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Police intercepted smugglers on the border between South Africa and Zimbabwe on Wednesday, where vehicles carrying heaps of illegal cigarettes were being taken out of the country. The Crime Intelligence operation driven by members of the Musina law enforcement and the SA National Defense Force ...

Approximately 1,000 illegal entries dailyThe migrants travel from southern or northern routes after meeting with their smugglers in Iran's Maku or Urumiye cities. Approximately 1,000 illegal migrants cross the border daily, and an average of 50 of them are captured. Migrants who escape security forces tend ...

OCEANSIDE, Calif. — Federal maritime patrols caught suspected seafaring smugglers with nearly three-quarters of a ton of marijuana in a vessel off the coast of Oceanside, authorities reported Wednesday. A U.S. Customs and Border Protection Air and Marine Operation aircraft spotted the suspicious boat ...

A criminal network who used corrupt baggage handlers to smuggle millions of pounds worth of drugs through Heathrow Airport have been jailed. They were caught following an 18 month investigation led by the National Crime Agency (NCA), with support from Border Force and Heathrow Airport.

Anna's parents sat her down to tell her that her dad was a weed smuggler. He said everyone was doing it in the 80s and it wasn't a big deal, but she didn't see it that way. "I felt like it was irresponsible," she said, now a single mother in New York. "Damn, he already had money, two kids, it wasn't the time to ...

Smugglers are accused of organizing the crossing of 93 people, including Syrian, Pakistani, Afghan and Iraqi nationals, into Greece. The migrants were intercepted in operations in Edirne's border districts. EU countries have been seeking ways to curb the flow of refugees to the continent, especially after ...

People smugglers used a poorly-equipped yacht to bring illegal immigrants across the North Sea from the Netherlands to a seaside town in Suffolk. The Ukrainian smuggling gang were caught bringing 19 of their fellow countrymen into the UK when they began unloading their illegal cargo into cars and ...

Chinese authorities have arrested 26 people who were part of an iPhone smuggling operation between Hong Kong and the mainland city of Shenzhen. The criminals used aerial drones to connect two 660-foot cables between two high-rise buildings, and then passed as many as 15,000 iPhones per night ...

The Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) has seized over 200 Indian star tortoises from a hotel room in Kolkata and arrested two persons in connection with the case. According to a statement issued by the DRI, the accused had planned to smuggle the tortoises to Bangkok. Acting on an information ...

There is little chance that you would have heard of 25-year-old Nilima Jagannath Selote who is posted as a forest guard in Naxal-affected and the remote area of Sironcha in Gadchiroli Circle. She was one of the several women honoured in Pune as 'Leading Lady' on International Women's Day.

A worker pours harvested rice grain into a bucket at a Compagnie Agricole de Saint-Louis du Senegal (CASL) farm, in Saint-Louis, Senegal, on Tuesday Nov. 22, 2016. Rice is fast becoming West Africa's preferred food and after four decades of importing the staple, the region is now aiming to grow enough ...

Large seizures of narcotics have been made from a record number of smugglers, with 58 individuals currently facing police charges, according to a report. The high volume of seizures has customs offers working harder than ever, reports newspaper Sydsvenskan. Major gateways for smuggling into Sweden ...

STA, March 22, 2018 – In a cross-border operation led by the Slovenian police, twelve people suspected of smuggling migrants from Kosovo to Slovenia were arrested on Wednesday, according to a Thursday press release from Europol. Eight people were arrested in Kosovo and four in Slovenia, while 12 ...

He said that the driver of the truck had connived with smugglers to hide the bags of rice inside the stack of crates, adding that it would have been easy to ... adding that the Pangolin scales along with the suspected smuggler would be handed over to the National Environmental Standards and Regulations ...

VT Guard questioned about avalanche at Smugglers Notch ... Matthew Brown and MSG Tom Bevins answered questions on Friday, March 16, from Free Press Reporter Jess Aloe, giving more details into an avalanche at Smugglers Notch in Jeffersonville that injured 6 soldiers during a training exercise.

All attendees will be given their own book smuggler bags to take away including a book to read, information about rights available and titles publishing in the UK. The UNESCO-recognised day in Lithuania marks the birthday of “King of the Book Smugglers” Jurgis Bielinis, who created a secret distribution ...

The warning raises unanswered questions about the wisdom of Wednesday's training exercise in which six soldiers training in the school's advanced course were swept at least 300 meters in an avalanche near Smugglers Notch. Three remained hospitalized Thursday. At the time of the avalanche, heavy ...

Libya has issued 205 arrest warrants for Libyans and foreigners suspected of being involved in a smuggling network for migrants heading to Europe. They include accusations of human trafficking, torture, murder and rape. The Libyan attorney general's office said the network included members of the ...

THE shifting sands of the Sahara have long been crossed by trade and smuggling routes. Traffickers send people and drugs north over the desert. But they have a problem: what to put in the empty trucks going back? The answer—pasta. Some informed sources reckon that, apart from people, by weight ...

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On March 7, personnel from the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI), based on specific inputs, had asked the senior officials of VCTPL (Visakha Container Terminal Private Limited) in Visakhapatnam to offload three specific containers from a container liner, which was heading to a port in China.

On 5 February, the 'Zero Draft' of the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration* was released by co-facilitators Mexico and Switzerland. The draft, which reflects the views of member states, UN agencies, civil society and academia expressed during extensive consultations in 2017, sets out ...

When I was reading through the U.S. court documents about the arrest of Phantom Secure owner Vincent Ramos, I noticed a mention of an arrest of another Metro Vancouver man last June. That man, Saysana Luangphamdeng came after FBI agents seized a Phantom Secure phone south of the border and ...

