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	Pennsylvania Illegal Drug Importation \| Philadelphia Drug Smuggling Pittsburgh Washington County Westmoreland York PA
		If you have been charged with a federal drug importation or smuggling crime, you should be aware that sentencing guidelines and mandatory minimum sentences have been made harsher since September 11th, 2001.
		At the drug defense law offices of Patrick J. Artur and Associates, we thoroughly investigate the circumstances of your drug importation charges, as well as the investigation and procedures for collecting the drug smuggling evidence against you.
		Smuggling investigations are complex, and mistakes are often made.
	www.willdefend-drugcharges.com /PracticeAreas/Drug-Importation-Smuggling.asp (344 words)

	Illegal drug trade - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A mule is a lower-echelon criminal recruited by a smuggling organization to cross a border carrying drugs, or sometimes an unknowing person in whose bag or vehicle the drugs are planted, for the purpose of retrieving them elsewhere.
		The main organized drug cartels deal primarily with the most compact (thus easy to smuggle) and profitable substances cocaine, heroin, MDMA (ecstasy), and methamphetamine, and it is these that are the primary focus of the United States Drug Enforcement Administration.
		Legal drugs like tobacco can be the subject of smuggling and illegal trading if the price difference between the smuggled-from and the smuggled-to country are high enough to make it profitable.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Drug_smuggling (3151 words)

	Mexico's drug runners taking to the skies
		Drug agents say Sonora is the last vestige of the high-flying 1980s, the heyday of airborne drug smuggling.
		In Sonora and northern Sinaloa, airborne drug smuggling lives on because of rugged mountains, sparse population and proximity to the United States, officials say.
		The pressure is causing smugglers to switch to speedboats to move drugs along Sonora's western coast on the Gulf of California, Attorney General Daniel Francisco Cabeza de Vaca said in August.
	www.azcentral.com /arizonarepublic/news/articles/1120drugplanes.html (2194 words)

	washingtonpost.com: Special Report on Drug Issues Around the World
		Mexican drug cartels, long regarded as peddlers of cheap, low-grade heroin that accounted for only a tiny portion of the U.S. market, are now producing some of the world's most potent heroin and are seizing control of a rapidly growing share of the U.S. heroin business, according to Mexican and U.S. law enforcement officials.
		Mexican drug syndicates, which already have taken over many U.S. cocaine distribution routes once dominated by Colombian cartels, have substantially expanded their reach and now control virtually all heroin sales west of the Mississippi River, according to the U.S. anti-drug officials.
		DEA officials estimate that 42 percent of all the heroin smuggled into the United States is produced in Mexico -- 4.5 tons a year, compared to the six tons of Colombian heroin that reach the United States annually.
	washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/inatl/longterm/drugs (1002 words)

	Customs Service: Drug Interdiction Efforts (Briefing Report, 09/26/96,
		Customs' drug interdiction budget has averaged about $500 million a year for fiscal years 1990 to 1997.\2 In fiscal year 1995, its drug interdiction budget was about 38 percent and its drug investigation budget was about 3 percent of the federal drug control budget.
		For drug interdiction, the program is designed to estimate the number of drug smugglers entering the ports, thus providing Customs with a baseline from which to measure how effective its inspectors are at targeting drug smugglers at the ports.
		Drug interdiction activities at Miami International Airport passenger and cargo involve various key units and personnel that focus on the prevention of drug smuggling through the airport.
	www.druglibrary.org /schaffer/govpubs/gao/gao32.htm (12460 words)

	Drug smuggling behavior: a developmental smuggling model: Part 1. - Journal, Magazine, Article, Periodical
		Turco (1990) identified four factors to be considered in the preparation of psychological profiles: (1) the crime scene in its entirety; (2) knowledge of neurological behavior and dyscontrol syndrome; (3) a psychodynamic perspective; and (4) demographic material based on the population studies of perpetrators.
		Furthermore, the smuggling may involve a single individual purchasing contraband through his or her own resources, transporting it him or herself; and then either keeping it for personal use or selling it to friends.
		Therefore, the development of the smuggling model is distinguished from profiles of other criminal perpetrators (Singh, 1994; Douglas, Burgess, Burgess, Ressler, 1992) in that it must encompass the behaviors of solo smugglers, as well as smuggling corporations in which many individuals cooperate to commit a single crime.
	goliath.ecnext.com /coms2/summary_0199-1272269_ITM (891 words)

