Sentences with phrase «drug mules»

Moved to try to tackle this problem «at source» by stopping these women becoming drug mules in the first place, he has helped develop and promote a video warning of the risks they face if they get involved in drug trafficking.

Colombia's drug cartels have resorted to «hiring» drug mules of the feathered variety.

Of Dreamers and Drug Mules: Rep. King on the DREAM Act Tampa Bay Times, July 26, 2013 «In a decade of research, Gonzales has found only a tiny percentage of undocumented immigrants got involved with crime, much less stayed involved with crime.

TRENTON, N.J. — He says she's a «greedy thug» who uses children as «drug mules.»

by Walter Chaw In Maria Full of Grace (Maria, llena eres de gracia), Maria (Catalina Sandino Moreno), to prepare for swallowing the horse - choker, heroin - filled prophylactics that Colombian drug mules ingest by the dozens, practices on a few large grapes (call it «Maria full of Grapes»), and in her resolute suffering, she heralds the arrival of an actor to be reckoned with.

Filmmaker Luc Besson knew that this percentage figure was inaccurate, yet plunged ahead with his inventive adventure, revolving around a naïve young American named Lucy (Scarlett Johansson) who gets tricked into delivering a mysterious metal briefcase to a Taiwanese crime boss, Mr. Jang (South Korean actor Choi Min Sik), and forced to become one of his drug mules.

Jang implants bags of the stuff inside Lucy and several other unwilling drug mules for travel, but the contents in Lucy's stomach leak, instantly giving her an acute awareness of her surroundings and the ability to fight like a trained assassin.

Twelve of those precious hours are devoted to flying from Taipei to Paris, where Professor Norman lives and where the other drug mules are converging.

«Lucy» is a combination of the title character's superhuman powers and a standard gangster melodrama, the former given life by a gorgeous series of psychedelic images and imaginative, fantasy scenes, while the latter exhibits groups of Taiwanese thugs with AK - 47's, a drug mob that kidnaps people and forces them to work as drug mules by implanting whole plastic bags of blue powder into their stomachs.

The charity felt this particular concern had been «partly addressed» by the new guidelines, but remained concerned that the sentences for «drug mules» may still be «lengthy».

A sleazy boyfriend gets her mixed up with Taipei gangsters who turn her into a drug mule, sewing a big bag of something purple called CPH4 into her stomach.

The boss then turns Lucy into a drug mule by surgically implanting the drugs in her lower abdomen.

There's no point naming any of the other major characters, as there really are no other characters, only types: the arrogant fat - cat drug dealer (Choi Min - Sik) who thinks he can control the short blond drug mule and learns the hard way that he can't; the brilliant, deep - voiced scientist (Morgan Freeman, who else?)

When tricked into making the delivery, Lucy finds the Korean mob headed by Jang to be a group of ruthless killers who implanted a bag of an experimental recreation blue crystal drugs in her intestines for her to be a drug mule.

Terrified out of her mind, Lucy is forced to become a drug mule, with a bag containing a highly potent synthetic substance called CPH4 sewn into her stomach.

Synopsis: When a boyfriend tricks Lucy (Scarlett Johansson) into delivering a briefcase to a supposed business contact, the once - carefree student is abducted by thugs who intend to turn her into a drug mule.

Lucy (Scarlett Johansson) is a ditsy American ex-pat in Taiwan, who can't get away fast enough from a bad news drug mule week - old boyfriend (Pilou Asbæk), asking her to deliver a locked attache case to a Mr. Jang (Min - sik Choi, South Korean actor).

Lucy (Scarlett Johansson) is roped into being a surgical drug mule by evil South Korean - in - Taiwan Jang (Choi).

PLOT: Lucy (Scarlett Johansson)-- a young student living in Taiwan — is coerced into becoming a drug mule by a ruthless gangster (Choi Min - sik).

Morgan Freeman is in negotiations for Luc Besson's new sci - fi thriller «Lucy», starring Scarlett Johansson as a drug mule who gains super powers from a powerful narcotic.

Two days ago, the incredible trailer for Luc Besson's Lucy was released, in which Johansson plays the titular role, a drug mule who turns into a metahuman with extended brain power after ingesting the substance she is carrying.

An unwilling drug mule develops superhuman abilities after the synthetic substance leaks into her system.

Lucy, the new film from the writer and director of Léon and The Fifth Element, is about a drug mule who gains incredible powers - including clairvoyance, telekinesis and the ability to completely block out emotion and pain - after a drug she is supposed to be transporting accidentally enters her system.

