $9 million for participating in at least 150 stings on behalf of the DEA during a 15-year period, often posing as a member of the FARC.
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WASHINGTON — In 1995, a federal grand jury in San Diego charged a little-known Mexican drug trafficker named Joaquín Guzmán Loera and 22 underlings with creating a cocaine ring that stretched from Southern California to New Jersey.
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Jeffrey Epstein has a ton of cash on hand — but the accused child sex trafficker has even more more money tied up in hedge funds, private equity plays and real estate, a newly unsealed court document reveals.
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The opposition Democratic Party head Lulzim Basha said his departure was "a milestone in their battle to clean politics of crime" since Xhafaj was "the only interior minister in Europe with a drug trafficker for a brother".
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Yakutumba formed a militia bearing his name in 2007 and established himself as a warlord, gold smuggler and arms trafficker in South Kivu's Fizi territory, but looks to be trying to raise an insurrection with nationwide support.
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The U.S. Bureau of Prisons also placed two staffers at the Metropolitan Correctional Center who had been assigned to Epstein's cell unit on administrative leave as probes into the death of the accused child sex trafficker continue.
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Rolando Asuncion, chief of the Philippines' corrections bureau, said a drug trafficker was stabbed to death in the brawl, and one of the three wounded men, kidnapper Jaybee Sebastian, had been scheduled to give evidence next week.
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The New York Times reported that late, accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein spent his final days trying to use his wealth to manipulate his circumstances inside the Metropolitan Correctional Center, leading up to his death by suicide.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - A U.S. judge sentenced a leading Kenyan drug trafficker, Baktash Akasha, to 25 years in prison on Friday after he pleaded guilty last year to conspiracy to import heroin and methamphetamine and other crimes.
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After getting his bearings from scary friends like Lance Alvis, a drug trafficker who had his Albuquerque rivals nailed up on crosses ("Just like Jesus"), Barr heads for the Colorado backcountry, where the plot really takes off.
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The January 8 recapture of Mexican drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzmán served as a boost for the governments of Mexico and the United States, which have sought for years to bring the powerful trafficker to justice.
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Poverty means the chance of work, wherever it might be, is too good to turn down, engendering desperation on the part of a girl or her family, and opportunity on the side of a trafficker or madam.
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CHENNAI, India (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Campaigners hailed new hope for child rights on Thursday after a trafficker who tricked five Indian boys into menial work with the promise of better schooling was awarded a rare life sentence.
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Washington (CNN)It is no longer surprising when President Donald Trump fuels a conspiracy theory online, as he did over the weekend with regard to the apparent suicide of multimillionaire financier and accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.
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Washington (CNN)The House Judiciary Committee is investigating the circumstances surrounding the death of accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein at a New York jail, asking the Bureau of Prisons a host of questions about Epstein's apparent suicide.
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The notorious kingpin, Rafael Caro Quintero, who rose to prominence as a marijuana and cocaine trafficker in the 1980s, has evaded the authorities since he was released on a legal technicality from a Mexican prison in 2013.
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Two Manhattan federal jail guards accused of trying to cover up their failure to check on accused child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein in the hours before his suicide are now scheduled to go on trial April 20.
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Cover: U.S. Secretary of Labor Alex Acosta speaks during a press conference July 10, 2019 at the Labor Department in Washington, D.C. Secretary Acosta discussed his role in the sexual abuse case of accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.
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The suspect, identified in court as Medhanie Yehdego Mered, is accused of being a ruthless human trafficker who ran an international network that made millions of dollars by bringing migrants to Europe from Libya via deadly sea routes.
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A former Soviet military officer, Bout turned international weapons trafficker, conspiring to sell arms to FARC insurgents in Colombia and allegedly smuggling supplies to Liberian strongman Charles Taylor, the Taliban and others in conflict zones around the world.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - A U.S. appeals court on Monday denied a new trial for Viktor Bout, a Russian arms trafficker serving a 25-year prison sentence for plotting to sell missiles to people he thought were Colombian rebels.
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Incoming acting Labor Secretary Patrick Pizzella will take the helm of the department following the resignation Friday of Alex Acosta, who faced scrutiny over his role in prosecuting alleged sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein more than a decade ago.
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While the United Nations defines trafficking as an act that involves force, deception or coercion, Mexican law - which the U.N. has said should be changed - considers a person who exploits someone else a trafficker, even if its consensual.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Federal prosecutors on Wednesday unveiled child pornography charges against self-help guru and accused sex trafficker Keith Raniere, just hours after a former top associate pleaded guilty to engaging in a criminal conspiracy with him.
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Trump also told reporters that he wants a "full probe" of the death of Epstein, an accused child sex trafficker, on Saturday, which conspiracy theorists have suggested — without any evidence at all — was the fault of the Clintons.
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Mexico's government on Wednesday presented dramatic footage of the moment its forces briefly captured the son of the former Sinaloa cartel kingpin Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman this month before they released the suspected trafficker to avoid a bloodbath.
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The Department of Justice (DOJ) will disclose in the next two weeks whether it will continue to pursue its bid to force Apple to unlock the iPhone of a convicted drug trafficker in Brooklyn, according to court documents.
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New documents obtained by The Wall Street Journal showcase attempts made by accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein's lawyers to get local Manhattan prosecutors on their side in 2010 in attempts to lower Epstein's New York sex offender status.
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The executors of the estate of late accused child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein on Thursday asked a judge in the U.S. Virgin Islands for approval to set up a voluntary compensation program for victims of the wealthy financier.
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Jhon Jairo Cruz Trejos, who authorities call a freelance weapons trafficker, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Naomi Reice Buchwald in Manhattan after pleading guilty in November to charges including conspiring to import cocaine into the United States.
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This isn't merely reputational: who wants to explain to a sheriff's department that the implant tracking a drug trafficker was disabled because the Emirati government was trying to compromise the same well-known journalist for the fourth time.
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Each of them was an expert in criminal defense: One had represented a New York mobster; another had worked for one of Mr. Guzmán's major rivals; the third had handled the case of a notorious trafficker in Baltimore.
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Dr. McGrath needed to find foster parents willing to take in a child who had suffered the kind of complex trauma that comes from being sexually exploited — and from being under the control of a potentially dangerous trafficker.
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They included the former drug dealer Miguel Angel Martínez, who Mr. Lichtman said had a four-gram-a-day cocaine habit; and another trafficker, Alex Cifuentes, who once worked for Pablo Escobar, the boss of Colombia's Medellin cartel.
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"There are compliance restrictions for negotiations, because the head of negotiations on the presidential committee is a designated narco-trafficker," said Siobhan Morden, a Nomura managing director who is head of the bank's Latin America fixed-income strategy.
