Tag: Smuggling
‘DWI Dude’ attorney sentenced for scamming drug traffickers
SHERMAN, Texas — A Texas lawyer known as the “DWI Dude” has been sentenced to more than 15 years in federal prison for falsely...
Customs: Woman hid cocaine in shoes at Atlanta airport
ATLANTA — A Georgia woman was caught trying to smuggle $40,000 worth of cocaine in multiple pairs of shoes through the Atlanta airport, according...
3 killed, 27 hospitalized after boat capsizes off San Diego
SAN DIEGO — A packed boat being used in a suspected human smuggling operation capsized Sunday and broke apart in powerful surf along the...
Rap rhythm from Rio de Janeiro’s favelas causing a stir
RIO DE JANEIRO — First, Vitor Oliveira sold the ground floor of the bare-bones brick building he constructed near the top of his sprawling...
Mexico worries about scorn if another drug lord is released
MEXICO CITY — Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador worried Monday that yet another shadowy release of a drug lord is about to make...
Ghislaine Maxwell’s July trial is postpone until the fall
NEW YORK — The July trial for Ghislaine Maxwell on charges that she aided ex-boyfriend Jeffrey Epstein in the sexual abuse of teenage girls...
Lebanon detains 2 suspected of drug smuggling to Saudi
BEIRUT — Lebanese authorities have arrested two brothers suspected of smuggling drugs in pomegranate shipments to Saudi Arabia, leading the kingdom to ban Lebanese...
How the Gaetz probe grew from sex trafficking to medical pot
ORLANDO, Fla. — When Rep. Matt Gaetz vacationed in the Bahamas in 2018, he was joined by a doctor who donated to his campaign...
Growth in Burkina Faso gold mining fuels human trafficking
SECACO, Burkina Faso — For months, human traffickers beat and drugged Blessing, hauling the 27-year-old from one gold mine encampment to the next, where...
Smuggling operation suspected after 90 found in Texas home
HOUSTON — More than 90 people were found in a house in southwestern Houston that investigators suspect was part of a human smuggling operation,...
