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NJ Dock Workers Charged With Conspiring to Traffic 2 Tons of Cocaine

Two New Jersey dock workers have been arrested for allegedly plotting to traffic more than 2 tons of cocaine into the United States. Dominic Guido, a longshoreman, and Robert Roselli, a dock worker at a private company, have been charged with conspiracy for allegedly planning to smuggle large shipments of cocaine into the...

Ohio to Execute Man for Killing Fellow Jail Inmate

COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Ohio plans to put a man to death Tuesday who killed a fellow Cincinnati jail inmate over the changing of a TV channel as he awaited sentencing for the aggravated murder of a fellow drug trafficker over stolen money, drugs and incriminating documents. Clarence Carter, 49, is to be executed by lethal...

Drug Catapult and 3 Other Drug-Smuggling Fails [VIDEO]

We have to give them points for trying. With the U.S.-Mexico border under close watch, some innovative -- if not entirely practical -- drug smugglers hit on a not-so-bright idea: using a giant catapult to fling the illegal goods into the States. The intrepid plan was foiled when the device was discovered by Mexican...

Report: Kosovan Leader Involved in Organ, Drug Trafficking

(Dec. 15) -- Kosovo's Prime Minister Hashim Thaci has been named in a Council of Europe report as the former "boss" of a "mafia-like" criminal network that trafficked heroin, weapons and organs extracted from Serb captives. The document also says that the U.S. and other Western nations were aware of Thaci's alleged crimes...

Investigation Begins Into Bodies Thought to Be Mexican Investigators

(Sept. 8) -- Two bodies found in Mexico's Tamaulipas state may be the state and local officials who were investigating the August massacre of 72 migrants. Jaime Suarez Roberto Vazquez, the deputy public investigator, and Juan Carlos Suarez Sanchez, secretary of public safety, have been missing since Aug. 24, according to...

Background on drug trafficking

The illegal drug trade is a global black market, dedicated to cultivation, manufacturing, distribution, and sale of drugs, which are subject to drug prohibition laws.

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