weapons smugglers

It was an international smuggling ring that was trafficking not in guns or drugs, but native California succulent plants called Dudleyas. “Pretty unusual case for us,” said California Department of Fish and Wildlife Capt. Patrick Foy. “Like nothing we've seen before in terms of the scale and the type of poaching ...

A U.S. district judge handed a sentence of life in prison today to a driver who was transporting undocumented immigrants in a tractor-trailer so hot that ten people died. "I am so sorry it happened," said James Matthew Bradley Jr. in a video statement played in court which The San Antonio Express-News ...

He said smugglers also headed the other way, moving sugar, flour and 50-kilogram sacks of fertilizers into North Korea. There is growing evidence that tough new sanctions imposed on North Korea to stop its nuclear weapons and missile programs have begun to bite, and bite hard. Factories have closed ...

ATLANTA, GA — An Atlanta man is headed to federal prison for illegally selling guns to people in foreign countries using the murky, mysterious "dark web" to try to hide his identity. Sherman Jackson, 28, of Atlanta, was sentenced Tuesday by U.S. District Judge Amy Totenberg to one year, nine months in ...

Gun Smuggler Sold To Other Countries on 'Dark Web' | Patch PM. Share-worthy stories from the Georgia Patch network to talk about tonight: 'Dark Web' Gun Smuggler From Atlanta Sentenced. An Atlanta man is headed to federal prison for illegally selling guns to people in foreign countries using the murky ...

NEW ORLEANS – Earlier this month, on a gun range in Louisiana, a man dressed as a space smuggler fired a working replica of Han Solo's iconic Star ... Predictably, Miculek's demonstration of Solo's weapon doesn't go unnoticed, soon drawing the attention of Darth Vader, who appears at the gun range ...

The Special Cell is actively working against illegal arms peddlers since 2012. Several of them have been arrested and a large number weapons have been recovered from them. These weapons were being supplied to criminals who were then using them for illegal activities. Ilias Ansari was arrested near ...

Tracy Garwood, 62, of Scottsdale, has been charged with conspiracy to possess and transfer unregistered machine guns and illegally export firearms to ... "By arresting weapons smugglers, law enforcement cuts the supply of firearms to the drug cartels, who fuel violence and pose a threat to citizens on both ...

That person smuggled the machine guns into Mexico. “Firearms trafficking is a priority for ATF because of the increased potential for those guns to be acquired by the criminal element,” said ATF Special Agent in Charge Fred Milanowski. “By arresting weapons smugglers, law enforcement cuts the supply of ...

According to information received, the informant reported that from time-to-time he encounters men who are engaged in smuggling guns to Jamaica. ... The sources say that in a statement to law enforcement personnel in New York, the informant claimed that the gun smugglers also said they were seeking ...

The CBSA had earlier received a confidential tip that someone would be attempting to bring guns across the border illegally, prompting them to stop and search every vehicle that crossed. ... Senk'lip said he had been in the U.S. for seven hours and denied having any firearms or weapons in the vehicle.

(An amusing bit of trivia: The anti-gun lawmaker responsible for getting violent video game restrictions passed in California was subsequently arrested and charged with being a gun smuggler. He pleaded guilty to racketeering.) As Reason's Jesse Walker has documented, pretty much the entire history of ...

Former Guns N' Roses / Velvet Revolver drummer Matt Sorum dropped a bombshell recently on the 2 Hours with Matt Pinfield podcast. Sorum revealed he used to be a drug smuggler before his rock star days, taking cocaine across borders by strapping pounds of the powder around his waist. It's the perfect ...

Gun crimes were being committed with guns that didn't actually work. The country still battles to shut down gun smugglers, but gun deaths are very low. These are only capsule descriptions, but what's clear is that each country, for whatever reason, heavily regulate guns. If you follow LaPierre's logic, they also should be less ...

NEW DELHI: The Delhi Police Special Cell, Southern Range, has busted an inter-state gun running racket by arresting notorious arms supplier Vinod ... Specific inputs were received that Kumar – who used to procured illegal arms and ammunition from Burhanpur and supplied them weapons to Delhi, ...

There's a lot of good shit in the book that doesn't pertain to GN'R. Before I was in a rock band, I was a drug smuggler. I used to smuggle cocaine across borders. I'd fly on airplanes with two kilos strapped around my waist. Most of my deliveries were in Hawaii, because I had a big connection there. I thought ...

A Pakistani drug smuggler was killed and 10 kg of narcotics as well as arms and ammunition seized along the Indo-Pak International Border (IB) in Punjab ... "Ambush (team) located two Pakistani smugglers approaching stealthily towards the fence after crossing the IB into the Indian territory," a senior BSF ...

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 ...

"To reduce gun violence in our communities and to reduce the threat to our communities, and to reduce the threat to our law enforcement officers from assault rifles and other illegal firearms, we need to stop the flow of illegal guns into our state," New Jersey Attorney General Gurbir S. Grewal said Friday.

Then, Moore allegedly took the guns to the Equinox, where the third suspect stored them for short periods leading up to gun sales. The complaint charges Moore with trafficking more than 25 firearms, although 50 firearms were smuggled into the city, according to sources. Among the guns allegedly sold ...

There are three upgraded weapons you can unlock in 'The Shadowed Throne' by completing difficult, complicated Easter egg steps. You can unlock these weapons in any order — and depending on your Morse Code skills, these range from challenging, to impossibly difficult. We'll provide a few tips to ...

After a week of suspense, Gov. Jerry Brown said Wednesday that he would accept federal funding to add 400 California National Guard troops to a program that targets gangs, human traffickers and gun and drug smugglers — so-called “transnational crime.” But it's not clear how many additional California ...

The first phase of the Easter egg involves getting three special melee weapons and placing them in their respective slots by the church. The Smuggler's Bat ... Pass the Smuggler a weapon through the panel hole in the ground. ... Just try different guns until the prompt says the Smuggler is armed. Now, play ...

Mr Prasertrit, who was from Muak Lek district of Saraburi province, was then told to open the bed of his truck, where a cache of military-grade weapons was found. They comprised two Tavor assault rifles, four M-16 rifles, 20 M-16 upper receivers, four M16 lower receivers and three hand flares. Mr Chayut ...

They have therefore become ideal candidates for smuggling drugs, weapons and other illicit items across the war-ravaged country. Elham Abu-Bakr told Middle East Eye that she had managed to smuggle five guns, belonging to her brothers, from the southern city of Aden to the capital Sanaa, without one ...