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Drug Smuggling
56 posts
Burma’s Rohingya Refugees Tarred with Narco-Stigma
The Rohingya Muslim people of Burma are facing what some have called genocide in their homeland, long denied citizenship rights…
July 26, 2017
Inmate Craps Out Drugs, Informs Guards That He Just Dropped an Eight Ball
We’ve heard of dropping a deuce, but never an 8-ball. According to a somewhat disturbing report from the…
July 25, 2017
$1 Million Worth of Pot Found In New Ford Fusions
United Auto Workers Local 1714 begged the bosses at an Ohio Ford plant not to send their manufacturing…
July 17, 2017
Funky Salad: Nearly 2 Tons of Weed Disguised as Lettuce Seized at Texas Border
Here are some funky salad greens that almost made it to our dinner tables—5,754 packages of lettuce containing…
June 30, 2017
U.S., Cuba Still Cooperating on Stopping Drug Smugglers
HAVANA (AP) — The U.S. and Cuba are still cooperating to intercept drug smugglers even through the Trump…
June 23, 2017
Ex-Navy SEAL and CIA Agent Busted in Weed Smuggling Operation
James Dennis Smith Jr., who served 16 years as a Navy SEAL as well as a CIA special…
June 22, 2017
Kurdish Guerrillas Behind Turkey’s Hashish Trade?
Security forces in southeastern Turkey, where authorities have been waging a brutal counter-insurgency war against Kurdish guerrillas, reported…
June 15, 2017
U.S. Guns Reportedly Shipped to Brazilian Narco-Gangs
Amid fast-escalating nightmarish narco-violence in Brazil comes disconcerting word that police in Rio de Janeiro seized 60 assault rifles hidden…
June 13, 2017
Turkey Seizes More Than a Ton of Heroin on Board Ship
ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkey’s state-run news agency says Turkish police and coast guards have seized more than…
June 7, 2017
Australia’s Most Notorious Drug Smuggler Returns from Bali
SYDNEY (AP) — One of Australia’s most notorious criminals has returned home more than 12 years after she…
June 1, 2017