Three men have been jailed for a total of 40 years after being convicted of using a moving company as a screen for an international drug trafficking plot. Mark Youell, 64, of Clacton-on-Sea, Essex, was recorded telling Alfred Rumbold, 65, from Orpington, Kent, and 73-year-old moving driver Brian Wright “We’re …
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Voice of the real Australia is a regular newsletter of the ACM, which has reporters in every state and territory. register here to receive it by e-mail, or here to pass it on to a friend. Iconic: This pair of ‘immortal smugglers’ feature Andrew Johns in an iconic skateboarding photo …
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Kochi: Swapna Suresh, main defendant in the Thiruvananthapuram gold smuggling case, who was released on bail earlier this month, was granted further flexibilities on Tuesday and was cleared out of Ernakulam district. Swapna, who resides in Thiruvananthapuram district, can now travel outside of Ernakulam district, but she cannot travel outside …
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THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The Narcotics Control Bureau (BNC) arrested two men from the state capital in separate cases of drug trafficking through courier service. The BCN identified the defendants as Akhil and Nishad. Both were receivers to whom the packages were addressed. According to the NCB, the arrests were made as part …
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About 60% of asylum seekers using tiny boats to cross the Channel are not in France 24 hours before, we learned. This suggests that coordinated smuggling operations move migrants across France hours before crossings. Most traffickers now choose to store their boats in Germany, but many of the people they …
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TUCSON (KVOA) – A Phoenix woman could spend up to 10 years in prison after pleading guilty Thursday to transporting and harboring more than 100 undocumented non-nationals in January. On January 12, more than 20 migrants who entered the country illegally were found at a residence in Avolndale, Arizona. These …
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CHENNAI: There is a racketeering whale in the works, but the crime scene and the smuggling network have not yet been located. The most prized contraband that Tamil Nadu police and other government agencies have captured in recent months is a relatively new commodity to the region – sperm whale …
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A New Mexico man was arrested Tuesday after border patrol officers discovered 67 illegal immigrants concealed in the back compartment of a box van he was driving in West Texas. Javier Duarte, a 22-year-old who lives in Las Cruces, allegedly drove the white box truck near Alpine, Texas on Tuesday …
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Thupeyo Muleya – Beitbridge Office The trial of a 52-year-old Zimbabwean who was recently arrested with R30 million of contraband cigarettes in South Africa has been set for January 17 next year in Polokwane Magistrates’ Court in the province of Limpopo. Alec Muthanguro, allegedly linked to a racketeering racket by …
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DEL RIO, Texas – On November 4, special agents from the Del Rio office of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Homeland Security Investigation (HSI) in Del Rio arrested a woman from Austin, Texas, the tenth and final defendant indicted in an indictment of 11 counts involving human trafficking resulting in …
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