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Taurus, the largest weapons manufacturer in Latin America, confirmed a Reuters report this month of charges against two former executives who prosecutors allege sold weapons in 2013 to a Yemeni arms trafficker who was on a U.N. sanctions list.
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The world's most powerful drug trafficker, Joaquín Guzmán Loera — better known as "El Chapo" — has been found guilty of more than 10 counts of criminal activity, including drug trafficking, money laundering, and weapons violations in the pursuit of violence.
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Of the youth in our Las Vegas data, the three most violent cases of sexual trafficking identified an intimate partner or family member as the sexual trafficker, although police rarely consider parents or foster parents traffickers in such situations.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - A Colombian drug trafficker who the U.S. government says was the ringleader of an extensive network that shipped thousands of kilograms of cocaine to the United States was sentenced on Wednesday to 20 years in prison.
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Amilcar Alexander Ardon, a former mayor and confessed killer and narco trafficker, testified before jurors in the US Southern District Court of New York in the second week of the trial of Juan Antonio "Tony" Hernandez, the president's brother.
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The accused sex trafficker was previously incarcerated at the Palm Beach County Jail for 13 months beginning in 2008, but spent much of his stint at his office after a widely criticized work-release deal brokered with the sheriff.
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"The court has recognized that this man was a human trafficker," chief prosecutor Francesco Lo Voi told reporters, adding that his office would read the court's full report on the case before deciding whether to appeal the reduced verdict.
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Del Castillo, who once played a drug trafficker in a well-known Mexican TV soap, revealed soon after the article was published that the meeting came about because Guzman's lawyers had reached out to her about a possible movie.
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While Mr. Rodriguez had little experience or formal education, he had been recommended by one of his other clients: Jorge Cifuentes Villa, a veteran trafficker who worked with Mr. Guzmán making cocaine deals with left-wing guerrillas in Colombia.
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This idyllic image of the crime lord on the run was described on Monday at Mr. Guzmán's drug trial in New York by Alex Cifuentes Villa, a Colombian trafficker who once served as his secretary and close personal aide.
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Or am I going to buy a 10-pack if I'm a would-be trafficker who wants to start a little factory of my own and sell these at a markup to people who can't pass a background check?
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Under this law, a sex trafficker who uses force, fraud or coercion, or who prostitutes a victim under the age of 14, will receive a mandatory minimum term of 15 years in prison and may receive a life sentence.
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Contributing Opinion Writer MEXICO CITY — An iconic photo from 1993 shows Colombian police officers smiling as they crouch over the bullet-ridden corpse of Pablo Escobar, who Forbes magazine had claimed was the richest drug trafficker on the planet.
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The memorandum outlined four occasions in which an accused Honduran drug trafficker, who was also an official in the president's National Party, said he had paid bribes to or for President Hernández and Mr. Lobo in exchange for protection.
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Amilcar Alexander Ardon, a former mayor and confessed killer and narco trafficker, testified before jurors in the U.S. Southern District Court of New York in the second week of the trial of Juan Antonio "Tony" Hernandez, the president's brother.
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Musk's False and Defamatory Accusations falsely accused Mr. Unsworth of being a (1) a pedophile ,(2)a child rapist, (3) a child sex-trafficker,(123) the husband of a 12-year old child bride,and (5) a liar. 117.
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Video surveillance footage of the jailhouse area outside of accused child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein's cell from the time of his first reported suicide effort in July is now missing, a lawyer for Epstein's former cellmate said Wednesday night.
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A Venezuelan island in the Caribbean that is a popular tourist destination was used by a Colombian trafficker to move drugs to the United States and Europe, in another example of Venezuela&aposs coastal islands serving as transshipment points.
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The lawsuit alleges that at one point following an argument with her mother, the trafficker offered to console her, but after picking her up from her home he beat and raped her and took pictures that were posted on Backpage.com.
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With its own communications network, and surveillance posts on the surrounding peaks, the rustic redoubt had everything the drug boss needed, but was hardly befitting of a mega-rich drug trafficker who was once on the Forbes list of billionaires.
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PANAMA CITY (Reuters) - Panamanian former dictator, CIA spy and convicted cocaine trafficker Manuel Noriega was in a coma on Tuesday after suffering a hemorrhage from an operation to remove a benign brain tumor, representatives for the 83-year-old said.
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Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán, the drug kingpin who violently rose to lead the infamous Sinaloa Cartel and at one point was named by the US as the "world's most powerful drug trafficker," was convicted Tuesday in a federal court in Brooklyn.
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In our subsample of youth under the age of 18 who were, at the time of interview, engaged in survival sex, 33 individuals — 24% —had a pimp or trafficker, liberally defined as someone with whom the respondent shared their earnings.
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" For context, Elaine Shannon provides a picture of the quintessential "Sinaloa drug trafficker" in her book Desperados: "They traveled around Guadalajara with platoons of guards armed with automatic weapons, and with suitcases full of cash they bought whatever caught their fancy.
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Though it was all a performance—Paul, the evil trafficker who's trying to make money and have a good time, is actually an Atlanta-based actor named Matt Lewis—I still felt heavy from the toil of witnessing young people enslaved.
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Images showing the fancy Paraguayan prison accommodation of Brazilian drug trafficker Jarvis Chimenes Pavao have emerged in local news reports, showing a spacious, three-room suite complete with his own library, a flat screen TV, and a collection of DVDs.
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If confirmed, it would be a huge blow to Italy and Britain, which had combined forces to track down alleged trafficker Medhane Yehdego Mered and had hailed his deportation from Sudan as a rare victory in the fight against people smuggling.
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NEW YORK, Nov 21 (Reuters) - A U.S. appeals court on Monday denied a new trial for Viktor Bout, a Russian arms trafficker serving a 25-year prison sentence for plotting to sell missiles to people he thought were Colombian rebels.
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MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexico's government on Wednesday showed dramatic video footage of the moment its forces briefly captured a son of kingpin Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman this month before they were ordered to release the suspected trafficker to avoid a bloodbath.
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The New York City Fire Department (FDNY) said it reviewed a 22019chan post purporting to be from a first responder detailing the death of accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein more than 30 minutes before it was made public, BuzzFeed News reported.
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District Court Judge Richard Berman announced last week that the federal criminal case against late financier and accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein would not be closed until after Tuesday's hearing to give victims a chance to speak about their experiences.
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New York (CNN)The former Mexican drug trafficker greeted alleged kingpin Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman with a nod and a smile on Thursday before revealing that the Sinaloa cartel maintained a corruption budget of more than $1003 million per month.