JAMAICA, N.Y. (CBSNewYork) — According to police, one traveler to New York carried a little secret cargo under his wing. U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers and agriculture specialists at John F. Kennedy International Airport made an unusual discovery on March 3 after inspecting the luggage of ...

Tripoli: International charity ships and Libya's coastguard have picked up several hundred migrants after smugglers trying to take advantage of calm seas launched a flurry of boats towards Italy. Libyan coastguard vessels intercepted three migrant boats, the first an inflatable dinghy that had broken down ...

Illegal cheese smuggling is on the rise in Canada due to import restrictions and the rising cost of dairy products. The quotas and tariffs in place aim to protect Canadian dairy farmers against cheaper imports, in particular from Europe and America. There are undergoing trade negotiations taking place with the U.S., and ...

Bhubaneswar: Biju Patnaik International Airport seems to have become the target of gold smugglers with three such cases being detected since the first international flight started operating on April 26 last year. The most recent case was detected on Monday when Air Intelligence Unit of Customs recovered ...

Willcox Border Patrol agents helped a state trooper with a pursuit following a traffic stop last Friday, near Whetstone. Two U.S. citizens were arrested, and an estimated $78,000 in marijuana was seized. Contributed Photo/U.S. Border Patrol Tucson Sector. Facebook · Twitter · Email; Print; Save.

HAFIZABAD - The Pindi Bhattian police have nabbed a notorious drug smuggler of KP and have recovered 10,080 grams charas near Motorway. On a tip off, the Pindi Bhattian ... The police arrested the drug smuggler Gul Dad Khan of Peshawar and impounded the car. According to police source, the ...

The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) said that it would continue to check the activities of smugglers in the country in order to boost the Nation's economy. The Controller, Federal Operations Unit (FOU), Zone `A` of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Comptroller Muhammed Uba, disclosed this on Friday in ...

The Melkote station police arrested four suspected sandalwood smugglers, including two women, and seized from them tools used to cut trees. Following a tip-off, the police raided a place near Melkote reserve forest area, close to Pandavapura, late on Tuesday and arrested the gang. The police suspect ...

File photo of tiny red-ear slider turtles. Federal investigators say turtle smuggling is a lucrative businesses, and have charged three South Carolinians and a North Carolinian who they say packed turtles in socks or covered them up with bits of candy, then shipped them overseas via U.S. mail or FedEx.

NEAR SOUTH PADRE ISLAND – Beach Access 6 on South Padre Island is part of the suspected path alleged human smugglers used in an attempt to go undetected. According to federal court documents, seven people in the U.S. illegally were dropped-off on the beaches of South Padre Island and were ...

Three South Carolinians and a North Carolinian have been indicted by a federal grand jury on charges of operating an illegal scheme to smuggle tiny turtles in and out of the United States. The turtles were shipped by U.S. mail and FedEx, packaged in socks and covered up with little pieces of candy or ...

At Mountainoak Cheese in rural Ontario, their Gouda is winning awards. The owners support Canada's tariffs on cheese imports. Credit: Nate Tabak. Clara is a college student in Toronto, and in a few days, she's flying home to Paris to visit her family and friends. She also stopping at a fromagerie to buy ...

The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) yesterday said it had impounded 177 units of vehicles and other items including unused tyres and food items from smugglers through the Lagos border. Comptroller, Federal Operations Unit Zone A, Ikeja, Lagos, Mr Mohammed Garba, disclosed this when members of ...

Seventeen smugglers are in the custody of the Officials of the Federal Operation Unit, Zone A, Lagos, of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), have arrested 17 suspected smugglers and seized contraband valued at N1.04 billion. The Controller of the unit, Comptroller Mohammed Uba Garba, said yesterday ...

More than half a ton of hashish seized in Jazan and smugglers arrested. MOHAMMED AL-SULAMI | Published — Tuesday 27 February 2018. Border Guards in Jazan arrested seven drug smugglers who tried to bring 618 kg of hashish into the Kingdom. (Supplied) ...

TAIZ, Yemen - Women are being increasingly used by smugglers in Yemen to bypass military checkpoints because male personnel are often unwilling to conduct body searches. In both areas controlled by Houthi rebels and areas controlled by forces supporting President Abd Rabbuh Mansour Hadi, ...

The United States has issued a new round of sanctions targeting oil smugglers in Libya aimed at blocking exploitation of natural resources that is driving instability, the US Treasury Department said on Monday. In a statement, Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) said it was sanctioning six ...

Ahmed, who did not wish to use his real name, is just one member of a new class of human smugglers. Disillusioned by diminished hauls, rampant ocean pollution, and a dearth of alternative employment prospects, these fishermen say they are running out of options. This perfect storm of circumstance is ...

We are posing as would-be migrants attempting to reach Italy with the help of our "pusherman" -- one of an army of brokers who work alongside smugglers on the Nigerian end of the migrant route from Africa to Europe. Edo State is Nigeria's trafficking hub and one of Africa's largest departure points.

Despite some of the toughest gun laws in the country, a former gun smuggler tells NBC Bay Area that illegal firearms will continue to flow into the state as long as guns can be purchased with relative ease in other parts of the country. In fact, the wide disparity in regulations creates a lucrative market for those ...

Albanian police say they arrested 39 suspected members of a smuggling network, including four policemen, that helped some 1,000 Albanian citizens illegally emigrate to North America and the United Kingdom in exchange for US$ 9,820 to $30,000 per person. Albanian Police Department (Photo Credit: ...

Prague, March 9 (CTK) - Three people-smugglers have been caught on the Prague ring road transferring 22 refugees from Iraq, Syria and Turkey in a van to Germany, police spokesman Jaroslav Ibehej said on Friday, adding that the suspects previously smuggled further 100 migrants across the Czech ...