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Program to help truckers attracts drug smugglers
Laredo :: TX :: USA | 6 days ago
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A U.S. program that offers trusted trucking companies speedy passage across American borders has begun attracting just the sort of customer who places a premium on avoiding inspections: Mexican drug smugglers. Most trucks enrolled in the program pause...
Tags: U.S, trucks companies, Texas-Mexico, Autotransportes Varela Davila, Leonardo Varela Resendez, participating companies, Texas A&M University, drug smugglers, Laredo, Illegal drug trade, Semi-trailer truck, U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Smuggling, Truck driver, Customs Trade Partnership against Terrorism
Illegal immigrants and smugglers get border fence freedom?
Over 300 miles of fencing on the U.S.-Mexican border that was supposed to prevent illegal immigrations and smugglers from crossing was stripped by Congress from a Department of Homeland security bill. Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) had offered an amendment...
Tags: illegal immigrants, border fence, border crossing, drug smugglers
Customs agent cleared of aiding mob drug smugglers
Montreal :: Canada | about 1 month ago
Credibility From Thursday's Globe and Mail Last updated on Thursday, Oct. 01, 2009 03:09AM EDT T he corrupt Montreal airport customs agent wasn't in it for riches. She didn't get more than $500 for handing smugglers five priceless passes to avoid inspection...While...
Tags: customs agents, Nancy Cedeno, drug smugglers
Border Policeman Nearly Decapitated in Pursuit of Drug Smuggler
June 2, 2009 Quite literally, Officer Esteban Gonzalez nearly lost his head Tuesday morning while in pursuit of a group of alleged drug smugglers. Death was merely inches away when a broken pipe ripped through his vehicle just a mile from the...
Tags: drug cartels, illegal drugs, drug smugglers, police, Mission TX, marijuana
Clinton in Mexico with drug war plans
Mexico City :: Mexico | 8 months ago
Credibility These criminals are outgunning law enforcement officials," Mrs Clinton said on the plane to Mexico City. "And since we know that the vast majority, 90 per cent of that (weaponry), comes from our country, we're going to try to stop it from getting there...
Tags: Mexico City, Hillary Rodham Clinton, U.S, drug trade, illegal drug, mexicans drug, Jorge Aguirre, United States, drug smugglers, Mexican
Iran police kill six drug smugglers
Tehrān :: Iran | 8 months ago
Credibility The armed fighting, which started Saturday evening in Iran's Sistan-Baluchistan province near the Pakistan border, also led to the death of an Iranian soldier, Press TV has learned. The Iranian armed forces have managed to bring the region under control...
Tags: Iran's Drug Control Headquarters, drug smugglers, police kills, suspected drug
Two NATO soldiers killed in Afghanistan
Kabul :: Afghanistan | 10 months ago
Credibility Southern Afghanistan is a notorious hotspot for the Taliban-led insurgency, with several districts out of government control. There more than 22,000 foreign soldiers in the south, most of them American, British, Canadian and Dutch. The latest deaths take...
Tags: Afghanistan, drug trafficker, U.S, drug smugglers, John Craddock, Nato, Taliban, NATO
Iran dismantles major drug ring
Tehrān :: Iran | about 1 year ago
Credibility Iranian intelligence officers on Tuesday successfully located a network producing psychoactive substances in Tehran. The drug ring was reportedly preparing to distribute the pills in major cities such as Tehran, Isfahan and Qazvin. Security officials...
Tags: Iran, drug smugglers, Tehran, Afghanistan
Iran hangs two convicted drug smugglers
Tehrān :: Iran | about 1 year ago
Credibility 0 Tehran: Two convicted drug smugglers have been hanged in Tehran, Iran’s state newspaper said on Wednesday. "The two men were drug smugglers. They were executed inside Tehran's Ghezel Hesar prison on Tuesday morning," the Iran newspaper said.
Tags: Iran, Tehran, drug smugglers, murder committed
Australia to Discuss Drug Smugglers with Indonesia
Jakarta :: Indonesia | about 1 year ago
Credibility Australia's Foreign Minister Stephen Smith said on Sunday he would raise the issue of three Australian drug smugglers held on death row in Indonesia in a trip to the Southeast Asian country this week. Smith is due to meet Indonesian Foreign Minister Hassan...
Tags: Indonesian, Bali Nine, foreign minister, drug smugglers, Stephen Smith, Australia, death row, bali bombers, minister stephen
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