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In the South Columbo region of Dehiwala, where Sri Lanka's largest concentration of Muslims resides, a major drug trafficker named Dawood Ibrahim Kaskar reportedly has set up a distribution hub that has brought record-breaking quantities of heroin into the country.
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The New York Times reports that accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein tied his jail bed sheet around his neck and used it to hang himself, breaking several bones in the process, while in federal custody at the Metropolitan Correctional Center.
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Last week, after he commuted the sentence of a nonviolent drug trafficker who had the backing of reality show doyenne Kim Kardashian West, Trump invited NFL players to offer their own suggestions as to who he should let out of jail.
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Jeffrey Epstein, the accused child trafficker and registered sex offender, was alone in his Manhattan jail cell, not on suicide watch or receiving regular check-ins, when he died in an apparent suicide on Saturday, the New York Times reported Sunday.
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The Washington Post reported on Thursday, citing two anonymous people familiar with the findings, that the convicted sexual offender and alleged sex trafficker had multiple broken bones in his neck, including the hyoid bone, which is near the Adam's apple.
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RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Brazilian prosecutors said on Tuesday they had charged Forjas Taurus SA, Latin America's largest gun maker, in May for dealing with a known Yemeni arms trafficker in violation of international sanctions, prompting the company's shares to plunge.
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Judge Scheindlin, who was appointed in 1994 by President Bill Clinton, presided in major trials, including that of Viktor Bout, a Russian arms trafficker convicted in 2011 of conspiring to kill Americans, whom she sentenced to 25 years in prison.
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Corea Diaz, who is known as "Reaper," was arraigned on three counts of operating as a major trafficker and five counts of conspiracy in the second degree before Acting Supreme Court Justice Patricia Harrington in a Mineola, New York, courtroom.
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MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Hollywood star Sean Penn lied when he reported that Mexican kingpin Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman told him he is the world's foremost drugs trafficker, and he should be called to testify, one of Guzman's lawyers said on Wednesday.
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The investigation kicked off in January of last year when an Afghan local working as a paid DEA confidential source since 2014 called Manaf at the direction of DEA agents, and told him how to contact a New York-based trafficker.
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On cross-examination Tuesday morning, Mr. Guzmán's lawyers questioned her credibility, suggesting that it was not believable that the world-famous leader of the Sinaloa drug cartel had turned to a "20-something, non-narco trafficker" to buy his marijuana.
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Then came two chilling murders: A lawyer who represented drug king pins was assassinated as she stepped out of a meeting, and a young woman was stabbed to death with a dinner knife while visiting a drug trafficker in prison.
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Three recent arrests for illegal wildlife trafficking have received wide attention among conservationists: Feisal Mohamed Ali, charged with trafficking in ivory in Kenya; Abdurahman Mohammed Sheikh, another alleged ivory trafficker in Kenya; and Yang Fenglan, Tanzania's so-called queen of ivory.
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The accused sex trafficker was put on suicide watch last month, after he was found in his Manhattan jail cell with marks on his neck, a law enforcement source and a source familiar with the incident told CNN at the time.
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Berkeley Heights, New Jersey (CNN)President Donald Trump on Saturday promoted a conspiracy theory linking the Clinton family to the death of multimillionaire and accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, the latest instance of Trump propagating baseless conspiracy theories and falsehoods.
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Like Jeffrey Epstein, the deceased sex trafficker and child rapist, I was once in John Brockman's circle of—well, he unfailingly called us "scientists," though many in the group, a salon known as Edge, have zero training in hard science.
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To the special agents assigned to Homeland Security Investigations, a division of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, mules are the first link of a knotted chain that may or may not lead to the agents' ultimate prize: a top drug trafficker.
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Word of the project's troubles comes as the Media Lab's attempts to cover up its extensive financial ties to late financier and alleged sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein have seriously damaged its credibility and led to resignation of its director, Joichi Ito.
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Earlier this week, the famed lawyer said he was kept off a panel of constitutional scholars who testified before the House Judiciary Committee last week because of the accusation that he sexually assaulted a victim of sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.
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It was not immediately clear whether the current detention is also related to this previous case that reportedly involved a drug trafficker linked to one of Sao Paulo's most dangerous criminal gangs, the PCC, or First Command of the Capital.
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The rally took place days after a German paper published leaked tapes showing how an accused drug trafficker in Durres told Socialist officials how he planned to coerce opposition backers to vote for them and help a friend become a lawmaker.
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Screenshot: 4ChanOver half an hour before ABC News first reported that sex offender and accused human trafficker Jeffrey Epstein had been found unresponsive in his Manhattan prison cell, alleged details of his death appeared on anonymous message board 4Chan, Buzzfeed reported.
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And the President is a master of distraction -- the tumult he stirred all day meant that the focus shifted from his Labor Secretary Alex Acosta's struggles to explain a non-prosecution agreement he approved a decade ago for accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.
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Bone argued that although Brown has a high IQ, she functions at the cognitive level of a 603-year-old as a result of her fetal alcohol spectrum disorder, traumatic and violent past, and her abusive relationship with her trafficker Cut Throat.
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The diminutive, clean-shaven trafficker, described by a federal official as "the most notorious criminal of modern time," was not handcuffed and wore a dark blue short-sleeved shirt and pants with white sneakers during his brief appearance in a packed courtroom.
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In 2013, he had to hear one of the cases, it was a case about a human trafficker that had been aided and abetted by a parent in the United States who had already been deported once out of the United States.
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Unsworth said he is not a pedophile, child rapist, child sex trafficker, husband of a 12-year-old bride, or liar, and that the defamatory statements "were manufactured out of whole cloth by Musk" because of the disagreement over the mini-submarine.
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"Investigations need evidence to connect the dots on how the trafficker took a girl from a village and sold her to a city brothel," said Pompi Banerjee, program manager at Sanjog charity that works with trafficking survivors and is supporting the study.
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After reports said prosecutors would drop charges against the officers allegedly involved in Freddie Gray's death in police custody in Baltimore, Breitbart ran the headline, "Report: Prosecutors Drop All Charges in Heroin Trafficker Freddie Gray Case" — again, describing the victim as a criminal.
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Though published in Turkey in 2013, Hakan Gunday's first-person story of a tormented trafficker is set in the past: after his liberation from the trade, the narrator hears news of the Taliban's demolition of the Bamiyan Buddha statues in March 2001.
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Marquez, 38, along with a popular singer known as Julion Alvarez and nearly two dozen other Mexican nationals, is accused of financial ties with Raul Flores Hernandez, a suspected drug trafficker with links to the Sinaloa cartel and the Jalisco New Generation gang.
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Del Castillo has not commented, but Penn wrote in Rolling Stone that Guzman was interested in having a movie made of his life and wanted del Castillo, who had portrayed a drug trafficker in a Mexican television series, involved in the project.