	Site for the book, Drugging America, which documents the arrogant and corrupt war on drugs.
		The issues of gross misconduct related to the drug environment are a part of a much broader pattern of corruption that is detailed in the various books written by former federal agent Rodney Stich in collaboration with a large number of other former government agents, and information provided by former drug smugglers and mafia figures.
		Drug smuggling by Dominicans and others in the New York area, and the retaliation against government agents who expose these crimes.
		Drugging America is a literal college course on understanding the inner secrets of the government’s arrogant and sham war on drugs.
	www.druggingamerica.com (2839 words)

	TOP SECRET CIA DRUG SMUGGLING OPERATIONS
		Pilots of the drug flights home in on the low frequency signals emitted by the beacons to reach their destination at Albrook Army Airfield in Panama.
		There the drugs are retrieved by boat and brought into the U.S. · Operation Whale Watch - Consists of using offshore oil drilling rigs as a cover for drug smuggling.
		Typically the heroin is smuggled aboard freighters and cruise liners heading from the U.S. Transshipment points in the U.S. include San Diego, San Francisco, Seattle and Los Angeles.
	www.wethepeople.la /drugs1.htm (540 words)

	Cocaine Importing Agency
		This evidence that the CIA engineered a legal exemption from requirements to report drug smuggling suggests not only that the CIA director was well aware of such activity on the part of CIA assets but that he actively sought to keep this information away from public and legal scrutiny.
		Discusses the history of CIA drug trafficking and the sad state of American "intelligence." Scott is persuasive and eloquent both in his elaboration of CIA involvement in the cocaine trade and his defense of Webb's article.
		CIA Unveils Ghetto Drugs for 1998: Satire from the Onion.
	www.csun.edu /CommunicationStudies/ben/news/cia (7989 words)

	Smuggling Defense Lawyers - Drug Trafficking Defense Attorneys
		Smuggling, act of bringing into or out of a country goods for which duty has not been paid; goods the importation or exportation of which is prohibited; or people who wish to cross a border illegally.
		The most frequent examples of smuggling involve individual travelers who fail to declare to customs officials merchandise on which an import duty is levied.
		The illegal drug trade has often been focused on the United States, most seriously with so-called rum-running during Prohibition (1920-1933) and with the smuggling of marijuana, heroin, and cocaine beginning in the 1960s.
	www.criminal-defense-lawyers.org /smuggling.htm (256 words)

	Worldandnation: Drug-smuggling pup reformed
		The canines, with bags of liquid heroin surgically sewn in their abdomens, were shipped to drug traffickers posing as dog trainers wanting Labrador and Rottweiler purebreds for dog shows, Colombia's national police said.
		Ten other suspected members of the drug ring were arrested last year in New York, Florida and North Carolina, and more than 52 pounds of heroin were seized in the two-year investigation, the DEA and Colombian authorities said.
		Today, she's being trained to be part of a small army of Colombian dogs that sniff out drugs, and her two surviving companions are police officers' pets, said Gabriel Jaime Gutierrez, a police spokesman in Medellin.
	www.sptimes.com /2006/02/03/Worldandnation/Drug_smuggling_pup_re.shtml (484 words)

	USATODAY.com - Drug-smuggling tunnel found under U.S.-Canada border (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Although numerous smuggling tunnels have been found on the U.S.-Mexican border, this was the first discovered along the border with Canada, McKay said.
		One was a woman who authorities said had 93 pounds of marijuana in her vehicle when she was stopped.
		The other was a man pulled over with 110 pounds of the drug.
	www.usatoday.com /news/nation/2005-07-21-drug-tunnel_x.htm (495 words)

	EurasiaNet Eurasia Insight - Anti-Drug Trafficking Effort Could Help Fight Terrorism
		Drug developers in Afghanistan are not only ruthless but industrious, according to Russian intelligence.
		According to the Tajik Ministry of Health, drug addicts in state institutions increased fourfold between 1996 and 2000; 74 percent of these reportedly use heroin.
		Peshkov claimed that 30 percent of drugs that Russian police seized were headed elsewhere.
	www.eurasianet.org /departments/insight/articles/eav092001a.shtml (996 words)

	Western officials: No drug smuggling in Pridnestrovie \| Pridnestrovie.net - Tiraspol, PMR: Pridnestrovskaia Moldavskaia ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Landlocked Pridnestrovie is not a center for drug smuggling.
		A stream of actual cases of busts and pictures of seized drugs is regularly made public by the border control's press office.
		It is not the first time that official government employees of Moldova have been caught smuggling anything from drugs to arms to the Middle East.
	pridnestrovie.net /drugtrade.html (818 words)