Scarlett Johansson plays a drug mule who gains super-powers in the trailer for «Lucy», the upcoming sci - fi action / thriller from Luc Besson.

Playing the title character, Scarlett unleashes all horror on a group of Taiwanese mobsters who kidnap her and turn her into a drug mule.

Set up by her boyfriend, Lucy (Johansson) is forced to become an unwilling drug mule when a dangerous Asian cartel surgically inserts a stash of a new, secret superdrug into her body.

In the upcoming «Lucy,» Scarlett plays «a drug mule who ingests some of her cargo and develops unusual superpowers.»

Another drug mule movie?

A drug mule said she tried to smuggle $ 12.6 m worth of cocaine into Australia because it was a chance to post selfies on Instagram during a free holiday.

With the Beast of Burden trailer, we see him taking on another intriguing role as a drug mule trying to leave the game.

Lucy (Scarlett Johansson), a woman living in Taipei, Taiwan, is forced to work as a drug mule for the mob.

The story follows a helpless drug mule who turns into an X-Men mutant when she inadvertently absorbs a mysterious narcotic which gives her access to 100 % of her brain

In order to help his father pay off debts to a crime lord, a first - time drug mule swallows several condoms full of heroin to sneak back through customs.

Forced into a shady drug deal by her unscrupulous boyfriend, Lucy soon finds herself in a dingy holding cell in Taipei with a dangerous and unstable new drug sewn into her stomach, forced into servitude as a drug mule by a Korean kingpin (Choi Min - sik of

Lucy Director: Luc Besson Starring: Scarlett Johansson Synopsis: A woman forced into being a drug mule ends up taking some of the drug, which accelerates her brain usage and makes her superhuman.

In Beast of Burden, Daniel Radcliffe plays pilot Sean Haggerty, a man at the edge of his rope as he agrees to become a drug mule.

When he fails to be chosen as a drug mule, he uses a police SWAT team to raid the home of one of the other drivers.

To be fair, equally scummy are the double - dealing drug kingpin (Ed Helms) who forces our antihero to turn from dealer into drug mule, and the strip - club owner (Ken Marino) who orders his dancers to prostitute themselves with customers.

Marston struck a chord with debut Maria Full of Grace, which played Sundance 12 years ago, giving a drug mule a face in performer Catalina Sandino Moreno.

Chit - chat with a teenage drug mule, a confused expression during a duologue, screaming in horror at a baby picture — no matter how you leave this movie, Phoenix will probably the best thing about it, an actor tearing up the screen and showing us every trick in the book.

James Luxford: The teaser has landed for Luc Besson's film about a drug mule who acquires extraordinary powers.

Nominated for best actress were Annette Bening as a 1930s London stage diva in Being Julia; Catalina Sandino Moreno as a Colombian woman who takes on a perilous job as a drug mule in Maria Full of Grace; Imelda Staunton as a housekeeper who moonlights as an abortion practitioner in 1950s Britain in Vera Drake; Hilary Swank as a boxer whose life turns tragic in Million Dollar Baby; and Kate Winslet as a woman who has erased memories of her ex-boyfriend in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.

We met at the ArcLight Hollywood for a press screening of «Lucy» — starring Scarlett Johansson as a woman who accesses unprecedented brain power after being turned into an unwitting drug mule — then chatted afterward over watermelon tequila cocktails across the street at The Hungry Cat.

Fuming at the Tiki Shack Bar over a rival's latest attempt to derail her career, Ronnie comes to the rescue of a girl being beaten by an angry thug, unaware that Antsy Carruth has stolen twenty - five grand from her drug mule ex-boyfriend, and hired enforcer Neon Polk has been sent to get the money back.

Desperate to find her missing brother in America, Makina, a young Mexican woman, agrees to cross the border as a drug mule.

The feathered drug mule is currently in the care of the Colombian ecological police unit.

You can read my death - defying exploits buying Street Fighter 2: The World Warrior, or getting literally shot at after buying Street Fighter 2 Turbo, this one is just about being a drug mule.

Stefan Ruiz (United States, b. 1966), Suspected Drug Mule, Bogotá airport, Colombia, 2013.

RT @ClaOntario: Judge strikes down mandatory minimum law in Toronto drug mule case https://t.co/tD6GOasMuw via @torontostar

Not exact matches

So prison populations soared, and mandatory sentences forced often reluctant judges to imprison first - time offenders, many of them lower - level «mules» who were merely carrying the drugs for the dealers, who were seldom touched.