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The man American authorities call "the most notorious drug trafficker in the world" is being tried in a New York court on charges related to running a criminal enterprise and could spend the rest of his life in an American prison if convicted.
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New York Times columnist James Stewart wrote in a column Monday he had visited Jeffrey Epstein at his mansion in Manhattan a year ago, where the alleged sex trafficker told him he was helping Elon Musk find a new chairman for Tesla.
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A newly surfaced video reveals Trump happily partying in November of that year at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida with Epstein, a wealthy financier who since then has become both a registered sex offender and an accused child sex trafficker.
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In March an Irish judge refused a routine request under the European Arrest Warrant (EAW) to surrender Artur Celmer, a suspected drug-trafficker, to authorities in his native Poland, because of what she called PiS's "deliberate, calculated and provocative" assault on judicial independence.
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CHENNAI, India (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - A teenager, who was kidnapped and sold into prostitution in India for six years, has fled her West Bengal home because her trafficker threatened to kill her, in a case illustrating a growing problem for justice campaigners.
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And he returned to some of his most provocative red meat rhetoric on Thursday, jokingly referring to those who came to the U.S. illegally as "undocumented Democrats" and blasting actor Sean Penn for his recent, controversial interview with Mexican drug trafficker El Chapo.
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When they bring him down, he appears unremorseful, insisting the girls came to Delhi of their own free will Outside the police station, CNN Freedom Project confronts the trafficker with accusations that he was exploiting the girls "They were not bought" he says.
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SAO PAULO, Sept 8 (Reuters) - Forjas Taurus SA, Latin America's largest gun maker, told Brazil's securities regulator on Thursday it had not notified investors about an alleged sale to a known Yemeni arms trafficker because the company was not accused in the case.
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It is the smugglers who are the most common traffickers in drugs and humans and who sexually abuse the undocumented migrants they bring into the U.S. Drug smugglers have been using tunnels since 1989 when Mexico's notorious trafficker "El Chapo" pioneered the method.
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"Let's expand the asylum capacity through the region so we can help them as soon as possible on that journey, so they're not forced to make decisions like using a smuggler, using a trafficker, sending kids alone to the border," Nielsen said.
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And adds, that undocumented parents are now asking a distant relative or family friends -- who are U.S. citizens or legal residents -- to sponsor their children, and that could put a child in the hands of a human trafficker or expose the child exploitation.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads Yang Fenglan, 69, a Chinese trafficker known as the "ivory queen" has been sentenced to 15 years in prison by a Tanzanian court for smuggling 860 pieces of ivory worth $5.6 million between 2000 and 2004.
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Howard Marks, an Oxford-educated drug trafficker who at his peak in the 21995s controlled a substantial fraction of the world's hashish and marijuana trade, and who became a best-selling author after his release from an American prison, died on Sunday.
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Four days after alleged sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein's death in federal custody, a woman alleging abuse by the late financier sued his estate under a New York law that suspends the statute of limitations for civil claims against sex crimes, according to Reuters.
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MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - A judge in Mexico ordered on Thursday that bank accounts linked to businesses owned by soccer star Rafa Marquez be unfrozen, following a designation in August by the U.S. government that the sportsman was linked to a suspected drug trafficker.
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The government said Mr. Le tried to buy lethal doses of ricin, which has no known antidote, from an undercover F.B.I. employee who was posing as a trafficker in illicit materials on a secret part of the Internet known as the dark web.
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But when an associate—who was also a confidential source for the DEA—offered contact information for a man Manaf was led to believe was an international drug trafficker based in New York City, he made a much bigger play, prosecutors said.
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Over the next seven months, the undercover agent posing as the trafficker befriended Manaf, who confided many secrets about his involvement in heroin trafficking in Asia and the Middle East, as well as his good standing with the Taliban, the complaint states.
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This summer, the government filed a D.E.A. search warrant application showing that in 2013, Mr. Rivera secretly recorded a conversation with another Honduran trafficker who claimed to have made a $250,000 payment intended for Juan Orlando Hernández, who later became Honduras's president.
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Watch "Cashing in on 'El Chapo'" The January 8 recapture of Mexican drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzmán served as a boost for the governments of Mexico and the United States, which have sought for years to bring the powerful trafficker to justice.
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She ends up in Spain, where she spends time working in a brothel, lands in jail for dealing drugs and then gains money and fame as a drug trafficker after her release, all while evading the many men intent on killing her.
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He gave the jury an insider's view of well-known crimes in Mexico, including the murder of a Roman Catholic cardinal, a blood bath in a Puerto Vallarta nightclub and the assassination of a competing trafficker, who was shot in the neck.
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Some of Epstein's accusers on Monday moved toward pursuing his alleged co-conspirators in a civil case: they asked a federal judge to unwind a nonprosecution agreement the alleged sex trafficker reached with Florida prosecutors a decade ago that immunized his associates.
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Trump's shameful retweet "President Donald Trump on Saturday promoted a conspiracy theory linking the Clinton family to the death of multimillionaire and accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, the latest instance of Trump propagating baseless conspiracy theories and falsehoods," Jeremy Diamond reported on CNN.com.
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White-collar defendants can often point to a life largely free from criminal conduct and can generate letters from family and friends attesting to their generosity and good works — something that is not likely to come up in sentencing a drug trafficker.
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In April 2018, the Treasury Department announced that it was sanctioning Zhang Jian, his company and four of his family members as Significant Foreign Narcotics Traffickers under the Kingpin Act — the first time an accused fentanyl trafficker had been designated a kingpin.
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LIMA, Peru — President Nicolás Maduro of Venezuela on Tuesday defended his second-in-command, who has been sanctioned by the United States over allegations that he is a narcotics trafficker, and said he would demand a public apology from the American government.
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Armas was suspended from his role as head of El Pozo, the US-style prison located in Santa Barbara department bordering Guatemala, as part of an investigation into the October 26 murder of drug trafficker Nery Orlando López, according to La Prensa.
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The discoveries have fanned speculation, rational or not, that the unattached feet could be the work of a tsunami, a human trafficker, a Mafia hit man, a deranged foot fetishist or a serial killer who had spread body parts out to sea.
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Two guards at a federal jail in New York City were arrested Tuesday for crimes related to their alleged failure to perform safety checks on accused child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein for up to eight hours before he was found dead in August.
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The U.K.'s Prince Andrew announced on Wednesday that he is stepping away from public royal duties as a result of the questions surrounding his friendship with the late accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein and allegations that he also abused underage girls.
