Smuggling

U.S. 12/12/19, 07:17

Federal agents in California thwarted an attempt to smuggle 11 Chinese nationals hiding in a moving truck full of furniture crossing the border from Mexico over the weekend. U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) said the smuggling plan was impeded Saturday evening when a 42-year-old male ...

World 08/05/19, 13:58

On Sunday, Aug. 4, Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard announced the capture of an Iraqi oil tanker that was reportedly smuggling fuel. The ship carrying 185,000 gallons of fuel was manned by seven people who were eventually arrested. The news comes ...

U.S. 07/08/19, 07:36

A professor from University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), was convicted of conspiring to illegally export semiconductor chips with missile guidance applications to China, a statement from Department of Justice said. Yi-Chi Shih, 64, an electrical engineer and adjunct professor at ...

New York 06/18/19, 19:28

Federal authorities say a 39-year-old Connecticut man has been caught trying to smuggle nearly three dozen live finches through John F. Kennedy Airport in order to sell them for singing competitions.Francis Gurahoo was arrested Sunday after arriving on a flight ...

Politics 04/24/19, 07:50

President Donald Trump is making a new threat to send armed soldiers to the U.S.-Mexico border. Trump tweeted Wednesday that "Mexico's Soldiers recently pulled guns on our National Guard Soldiers, probably as a diversionary tactic for drug smugglers on the Border," ...

Europe 03/27/19, 03:12

Police in northern Greece have adopted a new tactic for disrupting gangs that smuggle people into the country from across the land border with Turkey, an increasingly popular route: stopping drivers who work for the gangs and charging them with ...

U.S. 02/23/19, 18:45

The Latest on Acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan's visit to the Southwest border (all times local): 6:50 p.m. Top defense officials have toured sections of the U.S.-Mexico border to see how the military could reinforce efforts to block drug smuggling and other ...

U.S. 02/14/19, 16:38

After El Chapo's conviction in a drug-trafficking trial that included florid testimony of jewel-encrusted guns, a fleet of cash-laden jets and a personal zoo with roaming big cats, some Americans have floated an idea they see as poetic justice: Why ...

Europe 02/13/19, 14:52

Italian news agency ANSA says a monsignor who had worked as a senior Vatican accountant has been convicted of corruption in connection with a failed cash-smuggling plot.ANSA said a Rome appeals court Wednesday convicted the Rev. Nunzio Scarano of corruption ...

U.S. 02/12/19, 19:00

Mexico's most notorious drug lord, Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, was convicted Tuesday of running an industrial-scale smuggling operation after a three-month trial packed with Hollywood-style tales of grisly killings, political payoffs, cocaine hidden in jalapeno cans, jewel-encrusted guns and a ...

U.S. 02/12/19, 13:58

Mexico's most notorious drug lord, Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, was convicted Tuesday of running an industrial-scale smuggling operation after a three-month trial packed with Hollywood-style tales of grisly killings, political payoffs, cocaine hidden in jalapeno cans, jewel-encrusted guns and a ...

U.S. 02/06/19, 13:20

Jurors are deliberating for a third day at the U.S. trial of the notorious Mexican drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman.The panel returned to work Wednesday in Brooklyn federal court.The jurors sent the judge notes Tuesday indicating interest in the ...

U.S. 02/04/19, 10:46

The Latest on the U.S. trial of the Mexican drug lord known as El Chapo (all times local):10:45 a.m.A judge has been giving instructions to jurors at the U.S. drug-trafficking trial of the Mexican drug lord known as El Chapo.They ...

U.S. 02/04/19, 07:46

After nearly three months of testimony about a vast drug-smuggling conspiracy steeped in violence, a jury is due to begin deliberations Monday at the U.S. trial of the infamous Mexican drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman.A federal judge in Brooklyn ...

Business 01/18/19, 16:32

The Latest on Canada (all times local): 4:25 p.m. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says all countries should be concerned about Beijing's blending of its commercial interests with threats of consequences if Canada doesn't do what China wants. China detained former Canadian diplomat ...

World 01/14/19, 22:57

A Chinese court sentenced a Canadian to death Monday in a sudden retrial of his drug smuggling case, while another Canadian man has been denied diplomatic immunity, ratcheting up the tensions following Canada's arrest of a top Chinese technology executive ...

U.S. 01/09/19, 11:27

A museum dedicated to the U.S. Border Patrol seeks to piece together the history of an agency that has evolved as the nation's views on immigration have changed.The U.S. Border Patrol Museum in El Paso, Texas, explores the story from ...

Europe 01/03/19, 04:33

British officials say two men have been arrested on suspicion of smuggling migrants from France to England by sea.The National Crime Agency said late Wednesday that a 33-year-old Iranian citizen and a 24-year-old British man were arrested in Manchester.The men ...

U.S. 12/18/18, 17:49

U.S. immigration officials say hundreds of migrants are crossing the U.S.-Mexico border in a desolate New Mexico region that until recently had seen barely any traffic. They say it appears to be a smuggling route. It is where 7-year-old Jakelin Caal and ...

U.S. 12/14/18, 14:11

U.S. prosecutors in Hawaii are accusing the owners and officers of a Japanese fishing boat of helping Indonesian fishermen smuggle nearly 1,000 shark fins, worth about $58,000 on the black market.Boat owners Hamada Suisan Co. Ltd. and JF Zengyoren, or ...