The Biden administration is expanding efforts to surveil and intercept Iranian weapons being smuggled to Yemen, where Houthi militants have staged a deadly campaign of violence against commercial shipping that has proved resilient to six weeks of military strikes, said U.S. officials familiar with the matter. The initiative seeks to map seafaring routes used by … Read more
Saudi Arabia’s first alcohol store has opened in the diplomatic quarter of its capital Riyadh, accessible to non-Muslim diplomats. While it only affects a select group, it’s a big change for the highly conservative Muslim kingdom, where alcohol has been banned since 1952 after a Saudi prince murdered a British diplomat in a drunken rage. … Read more
A man accused by police in India of helping smuggle a family of four through Canada just before they froze to death on the Manitoba border with the United States has been found living freely in a suburb outside Toronto, an investigation by CBC’s The Fifth Estate has found. Indian police allege Fenil Patel was … Read more
“Cocaine Bear” producers might have a sequel … ’cause a man was allegedly caught using another creature to smuggle blow — and underwater sequences are all the rage. Zacharie Scott was arrested at John F. Kennedy Airport International Airport in NYC Friday for allegedly attempting to smuggle coke inside bags of frozen jumbo shrimp. The … Read more
LONDON — A trucking company boss who claimed he thought he was smuggling booze into Britain was sentenced Thursday to seven years in prison for his role in a human trafficking ring in which 39 Vietnamese migrants suffocated in a cargo container in 2019. Caolan Gormley was the last of 11 people to be convicted … Read more
German police have arrested two men following raids targeting organized migrant-smuggling in the country’s capital and the northern state of Lower Saxony ByThe Associated Press November 23, 2023, 10:05 AM CORRECTS CAPTION INFORMATION – Police officers search a car during a raid in Garbsen, Germany, Thursday, Nov. 23, 2023. German police arrested two men Thursday … Read more
Police in El Salvador have arrested 10 people accused of operating a migrant smuggling ring ByThe Associated Press November 14, 2023, 5:00 PM FILE – Migrants from El Salvador wait to be attended by Salvadoran migration authorities in La Hachadura, El Salvador, Wednesday, Oct. 31, 2018. Police in El Salvador on Tuesday, Nov. 14, 2023, … Read more
Eight people were killed when a driver suspected of human smuggling tried to evade authorities and crashed head-on into another vehicle, the Texas Department of Public Safety said Wednesday. The crash occurred around 6:30 a.m. on U.S. Highway 57 near Batesville, about 83 miles southwest of San Antonio. The driver, 21, who was in a … Read more
BERLIN — Germany announced Wednesday it will increase police patrols along “smuggling routes” on the border with Poland and the Czech Republic in an effort to prevent more migrants from entering the country. The new measures would begin immediately, said Interior Minister Nancy Faeser. The announcement came a day after police raids in Germany found … Read more
More than 350 German federal police have searched premises across the country in connection with the smuggling of migrants ByThe Associated Press September 26, 2023, 2:39 AM BERLIN — More than 350 German federal police searched premises across the country early Tuesday in connection with smuggling of migrants early on Tuesday. The focus of the … Read more