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PORTO ALEGRE, Brazil (Reuters) - Brazil's Forjas Taurus SA, the largest weapons manufacturer in Latin America, sold guns to a known Yemeni arms trafficker who funneled them into his nation's civil war in violation of international sanctions, according to charges in court documents reviewed by Reuters.
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Related: After El Chapo: The World's Most Wanted Drug Lords The near-mythical trafficker once known as The Prince instead repeated several times that he no longer has any criminal relevance, and that any information to the contrary stems from informants looking to make money.
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Criminal accusations are multiplying against a suspected human trafficker in Atlanta, who authorities believe was holding multiple women against their will in an upscale home and forcing them to dance at local strip clubs — all while flaunting apparent gang ties and a lavish lifestyle online.
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"We had information that the man could be a trafficker, so he was stopped for checks, but the fact that he was coming to Portugal with a bunch of olive oil definitely reinforced our suspicions, which proved to be right," a police official said.
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For a criminal or gun trafficker, this creates a loophole: If they want easy access to a gun, they can travel for a few hours to a state with laxer laws and purchase a gun without any of the obstacles presented by Massachusetts's laws.
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Days later, nearly 400 gunmen from the Sinaloa Cartel — the group once led by Joaquín Guzmán Loera, the imprisoned drug trafficker known as El Chapo — took control of Culiacán, the state capital of Sinaloa, after government forces tried to arrest one of Mr. Guzmán's sons.
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At the time, the government's justification for separating Ms. L. and S. was that it needed to verify that Ms. L. was neither a child trafficker nor an abusive parent, though both of those things could have been ascertained quickly and without separating them.
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We can realize that the men who gave a sex trafficker the deal of the century — the men who acted like the rape of children didn't matter if it was done by someone with money — are disqualified themselves from positions of power and influence.
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Ever since alleged cult leader and sex trafficker Keith Raniere was arrested last month, the world has been trying to make sense of the seriousness of the charges against him, as well as the confusing involvement of more than one early 2000s TV crush.
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Adaura, now 24, is interviewed in the rights agency report, where she is referred to as Adaura C. She said she was forced to work as a prostitute in Libya by her trafficker who told her she owed $4,000 paid to transport her from Nigeria.
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"Vengeance," the series's final installment, debuting Sunday, July 1, on PBS (check local listings), begins with typically brutal fanfare: a burning fishing boat, a human trafficker with a cutout tongue and his cargo — three Syrian children — swapped for three upscale British tots while they're sleeping.
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"With these smaller newspapers drying up across the country, it is creating a collapse of local newspapers and local news and the kind of information (they provide) around the country," said Brown, who is known for her reporting on accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.
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Madams in Italy have their surrogates in Nigeria take the girls to a local shrine, where the juju priest performs a bonding ritual, typically involving the girl's fingernails, pubic hair, or blood, which the priest retains until she has repaid her debt to her trafficker.
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Some offer salaries of up to $560 a month - a far cry from the $70 subsistence farmers growing maize and potatoes can typically expect to earn, and a tell-tale sign that the advert is a trap laid by a trafficker, according to Amhauta.
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The sanctions, announced on Monday by the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control, described Mr. El Aissami as a "drug trafficker" and a "kingpin" who had used his past positions of power, which also included a state governorship, to move large quantities of narcotics.
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Yet Brewer said he was confident that the growing use of the Modern Slavery Act to prosecute people who force children to sell drugs would act as a deterrent – due to the risk of heavier prison sentences and stigma of being labeled as a trafficker.
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D.E.A. agents uncovered evidence that suggested the couple had used the transportation company they owned to launder money for a marijuana and cocaine trafficker in charge of a busy drug-smuggling route through Agua Prieta, Mexico, just on the other side of the border.
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As they continued to investigate "Uncle Jerry" Jacobsen, their list of other participants in the scam expanded from eight people to 53 disparate individuals, including a self-described mob associate, a convicted drug trafficker, and a Mormon father of five, his wife, and her sister.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Russian arms trafficker Viktor Bout, who is serving a 25-year prison sentence for agreeing to sell weapons to people he thought were Colombian rebels, urged a U.S. appeals court on Monday to overturn a ruling that denied him a new trial.
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US District Court Judge Brian Cogan rejected defense requests for a new trial or an evidentiary hearing to determine juror misconduct, saying a "mountain range of evidence" against the trafficker strongly countered his attorneys' claims that jurors engaged in misconduct by following media coverage during the proceedings.
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Along with a variety of other setbacks, the city has faced an uptick in localized violence since a drug trafficker escaped from a Brazilian hospital over a week ago, engaging in multiple gun battles across the city's slums, as authorities attempt to recapture him, the AP reports.
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"Today's announcements are a warning to every trafficker, every crooked doctor or pharmacist, and every drug company, every chairman and foreign national and company that puts greed before the lives and health of the American people," U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions said in an August press release.
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And he included a photo of himself from that night in his campaign video.. He sets the scene: It was "about 10 years ago" and, as a young police officer at a Halloween party, he dressed up as Demetrius "Big Meech" Flenory, a notorious drug trafficker.
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A day before Jeffrey Epstein, an accused child sex trafficker, was found mysteriously injured in his jail cell, the wealthy financier was served legal documents detailing a woman's claims that he raped her in his New York City mansion when she was just 15 years old.
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In one case, auditors found that children who had been sold and brought to the United States and forced into involuntary servitude had identified the human trafficker by name, as well as other victims, to immigration officials, but the information was not entered into agency databases.
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The long-shot effort by Jeffrey Epstein, an accused sex trafficker, to win release from jail on bail by promising to personally pay for security to monitor him got even tougher Thursday with a new federal appeals court decision, which blasted such cushy arrangements in most cases.
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BANGKOK (Reuters) - The largest ever task force assembled to fight organized crime in Asia has identified a long-time drug trafficker, a China-born Canadian national, as the suspected kingpin of a crime syndicate that police say dominates the $70 billion-a-year Asia-Pacific drug trade.
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" "If one of these American actors who have benefited from the greatness of this country, who have made money from our free enterprise system, want to go fawn all over a criminal and a drug trafficker in their interviews, they have a constitutional right to do it.
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Apple said Thursday that if the government is able to successfully break into the iPhone of one of the San Bernardino shooters, it may eliminate the need for the company to assist in a separate case involving the phone of a convicted drug trafficker in New York.
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"Traffickers are looking for girls that come in with a certain brand of shoes and a certain brand of jeans because in their communities, there's only one store ... and they only sell certain brands, and so right away a trafficker will know [that she is indigenous]".
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Local TV networks made hits like "Sin Tetas No Hay Paraiso" ("Without Breasts, There Is No Paradise") and "El Cartel de Los Sapos" ("The Cartel of the Snitches"), which was based on a book by a real Colombian trafficker who was imprisoned in the United States.
