Puerto Rico traveler smuggled cocaine in luggage, captured by police
PHILADELPHIA — A man from Puerto Rico was sentenced Thursday to two years in federal prison for attempting to smuggle more than four kilograms of cocaine into Philadelphia, according to the U.S.…
NYC Correction Officer Smuggled Weed and Smokes Into Rikers Island
BRONX, NY – Bronx District Attorney Darcel D. Clark and New York City Department of Investigation Commissioner Jocelyn E. Strauber have announced the indictment of a New York City Department of Correction…
U.S. Border Patrol Agents and Jefferson County Sheriff’s Deputies Seized More Than $300,000 in Smuggled Tobacco Products
THERESA, N.Y. – U.S. Border Patrol agents assigned to the Wellesley Island Station Anti-Smuggling Unit assisted the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office on a traffic stop that resulted in the seizure of more…
Climate-warming gases being smuggled into Europe, investigation says
By David Stanway SINGAPORE (Reuters) – Large amounts of climate-warming refrigerant gases from China and Turkey are being smuggled illegally into Europe, undermining a global pact to phase them out, a report…
CBP Intercepts 27 Smuggled Amazon Parrots at the Nogales, Arizona Port of Entry
TUCSON, Ariz. – U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers and agriculture specialists at the Area Port of Nogales have made a significant seizure of protected birds. Port personnel inspected a passenger…
Wellesley Island Border Patrol Agents Arrested a Male U.S. Citizen and Seized Approximately 68 Pounds of Smuggled Marijuana
THERESA, N.Y. – U.S. Border Patrol agents assigned to the Wellesley Island Station seized approximately 68 lbs. of marijuana, smuggled into the United States. On November 15, Border Patrol agents initiated a…
Norfolk CBP Seizes Firearms, Ammo Being Smuggled to Liberia in a Seaport Container
NORFOLK, Va. – U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers seized three firearms and over 200 rounds of ammunition in Norfolk, Va., on October 12 that was concealed inside a shipping container destined…
CBP Officers Prevent Live Parrots from Being Smuggled into US
SAN DIEGO – U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers assigned to the San Ysidro port of entry, seized thirteen live yellow-headed parrots concealed in duffel bags inside a vehicle. CBP officers prevent…
Smuggled note exposes violence against women in Myanmar jail -lawyers, activists
(Reuters) – In early February, four members of an anti-junta group in the Myanmar city of Mandalay said they received a secret, one-page, handwritten note spirited out of a prison that details…
Agents intercept smuggled migrants from multiple local stash houses
EL PASO, Texas – U.S. Border Patrol Agents in El Paso Sector intercept 171 migrants from four human stash houses this week. On Feb. 26, agents assigned to the El Paso Border…
Correctional officer smuggled drugs inside bags of chips at Monmouth County Jail
FREEHOLD, NJ – A Shamong man who worked as a correctional officer at the Monmouth County Correctional Institution has pleaded guilty to providing inmates with drugs in chip bags, according to Acting…
Monmouth County jail guard smuggled drugs to inmates in bags of chips
FREEHOLD, NJ – A Shamong man who worked as a correctional officer at the Monmouth County Correctional Institution has pleaded guilty to providing inmates with drugs in chip bags, according to Acting…
Queens man smuggled Burmese pythons in his pants, DOJ says
U.S. Border Patrol agents captured a Richmond Hill man trying to smuggle three Burmese pythons into the United States through a border crossing in Champlain. Calvin Bautista, age 36, was arraigned today…
CBP Seizes Vehicle Smuggled from Mexico into Puerto Rico
The individual, a US citizen, purchased in Mexico a 2022 Suzuki “Jimny” and obtained Mexican plates driving the vehicle across the Southwest border all the way to Jacksonville, Florida. A US flagged…
Macon State Prisoner Sentenced to 300 Months for Brokering Kilogram Meth Deal, Attempting to Have Drugs Smuggled into Georgia Prisons
MACON, Ga. – An incarcerated individual who attempted to have a controlled substance smuggled into Georgia prisons and brokered a methamphetamine deal with an undercover GBI agent was sentenced to serve 25…
Laredo Sector Border Patrol agents discover people being smuggled in a dump trailer
LAREDO, Texas – Laredo Sector Border Patrol agents discover people being smuggled inside a dump trailer northwest of Laredo, Texas. The incident occurred on August 30, when agents assigned to Laredo West and…
Prison guard charged with accepting bribes to allow inmate to receive smuggled items
DUBLIN, GA: A federal prison guard faces the possibility of substantial time as an inmate after being charged with multiple counts of accepting bribes to allow smuggled material into a prison. Tiffany…
CBP Officers Again Intercept Smuggled Parrots
EL PASO, Texas – U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers working at the Paso Del Norte international crossing in downtown El Paso seized five live parrots March 30. The birds were hidden…
Resident of Hong Kong Who Smuggled Glass Eels from the United States is Sentenced
Leonard C Boyle, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and Edward Grace, Assistant Director of the Office of Law Enforcement for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, announced that…
Baltimore Woman Pleads Guilty to Racketeering Conspiracy, Admits to Assisting Inmate to Have Contraband Smuggled into Maryland’s Federal Pretrial Detention Facility
Baltimore, Maryland – Lynette Carlest, age 49, of Baltimore, Maryland, pleaded guilty yesterday to participating in a racketeering conspiracy, including drug distribution and bribery, by assisting a detainee at Chesapeake Detention Facility…
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