Sentences with phrase «a drug trafficking»

But most banks don't see those rules as a shield against charges that could include aiding drug trafficking.

«The magnificent work of the security forces and bodies in the fight against drug trafficking makes it possible for numerous seizures to take place,» Interior Minister Juan Ignacio Zoido said.

The Trump administration has cited criminal activity such as human smuggling and drug trafficking as reasons to crack down on the border, but Trump himself has appeared preoccupied with a «caravan» of central American migrants, some of whom intended to travel through Mexico to the US border and either seek asylum or cross the border undetected.

Chris Gibson, executive director of the federally funded Oregon - Idaho High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area program, said the distinction matters less than the fact that marijuana continues to leave Oregon on planes, trains and automobiles, and through the mail.

The region's violence is in large part driven by drug trafficking and organized crime — in Mexico, fragmentation of criminal groups has stoked more bloodshed in recent months.

And it means replacing talk of a wall with joint efforts against the common threats of drug trafficking, transnational crime, terrorism, natural disasters, and cyber hacks.

The men were arrested in 2010 as part of an operation to dismantle a drug trafficking network in Abitibi - Temiscamingue, in western Quebec.

The three escaped prisoners were accused of being the leaders of a drug trafficking network linked to the Hells Angels.

The fugitives were also facing charges of drug trafficking, conspiracy, and other crimes.

U.S. authorities said Thursday they have shut down the successor website to Silk Road, an underground online drug marketplace, and charged its alleged operator with conspiracy to commit drug trafficking, computer hacking, money laundering and other crimes.

Chapo Isidro is recognized by the US government as the alleged leader of the Meza Flores drug trafficking organization based in Sinaloa state, Mexico.

The indictment alleges that Phantom Secure has generated around $ 80 million in annual revenues since 2008 and «facilitated drug trafficking, obstruction of justice, and violent crime around the world.»

When cocaine routes changed from the Caribbean to land routes in Mexico in the late 1990s, the Gulf Cartel transformed into a drug trafficking organization by utilizing the networks they had created earlier.

But these forces were not used at that time and were instead sent to northern Mexico to conduct operations against drug trafficking when the Mexican government started to work more closely with the United States to fight the so - called war on drugs.

The Meza Flores network was formally classified as a Drug Trafficking Organization (DTO) by the US Treasury Department in 2013.

The Zetas started to consolidate power and control over drug trafficking operations in Nuevo Laredo under the leadership of Heriberto Lazcano, alias «El Lazca» or «Z3.»

Yepez, himself known as «El Marro,» or «The Mallet,» is wanted by federal authorities and suspected of crimes ranging from drug trafficking to fuel theft.

«He's considered one of the Mexican godfathers of drug trafficking.

By 2010, the Zetas wanted to control more of the drug trafficking in Tamaulipas.

Vincent Ramos, the CEO of the company, along with four associates were accused on Thursday by the Department of Justice (DOJ) of «knowingly and intentionally conspiring with criminal organizations by providing them with the technological tools to evade law enforcement and obstruct justice while committing transnational drug trafficking.»

They were now dedicated to drug trafficking at a time when cocaine was a very lucrative business.

The CPOT list «is a multiagency target list of the «command and control» elements of the most prolific international drug trafficking and money laundering organizations,» according to the Justice Department.

Trump has sanctioned dozens of Venezuelan officials, including government ministers and military officers, since he took office — including the vice president, who was accused of involvement in international drug trafficking, and President Nicolas Maduro himself, whom the Trump administration has labeled a «dictator.»

The system — the first time ever that a state has put itself in charge of the production and distribution of marijuana — is designed to undercut lucrative and illegal drugs trafficking.

The report depicts shifts in cartel presence in the US — most notably the disappearance of the Knights Templar, which «is still regarded as a viable [transnational criminal organization] in Mexico,» though the «DEA assesses it does not have a major impact on the drug trafficking landscape within the United States.»

The commission that is setting up the system in Massachusetts recently passed new rules that bar anyone with a felony drug trafficking conviction from getting licensed by the state to cultivate or sell legal marijuana.