	NewsFromRussia.Com Three members of drug smuggling ring sentenced in Vietnam
		Three members of a drug smuggling ring were sentenced to death for smuggling heroin and opium into Vietnam from Laos, a court official said Thursday.
		The gang was convicted of smuggling 17.82 kilograms (39.29 pounds) of heroin and 34.65 kilograms (76.39 pounds) of opium from Laos into northern Nghe An province since 2002, and distributing the drugs across the country.
		Drugs are a greater security threat in Afghanistan than a Taliban resurgence, NATO's top operational commander said Thursday, despite a rise in attacks blamed on remnants of the hard-line Islamic regime and their al-Qaida allies.
	newsfromrussia.com /world/2005/12/15/69878.html (2520 words)

	Mule (smuggling) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A mule or courier is someone who smuggles something with him or her (as opposed to sending by mail, etc.) across a national border, including smuggling into and out of an international plane, especially a small amount, transported for a smuggling organization.
		Methods of smuggling include hiding the goods in a vehicle, luggage or clothes, strapping them to one's body, or using the body as container.
		With regard to traffic from South America to the US, the US Drug Enforcement Administration reports: "Unlike cocaine, heroin is often smuggled by people who swallow large numbers of small capsules (50-90), allowing them to transport up to 1.5 kilograms of heroin per courier."[2].
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Drug_mule (391 words)

	The Impact of NAFTA on Drug Smuggling (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		In a subsequent article on the merits of drug certification for Mexico, one former senior DEA official was quoted as saying that the Administration had given economic, trade, and political considerations precedence over drug enforcement.
		In fact,corruption of the Mexican authorities by the drug cartels is notorious.
		The political ties between the U.S. Trade Lobby and the Clinton Administration with the Salinas regime and the PRI oligarchy in Mexico was forged in spite of the knowledge of the association of the Mexican politicians with the drug lords.
	www.siliconv.com /trade/tradepapers/drugs.html (1392 words)

	CNN.com - China targets drug smuggling - August 27, 2001
		This cheap synthetic drug has already had a devastating impact in countries like Thailand, where it is considered worse than the heroin scourge ever was.
		The U.N. representative for drug and control, Sandro Calvari told CNN the Beijing drugs summit was "big news" as it was the first time the four countries considered action amongst themselves without international facilitation.
		He there already existed a four-step plan to combat the drugs problem, which included awareness of smuggling and drug taking, how to reduce demand, law enforcement and how illicit crops could be replace by other forms of agriculture.
	edition.cnn.com /2001/WORLD/asiapcf/east/08/27/china.drug (550 words)

	Drug Smuggling
		This story provides an excellent example of the way that drug smuggling fits into the larger context of immigration within the British Isles.
		In 2001, it was estimated that 65% of all drugs came from Jamaica.
		PBS is a news service in the United States who have produced a special report on drug smuggling.
	www.angelfire.com /indie/celtic/drugs.html (404 words)

	The CIA, the Contra's and drug smuggling from Latin America (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		While the Pastora drug ties have long been known, Hitz revealed that the CIA may have compounded the problem by putting a now-admitted drug operative -- known by his CIA pseudonym as "Ivan Gomez" -- in a supervisory position over Pastora.
		In January 1986, the Drug Enforcement Administration in Miami seized 414 pounds of cocaine concealed in a shipment of yucca that was going from a contra operative in Costa Rica to Ocean Hunter, Inc., a company where Vidal worked.
		Donaldo Frixone, who had a drug record in the Dominican Republic, was hired by the CIA to fly contra missions from 1983-85.
	flag.blackened.net /revolt/mexico/usa/cia_drugs.html (3677 words)

	Florida Drug Trafficking Defense Lawyer \| International Drug Smuggling Attorney Miami
		He limits his drug defense practice to around ten cases per year, including only cases involving large-scale international trafficking, importation, and distribution.
		Rubino’s drug smuggling cases often involve federal charges or federal appeals.
		However, a new type of drug case is emerging in the field of Internet crimes.
	www.frankrubino.com /PracticeAreas/Drug-Trafficking-Import.asp (347 words)