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Women who say they were raped and sexually assaulted in France by an associate of the late financier and accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein say French authorities' investigation of their allegations has stalled, prompting them to question officials' commitment to the probe, according to The Associated Press.
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Here, in advance of the trial's second half, is a brief recap of the testimony so far: · During Mr. Guzmán's early days as a young, ambitious trafficker, witnesses testified, the nascent kingpin struck up a partnership with Juan Carlos Ramírez Abadía, his first supplier of Colombian cocaine.
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Assistant U.S. Attorney Adam Fels told jurors in his opening statement on Tuesday that the evidence in the case would trace the story of Guzman's rise from a low-level marijuana trafficker to a powerful drug lord who became one of the world's most wanted fugitives.
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One trafficker who works for El Mayo in the border city of Mexicali told VICE News that last week they went from smuggling around 15 kilos of meth and heroin per week to five due to lack of supply and increased enforcement on the U.S. side.
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TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras — In a blow to President Juan Orlando Hernández of Honduras, American prosecutors on Monday announced drug charges against his younger brother, describing him as a "large-scale drug trafficker" who spent a dozen years moving cocaine shipments bound for the United States through Central America.
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The MCC, which is operated by the U.S. Bureau of Prisons, has faced scathing criticism since last August, when another high-profile inmate — accused child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein — died from what has been ruled a suicide by hanging in his cell in the Special Housing Unit.
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And then there are the stock characters: the wicked coyote, the ruthless trafficker, the bright-eyed abuelita with her folk wisdom and unshakable Catholicism, the hardworking and/or exploited housekeeper or fieldworker who is either taking jobs from Real Americans or doing jobs Real Americans won't do.
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The government of the U.S. Virgin Islands on Wednesday sued the estate of late accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, alleging the wealthy investor raped and otherwise sexually abused young women and girls — as young as 12 years old — at his secluded private island getaways in that territory.
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Computer scientist and open software advocate Richard Stallman said he has resigned from his position as a visiting scientist at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL) after describing a victim of sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein as "entirely willing" in emails sent to a department list.
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Prosecutors used all of this to trace Mr. Guzmán's 30-year rise from a young, ambitious trafficker with a knack for speedy smuggling to a billionaire narco lord with an entourage of maids and secretaries, a portfolio of vacation homes — even a ranch with a personal zoo.
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DARRELL M, EAST LONDONFormer international cocaine trafficker If you see someone who has managed to afford a car from his earnings in a week, rather than over two years, people are going to go for the job that takes them a week to get the car.
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During his investigation, Velazquez says he found an arrest record for Moreno after the 1989 shooting death of the teen and investigated a phone call in which another judge in a separate case recorded Moreno allegedly pressuring him to release a suspected arms and drug trafficker.
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If you bring a minor, you are briefly separated for a day or two, and then reunited, and then deported, but if you bring a minor and can&apost prove you&aposre related, the Feds will separate and investigate if you are a trialed trafficker or a human smuggler.
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What Chapo's attorneys did allegedly discover from scouring publicly available court records is that the original extradition request relied on testimony from witnesses who were known to be unreliable, including "an admitted and convicted corrupt former Mexican law enforcement official and narco-trafficker" who contradicted himself several times.
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Alex Cifuentes, a convicted trafficker who described himself as Guzmán's "right-hand man, his left-hand man," testified that Guzmán once paid a $100 million bribe to former Mexican president Enrique Peña Nieto, hoping that it would help the head of the Sinaloa Cartel come out of hiding.
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The six interviewed gang members led the researchers to one trafficker, a middle-aged black man who had shuttled about 80 guns to Boston over four years from business trips south, netting $800 to $1,200 a trip, which he used to pay his mortgage and buy real estate.
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A French farmer was tried in 2017 for housing migrants (though the court later ruled that his action was legitimate on the basis of "fraternity"), while a Swedish journalist was dubbed a "human trafficker" and fined for helping a 15-year-old Syrian get to Sweden in 2014.
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"As alleged in the indictment, Elorez is not only a drug trafficker, he also betrayed a veterinarian's pledge to prevent animal suffering when he used his surgical skills in a cruel scheme to smuggle heroin in the abdomens of puppies," US Attorney Richard Donoghue said at the time.
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Indeed, despite its early '90s setting, this fact-based drama about the battle against narco-trafficker Escobar is a virtual primer on U.S. political adventures abroad, in which neutralizing the bad guy has often involved terrible collateral damage and getting into bed with people who might be even worse.
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An alleged major drug trafficker known as "Reaper," who&aposs accused of being a kingpin in the brutal MS-13 gang, told a judge life in lockup is unbearable and complained about a lack of phone access and the "discrimination" he faces at a New York county jail.
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Land-owner self-defence groups, later reinforced by drug-trafficker foot-soldiers, created a national paramilitary structure which, with the complicity of some army officers, slaughtered some 3,13 UP members and visited terror upon villages seen as sympathetic to the FARC—which responded with terrorism of its own.
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Read more: How one Epstein victim was said to be recruited from Mar-a-Lago, and all the other connections between the accused sex trafficker and Trump's Palm Beach resort"If you want to curry favor with him, you spend money at his properties," Hooper told the Herald.
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Ioan Grillo Mexico City — It was a television executive's nightmare: Not only was someone threatening to sue over a TV series, but that person was reputedly the biggest drug trafficker on the planet and the head of a cartel behind a long string of mass executions and torture videos.
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Documents obtained by The Wall Street Journal show accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein's lawyers met with local Manhattan prosecutors in 2010 to try and reduce the convicted sex offender's status in New York so that he wouldn't have to register or report every 90 days to the police.
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The McCain Institute, which counts combatting human trafficking as one of its initiatives, said in a statement that McCain was only "thinking about the possible ramifications of a criminal act not the ethnicity of the possible trafficker" when she reported what she believed was a case of trafficking.
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At the briefing, Robert L. Capers, the United States attorney in Brooklyn, called the extradition of Mr. Guzmán, whose nickname means Shorty, a milestone in the pursuit of a trafficker who achieved mythic status in his homeland as a Robin Hood-like outlaw and a serial prison escapee.
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President Donald Trump — who has recently asserted that he is not a "big fan" of accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein — is seen chatting and laughing with the wealthy financier at a 1992 party at the Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida, according to footage uncovered in the NBC archives Wednesday.
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BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazil's Forjas Taurus SA, the largest weapons maker in Latin America, shipped guns to the son of a known arms trafficker in July 2015, three months after the United Nations imposed an arms embargo on his allies in Yemen's civil war, according to a U.N. report released last week.
