An Armenian immigrant was sentenced Friday to 22 years in prison for plotting to sell anti-aircraft missiles and other military weapons from the former Soviet Union to an FBI informant.
A former jail guard in Arkansas has been sentenced to 28 years in prison for sneaking syringes, marijuana and cell phones to inmates by hiding the items in food.
Russian news agencies are quoting a senior prosecutor as saying that his office has exposed an attempt by military officers to smuggle $18 million worth of stolen Russian weapons to China.
Egyptian police arrested 40 suspected smugglers and seized goods in a new crackdown on smuggling into the Hamas-run Gaza Strip, an Egyptian security official said Thursday.
A Ghanaian man was sentenced to five years in prison Thursday after pleading guilty to smuggling East African economic refugees into the United States via Latin America.
An Australian teacher who allegedly stuffed his luggage with 2,000-year old animal mummies and religious figurines wrapped as gifts was arrested Wednesday and charged with smuggling antiquities, an Egyptian airport security official said.
A South African man accused of attempting to smuggle hundreds of rare chameleons, snakes, lizards and frogs out of Madagascar inside his jacket and luggage was convicted Tuesday and sentenced to a year in jail.
Federal authorities say six people have been arrested on charges of conspiring to smuggle the ivory of African elephants into the United States.
Federal agents say a Canadian trucker was caught trying to smuggle $2 million of U.S. cash into the United States.
On the night Lazaro Mendez got an alert that his boat had been stolen from the Florida Keys, he was swept up in a new chapter of the Cuban boat people drama.
Switzerland's top prosecutor charged 10 people with laundering more than $1 billion dollars during a decade-long mafia cigarette smuggling operation, Swiss authorities said Monday.
A Chinese woman was sentenced Friday to a year and a day in federal prison for seeking to buy military equipment, used to gauge the power of nuclear explosions, for export to China.
The House on Wednesday moved to crack down on the contraband cigarette sales that drain federal, state and local treasuries of billions while providing a lucrative source of income for criminals.
A federal grand jury has indicted two South Dakota men on charges of smuggling African leopard hides and a skull into the United States.
Border Patrol agents have arrested 49 alleged illegal immigrants who were discovered being smuggled into the U.S. inside the tank of a water truck.
Gus Dominguez negotiated the contract for the first Cuban player to defect to the United States. He opened his home to prospects fresh from the communist island and taught them about bank accounts.
Israel's army says it shot and killed a suspected smuggler in a rare incident on the frontier with Syria.
The founder of a Russian company involved in trade with Iran has been charged with trying to smuggle a metal that can be used for weapons of mass destruction or delivery systems to the Islamic republic, prosecutors said Thursday.
It might have looked like easy money to O'Hare International Airport worker Riad Skaff: $26,500 to help smuggle night-vision goggles, rifle scopes and cash aboard Paris-bound jets.
Djibouti, Eritrea, Somalia and Sudan are among "special interest" countries identified by the U.S. government as sponsors or supporters of terrorism.
The intercepted e-mail was alarmingly matter-of-fact for anyone worried about a new terror attack: "getting into U.S is no problem at all. thats what i do best."
A federal jury found a Bahamian fishing boat captain guilty of second-degree murder in the drowning of three illegal immigrants he was trying to smuggle into the United States.
Police across Europe on Monday detained 75 people suspected of funneling illegal immigrants — mainly Iraqi Kurds — into northern Europe, French officials said.
Smugglers fleeing from Cuba's Coast Guard overturned a boat loaded with U.S.-bound migrants to distract pursuers, killing a woman and an 11-year-old boy, Cuba reported Wednesday.
A Chinese citizen has pleaded guilty in San Diego to trying to smuggle military-grade sensors to her homeland.
Tortoises are being smuggled from Pakistan's border areas with Afghanistan to Karachi for onward smuggling overseas.
SOMETHING fishy appears to be going on in the world of reptile trading following the arrest of a man at Sydney Airport for allegedly trying to smuggle 44 reptiles out of the country.
A 66-year-old passenger who arrived at Barcelona Airport in a wheelchair and with a leg cast made entirely of cocaine has been arrested as he tried to get through Spanish customs.
A Chilean man with a broken leg was arrested at Barcelona airport after his "cast" was found to be made of cocaine not plaster, Spanish police say. The 66-year-old carried six cans of beer and two hollowed-out stools that also contained cocaine, they add.
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A Christian Democrat Union politician has been arrested for smuggling heroin, party colleagues confirmed on Saturday.
A US gun shop owner is being charged with supplying guns to Mexican Drug Cartels.
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It was a beer run on the high seas. Brunei's customs officers arrested two men who tried to smuggle 1,382 cans of contraband beer by boat into the Muslim-majority country, a news report said.
Customs officers say they have managed to stop 44 native reptiles, including a rare Albino carpet python, from being smuggled out of the country.
Instead, the Palestinians' fury is directed at the Egyptian government, which in the wake of this winter's Israeli offensive has cracked down on the Gaza tunnel trade, choking the flow of goods.
Mexican police in the port city of Mazanillo have seized a ute that had bumpers and body panels made from cocaine coated in fibreglass.
"Iran is responsible for an attempt last week to funnel millions of dollars to Hamas in the Gaza Strip by way of Egypt, the Egyptian paper Al-Ahram reported on Saturday.
From the live snakes that smugglers stuff with packets of cocaine to the white tigers drug lords keep as exotic pets, rare animals are being increasingly sucked into Mexico's deadly narcotics trade.
LAREDO — A men's club manager accused of trying to smuggle ammunition into Mexico inside a hidden vehicle compartment has pleaded guilty to a federal charge.
THE soldier who stirred a hornet's nest by accusing [Philippines] Department of Justice officials of bribery in the so-called "Alabang Boys" case could have been a millionaire by now.
The 23-year-old man of Meadow Heights in suburban Melbourne had just landed at Melbourne Airport on Sunday after a flight from Dubai when customs and border control officers stopped him and searched his bags.
Australian Customs has foiled a Melbourne man's attempt to strap smuggle two live pigeons to his legs and smuggle them from Dubai.
Prisons are set to introduce bottom scanners in an attempt to stop prisoners smuggling mobile phones into jail.
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert threatened "harsh and disproportionate" retaliation after Gaza militants fired several rockets and mortar shells into southern Israel on Sunday, wounding three.
"Israel is closely tracking an Iranian freighter believed to be carrying weaponry for Hamas that is currently docked in the Red Sea outside the Suez Canal, after Egypt refused to permit it to cross the waterway to the Mediterranean.
A new trade in parrot heads and tail feathers is adding to the pressure on the world's wild population of African Grey Parrots, which is confined to the tropical forest area of West and Central Africa.
A Texas death row inmate at the center of a months long investigation of cell phone smuggling within the prison system has been moved to a psychiatric unit after apparently trying to kill himself a second time, an official said Friday.
The Gaza Strip's tunnel smugglers are back in business, pumping gasoline and dragging cartons of cigarettes under the Egyptian border through dozens of passages that survived Israel's three-week military offensive.