	CNN.com - Narcs nab drug-smuggling puppies - Feb 2, 2006
		Puppy smuggling is another take on the human "mule," or "swallower" in DEA parlance -- someone who ingests packets of drugs and transport them in their stomachs.
		"The organization's outrageous and heinous smuggling method of implanting heroin inside puppies is a true indication of the extent that drug dealers go to make their profit," said Special Agent in Charge John Gilbride in a written statement.
		The investigation began after agents learned of a cartel in Medellin, Colombia, that was smuggling drugs along the eastern seaboard from Miami, Florida, to New York City.
	www.cnn.com /2006/WORLD/americas/02/01/drug.pups/index.html (472 words)

	Top Russian Mafia Boss Jailed for Drug Smuggling - NEWS - MOSNEWS.COM (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The Moscow Regional court has sentenced a powerful Russian drug lord, who owned several international firms, to 21 years in prison for smuggling six tons of the narcotic mandrax to a number of countries in 2000.
		Smuggling 12 tons of banned sedatives from China to produce the new drug, Petrov stashed the store in a number of warehouses in the Moscow suburbs.
		The drug clan sent out its first shipment of mandrax in February of 1999, when a ship delivered 3 tons of the drug to Mozambique through a Romanian cover firm.
	www.mosnews.com /news/2004/09/08/mafiadrugs.shtml (872 words)

	Arrests made in drug-smuggling inside dogs - Crime & Punishment - MSNBC.com
		The Drug Enforcement Administration arrested 22 Colombian nationals for smuggling heroin into the United States via various methods, including surgically implanting the drug into puppies, officials said Wednesday.
		Drug smugglers often rely on couriers to swallow condoms full of drugs and one Colombian woman was once found with cocaine surgically implanted in her buttocks, Reuters reported.
		Wednesday’s arrests were the culmination of a two-year investigation that identified a drug trafficking organization based in Medellin, Colombia, whose distribution network reached from Miami to New York City, the DEA said.
	www.msnbc.msn.com /id/11132226 (444 words)

	The Seattle Times: Local News: 91 arrested in probe of drug smuggling
		They allegedly smuggled drugs in cereal boxes, in the false bottoms of water bottles, inside industrial rolls of cellophane and in special compartments welded beneath car manifolds.
		Despite their ingeniousness, 91 members of a ring suspected of smuggling heroin, cocaine and methamphetamine from Mexico into Washington state have been rounded up by a drug-enforcement task force, officials announced Friday.
		The raid was one of several coordinated by the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) and the Seattle Police Department.
	seattletimes.nwsource.com /html/localnews/2003052368_drugbust10m.html (546 words)

	Contra Drug Smuggling Documents
		Use the documents at The Contras, Cocaine, and Covert Operations: to investigate drug smuggling evidence against the Reagan-administration-supported contras in the 1980s.
		Although no direct connection could be made between Duran's smuggling activities and Chamorro, the relationship between the two men had been noted with interest by a Central American Station and the local DEA office.
		The article stated that a Colombian pilot had testified during the trial of a Medellin drug lord that he had flown arms to Contra forces in Central America and cocaine shipments to Florida and that Chamorro was part of this arms/drugs network.
	social.chass.ncsu.edu /slatta/hi216/documents/contradrugs.htm (2477 words)

	USATODAY.com - Australian woman gets 20 years for drug smuggling in Indonesia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — An Australian woman was convicted and sentenced to 20 years in prison Friday for smuggling nine pounds of marijuana onto Bali island, provoking shouts of "Liar!" from her mother.
		Schapelle Corby, 27, wept as the verdict was announced in a case that attracted enormous media interest in Australia, where many people believe her claims that the drugs were planted in her luggage.
		Her lawyers alleged the drugs were planted by airport baggage handlers in Australia as part of a drug-smuggling operation and that they ended up in Bali by mistake.
	www.usatoday.com /news/world/2005-05-26-indonesia-drug-trial_x.htm (639 words)

	Soldier Pleads Guilty to Drug Smuggling
		FORT BLISS, Texas - A U.S. soldier who was stationed in Colombia to help fight drug trafficking was sentenced to six years in prison after pleading guilty for his role in smuggling cocaine into the United States using military planes.
		He said he joined in the drug ring in part to help support his family and pay for costly medical treatments to help correct his daughter's debilitating foot problem.
		Rosas, who is scheduled to stand trial later this month, told investigators that he and Irizarry-Melendez were responsible for the drug smuggling, with the other two soldiers concentrating mostly on fronting money to buy the drugs.
	www.military.com /NewsContent/0,13319,77186,00.html?ESRC=topstories.RSS (545 words)

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