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The "black book" of Jeffrey Epstein, a wealthy financier and now-accused child sex trafficker, is a smorgasbord of high-profile, powerful people, including Presidents Donald Trump and Bill Clinton, Britain's Prince Andrew and former Prime Minister Tony Blair, and convicted sex assailant and comedian Bill Cosby, Epstein's former neighbor.
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Kate del Castillo plays a Mexican woman who becomes the most powerful drug trafficker in Southern Spain in the Telemundo telenovela that caught the eye of the real-life drug kingpin El Chapo, and led to his secret meeting, documented in Rolling Stone, with Ms. del Castillo and Sean Penn.
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And Bishop is off on a travelogue — to a tropical prison to bump off an African warlord; Sydney, Australia, to nail a human trafficker (a lavish high-rise pool is involved); and Bulgaria to hunt an arms dealer (Tommy Lee Jones, romping in red sunglasses, a silk robe, pajamas and slippers).
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A former drug dealer named Carlos Sagastume, who played a member of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC , in a sting that led to the capture, in 2008, of the arms trafficker Viktor Bout, was given seven and a half million dollars for his work on two cases.
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But, as research by social anthropologists such as Sine Plambech has shown, many women choose to continue on as sex workers even after paying back the "debt" they owe a madam or a human trafficker, because they have seen that prostitution holds the possibility of self-employment and financial independence.
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Australia has turned back boats full of migrants and towed them out to sea; assessed their asylum claims on boats, apparently in violation of international law, before forcing them back; and has even been accused of paying a human trafficker to take his passengers back to Indonesia, where he was arrested.
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The rally took place days after a German newspaper published leaked tapes showing how an accused drug trafficker in Durres, western Albania, told Socialist Party officials that he planned to coerce opposition backers to vote for their party and that he would help a friend become a lawmaker, Reuters reported.
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Before she is spirited off to Europe, the bond between a victim and her trafficker is often sealed with a voodoo ritual in which she surrenders pieces of clothing, fingernails and body hair; these fragments may be combined with drops of blood into a mixture which the victim is made to drink.
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Brown broke the behind-the-scenes story of the disgraceful plea deal that Alexander AcostaAlex Alexander AcostaThree more Epstein accusers sue estate Barr removes prisons chief after Epstein death Feds face mounting pressure over Epstein's death MORE, then the U.S. attorney in Miami, secretly negotiated with attorneys for sex-ring trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.
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"The jury will no doubt be scared and/or angry about having to commute to the trial, hear testimony in a confined box, and deliberate in an even more confined space," Alan Nelson, an attorney for the alleged sex trafficker, wrote to the court on Saturday arguing that the trial should be adjourned.
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"The court said I am not a criminal or a drug trafficker, and am not part of a criminal group, but found me guilty of abuse of office because I have used the same car with some cousins," Tahiri told reporters after the verdict, which was issued six hours later than scheduled.
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But instead of using his stable of confidential informants to bring down the gangs, the authorities said, Mr. Irizarry worked with a Colombian drug trafficker to launder money seized from undercover drug operations and used the cash to buy a Tiffany diamond ring, a $135,000 Land Rover and a home in Cartagena.
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In the 1990s, Ludwig (Tarzan) Fainberg, a Russian mobster and Miami strip club owner; Juan Almeida, a Cuban luxury car dealer; and Nelson (Tony) Yester, an international drug trafficker, were accused of combining their skills to sell a Soviet submarine to a Colombian cartel to distribute cocaine in the former Soviet Union and North America.
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Although this is not the first case of a trafficker using puppies as drug mules, it seemed fitting that two floors above the courtroom where Mr. Elorez was sentenced, jurors were deliberating the fate of Joaquín Guzmán Loera, the Mexican drug kingpin known as El Chapo, who has gained notoriety for his novel smuggling techniques.
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New York (CNN)Lawyers for Jeffrey Epstein proposed a bail package on Thursday that would allow the multimillionaire alleged sex trafficker to remain out of jail pending trial and live instead in home detention at his Upper East Side mansion, one of the largest residences in Manhattan and valued at $77 million, according to court documents.
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She and her two young children Nataly and Héctor were all murdered by a Venezuelan drug trafficker to get at El Guero, who was sent the severed head of his wife in a box; In the cupola of their small mausoleum, Guadalupe and her children are depicted in a painting as angels seated in heaven (left)
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Read more:Trump's Labor secretary refuses to resign after criticism of the lenient plea deal he negotiated with accused sex trafficker Jeffery Epstein 'Everybody called it "Pedophile Island"': Locals describe Jeffrey Epstein's shadowy presence in the US Virgin IslandsJeffrey Epstein had 14 phone numbers connected to Trump in his contacts A timeline of sexual abuse cases brought against Jeffrey Epstein
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All the things I just said were true about Jeffrey Epstein, the financier, convicted sex trafficker, and accused child rapist whose decades of personal and financial connections to entire TED conferences' worth of marquee scientists and intellectuals have at last begun to have consequences for his enablers (but not Epstein, who died in jail in early August).
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These states and their constituents are raking in fees — at last check, Delaware made some $1.3 billion annually from its company formation industry — so whenever, say, a human trafficker or extremist network sets up an anonymous company in Wilmington or Laramie or Carson City, they have little incentive to try to figure out who may be behind the companies.
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While the office layout, the big neon logo in the lobby, and the irreverent headlines in the episode ("Wait, Is Every Taylor Swift Lyric Secretly Marxist?" or "Meet the World's Richest People Trafficker (He's a Surprisingly Nice Guy)") felt awfully VICE-ish, I wasn't the only media professional who found it hard not to feel personally attacked.
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In these text messages, which were later leaked to the Mexican press—not by del Castillo, almost certainly not by the drug trafficker, and therefore likely by someone inside the Mexican government—El Chapo said that she could come to the Sinaloa resort town of Mazatlán and spend a day with him at a nearby ranch.
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But Andrew came across throughout the interview as a man who is used to being waited on by ever-present "staff"; who doesn't ask questions about how his glamorous friends obtained their wealth or why they're surrounded by underage girls; who is quicker to specify the exact status of a social occasion than to condemn a sex trafficker.
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They were Vicente Zambada, 43, the son of the wanted man now believed to be running the Sinaloa cartel, Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada; El Mayo's brother Jesus Zambada Garcia, a trafficker also known as "El Rey," or "The King"; and Damaso Lopez, 52, a former high-ranking Mexican prison official who went on to work for Guzmán.
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Computer scientist Richard Stallman, who defended Jeffrey Epstein, resigns from MIT CSAIL and the Free Software Foundation Stallman said he has resigned from his position as a visiting scientist at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab after describing a victim of sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein as "entirely willing" in emails sent to a department list. 6.