Argentina has also increased security operations at the northern port of Rosario, the country's third - largest port that is believed to be a major hub for drug trafficking and has seen high levels of drug - related violence in recent years.

«We truly despise the carrot - and - stick approach,» Jia said in a veiled swipe at Trump's threats to cut aid or impose tariffs on Latin American nations that do not do more to further efforts to create more US jobs and combat drug trafficking.

Gowdy is also a former federal prosecutor who boasts of his work on drug trafficking, bank robberies and child pornography cases.

Gorsuch's commitments to interpreting the law as «the words on the paper say» and not over-criminalizing innocent conduct were on full display in a 2015 decision in which he used «plain old grade school grammar» to determine the legal penalties imposed on defendants accused of using a firearm «during and in relation to any crime of violence of drug trafficking crime.»

Ross Ulbricht, convicted ringleader of the drug trafficking website Silk Road, is appealing his conviction and lifetime sentence.

Ross Ulbricht, 30, was convicted on all seven counts he faced by a federal jury in Manhattan, following a closely - watched trial that spilled out of U.S. investigations into the use of the digital currency bitcoin for drug trafficking and other crimes.

WASHINGTON (AP)-- The Justice Department is forming a team of prosecutors to investigate drug trafficking and money laundering linked to Iranian - backed Hezbollah militant movement, Attorney General Jeff Sessions said Thursday.

After less than a day of deliberations, the jury of six men and six women found Ulbricht guilty of charges including drug trafficking, and conspiracies to commit money laundering and computer hacking.

He recalled that in the one case that perhaps came closest — the show - trial conviction of several influential military and intelligence officers for drug trafficking and other crimes in 1989 — there was even some circumstantial evidence that the illicit activities had been tolerated by superiors.

However, the prosecutor, US attorney Serrin Turner, said he found little to no distinction between the actions of both Shrem and Faiella, arguing that both crimes led to serious drug trafficking; that he was «moving drug money - not in the traditional way - online - but moving it nevertheless».

This arrangement — which prosecutors have admitted to in court — raises serious questions about the government's use of informants and the often blurry methods it uses to combat drug trafficking syndicates.

This unnamed witness, along with someone named Marc Emerson who was alleged to be involved in the drug trafficking before dying due to an overdose in June 2017, were customers of Phantom Secure, and used the company's devices to conduct their transnational drug trafficking activity, the complaint adds.

Perhaps that's one reason the Sinaloa cartel has the reputation for being focused more on the business of drug trafficking and less on violence than rival cartels.

On the contrary, «drug dealers are among the most repulsive human being that can be encountered,» Rakoff said, adding that Congress has said for many years «that we can't end drug trafficking without getting into the economics of it».

«Criminals use U.S. shell companies to commit financial fraud, drug trafficking, even terrorist financing, in part because our states don't require anyone to name the owners of the companies they form,» Levin said in an email to Reuters.

European regulators have already had bitcoin in their sights for a long time, linking it to terror financing, drug trafficking, tax avoidance and other nefarious ventures.

He said the bank is concerned bitcoin might be used for fraud or other illegal activities like terrorism, money laundering, prostitution, drug trafficking.

Federal authorities have charged 19 people for their alleged roles in a drug trafficking organization that moved heroin and cocaine through the New Haven area.

Howard Buffett, the son of the world's third - richest man, Warren Buffett, compiled his experiences as a volunteer sheriff in a recently released book about drug trafficking and President Donald Trump's proposed Mexico border wall.

The association names illegal fundraising among the ranks of criminal activities, such as money laundering, drug trafficking, and smuggling, that it links to virtual currency.

Citizens often help to solve cases, ranging from drug trafficking to threats to public figures.

«The Silk Road underground website was the global venue for drug trafficking and money laundering, producing millions in dirty profits.

Three suspects in a Sitka shooting in March month are among the seven people who have been indicted on federal drug trafficking and firearms charges.

Widespread cargo theft has also given rise to concomitant offenses such as robbery, kidnapping, homicide, interstate transportation of stolen motor vehicles, drug trafficking, health care fraud, money laundering and insurance fraud.