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The arrests of Sergeant Watts and Officer Mohammed came after F.B.I. and Chicago Police Department investigators recruited an informant to tell the two law enforcement officers that the informant was carrying the $5,200 for a drug trafficker, a statement from the United States attorney for the Northern District of Illinois said at the time of their arrest in 2012.
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In the first episode of our show, Miguel Angel shows us around his hometown and introduces us to a heroin trafficker, who explains how his "mini" version of the Sinaloa cartel smuggles drugs to cities across the U.S. We also visit the scene of a murder, witnessing firsthand the impact of cartel violence on daily life in the city.
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"Today's announcements are a warning to every trafficker, every crooked doctor or pharmacist, and every drug company, every chairman and foreign national and company that puts greed before the lives and health of the American people," Mr. Sessions said at a news conference in Cleveland, a city at the heart of a national opioid epidemic that killed a record 63,000 Americans last year.
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The trafficker was also worried about being unable to smuggle money and weapons into Mexico from the U.S. Bryce Pardo, an associate policy researcher at the RAND Corporation who studies illicit drug markets, said the chemical supply chain could be further disrupted if seaports are forced to shut down or limit operations in response to more outbreaks in the U.S. in Mexico.
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In a brief phone interview, Mr. Lichtman said he had taken the case with three other lawyers: Marc Fernich, who helped him successfully defend Mr. Gotti against racketeering charges in 2005; A. Eduardo Balarezo, who represented one of Mr. Guzmán's chief rivals, the Mexican trafficker Alfredo Beltrán Leyva; and William Purpura, a lawyer for the notorious Baltimore drug kingpin Richard Anthony Wilford.
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In the first legal attack on the international conspiracy indictment he is facing, Joaquín Guzmán Loera, the accused Mexican drug lord known as El Chapo, filed court papers on Thursday claiming that the Mexican government improperly extradited him to Brooklyn, where he is scheduled to stand trial next year on charges of being the biggest narcotics trafficker in the world.
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Seng Moon's experience is one of dozens of stories of women trafficked from Myanmar's Kachin State into China documented in a Human Rights Watch (HRW) report, titled "Give Us a Baby and We'll Let You Go." The unusual thing about Seng Moon, the rights group said, is that she managed to escape with her child, thanks to the assistance of another trafficker.
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The statute lists criteria that make foreigners ineligible to receive visas and ineligible to be admitted into the U.S. These include anyone "who is determined to be a drug abuser or addict," as well as anyone who "is or has been an illicit trafficker in any controlled substance," or who has assisted in trafficking, or obtained financial benefit from the activity.
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Two narratives run side by side: One concerns a couple — Nadine (Dree Hemingway of "Starlet") and Lewis (Lakeith Stanfield from "Atlanta" and "Get Out") — trying to stay together after an incalculable loss; the other follows a mayor, Roy (Robert Wisdom of "The Wire"), as he protects an aimless youth, Myron (Sam Dillon), from recruitment by a human trafficker, Doughboy (Leonard Earl Howze).
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"More" recounts the story of a boy named Gaza who works with his father, a human trafficker, and it conveys the suffering of refugees and migrants as they try to make their way from war-torn countries like Afghanistan and Syria through Turkey and eventually on to Greece and the wider world (that is, if they survive a cascade of perils, one more awful than the next).
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The Mexican government said Thursday that it is turning over notorious drug trafficker Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman to U.S. authorities, hours before President-elect Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpPossible GOP challenger says Trump doesn't doesn't deserve reelection, but would vote for him over Democrat O'Rourke: Trump driving global, U.S. economy into recession Manchin: Trump has 'golden opportunity' on gun reforms MORE takes the oath of office.
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They took a sharp turn for the worse when last week the U.S. Treasury slapped Turkey's interior and justice ministers with sanctions inspired by the Global Magnitsky Human Rights Accountability Act, which have been used to target criminals and human rights abusers such as Slobodan Tesic, the Serbian arms dealer; Mukhtar Hamid Shah, an organ trafficker from Pakistan; and Yahya Jammeh, the former president of Gambia.
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Among his portfolio of animals in various stages of rescue, his startling portraits of them against a black background stand out: a sparrowhawk that can no longer fly because a trafficker shot it in its wing, a morrocoy turtle missing pieces of its shell, one capuchin monkey that had lost an arm and another that had lost half a tail after both were brutally handled.
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Donald Trump has added two notorious lawyers to his impeachment team: disgraced former Baylor president Ken Starr, who was demoted and then resigned in 2016 when it was revealed that he and the university grossly mishandled widespread allegations of rampant sexual assault on campus, and Jeffrey Epstein pal Alan Dershowitz, who said in 2018 he continued to counsel the convicted sex offender and alleged human trafficker.
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A ruling last week by a Florida federal judge underscored how Labor Secretary Alexander AcostaAlex Alexander AcostaThree more Epstein accusers sue estate Barr removes prisons chief after Epstein death Feds face mounting pressure over Epstein's death MORE, when he was the United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida in 2007, fled the criminal battlefield rather than prosecute Jeffrey Epstein, an alleged wealthy Palm Beach child molester and sex trafficker.
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There was Terry, a hippy-ish former armed robber who'd stuck up banks to pay for his rehab program and whose sketches illustrate this piece; Alan, grandfather, gypsy, and (he claimed) international drug trafficker; Mustapha, a jolly fat man who seemed more interested in gambling scams than Gauguin; our supervisor, a sweet old retired art teacher called Paul who went around photographing manhole covers in his spare time; and Dave.
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Over four days last week as a government witness in Federal District Court in Brooklyn, Mr. Martínez described how the crime lord went from being a novice trafficker with a staff of only 25 people to earning hundreds of millions of dollars that he spent on extravagances like a fleet of private jets and a rural ranch with a zoo where guests could ride a train past crocodiles and bears.
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THE FALCON THIEFA True Tale of Adventure, Treachery, and the Hunt for the Perfect BirdBy Joshua Hammer It's not easy to get into the mind of a notorious wild-bird trafficker — the kind of person who smuggles fertile peregrine falcon eggs by strapping them to his body, or dangles from a helicopter 700 feet over the sea so that he can skim an Arctic cliff face to raid white gyrfalcon nests.
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Instead, Mr. Carvajal pointed to other top government officials, including Mr. Reverol, the interior minister, who is under a United States indictment for allegedly assisting drug traffickers and calling off investigations while he was director of the National Antidrugs Office, or O.N.A. Mr. Carvajal recalled an incident in 2012, when he said he had been investigating a luxurious ranch in Venezuela owned by Mr. Makled, the drug trafficker.
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