Sentences with phrase «drug trafficking organizations»

According to the US Agency, throughout Africa drug trafficking organizations use corruption of government officials as a key tactic for carrying out their activity.

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

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.

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.

Atlas are currently in relegation trouble in Liga MX and are without a win in six games in all competitions, following an Apertura season plagued by injuries and captain Rafa Marquez being sidelined due to allegations from the U.S. government linking him to a drug trafficking organization.

But after being sanctioned by the U.S. Treasury last August after a multiyear investigation of the drug trafficking organization, that seems highly unlikely to happen.

Four people have pleaded guilty in what authorities are calling a «large drug trafficking organization operating out of Lockport.»

According to KRGV, the man received $ 5,000 from a drug trafficking organization for confidential information regarding a person being considered as a driver for the drug trafficking organization.

Not exact matches

The purported cooperation, some details of which were revealed by a Sinaloa cartel figure on trial in the US, reached a peak in the late 2000s, a period when the Sinaloa cartel ascended to primacy among Mexican drug - trafficking organizations.

Joaquín «El Chapo» Guzmán's Sinaloa cartel is arguably the most powerful drug - trafficking organization in the Western Hemisphere — and in the world.

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.»

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.

Mexican drug - trafficking organizations maintain heavy influence in broad swaths of the US — particularly Southern California, the Northeast, along the southern border, and in South Florida — and they continue to expand, according to the Drug Enforcement Administration's 2017 National Drug Threat Assessdrug - trafficking organizations maintain heavy influence in broad swaths of the US — particularly Southern California, the Northeast, along the southern border, and in South Florida — and they continue to expand, according to the Drug Enforcement Administration's 2017 National Drug Threat AssessDrug Enforcement Administration's 2017 National Drug Threat AssessDrug Threat Assessment

However, some analysts have questioned the nature of the links between individuals apprehended in the US and Mexican drug - trafficking organizations in Mexico.

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.»

«If they don't acquiesce to the prices of the major drug - trafficking organizations, they're going to move on, and there's always somebody else that they can buy it from.»

As the BBC put it in 2014, «the Russian mafia is believed to control some prime real estate in Panama City while the Sinaloa Cartel — perhaps the most powerful drug - trafficking organization in the world — brings its cocaine from Colombia via Panama on its route north.»

Middle Eastern transnational criminal organizations typically engage in automobile theft, financial fraud, money laundering, interstate transportation of stolen property, smuggling, drug trafficking, document fraud, health care fraud, identity fraud, cigarette smuggling, trademark counterfeiting and sales of counterfeit goods, and the theft and redistribution of infant formula.

But it takes major regional organization to keep enough product flowing in and out of a city to make it a «High Impact Drug Trafficking Area».

Smashing the O - Line (1960) follows two reporters» descent into an unsavory organization of drug and human trafficking.

Until July 2012 Brazilian legislation considered just drug trafficking, terrorism, illegal trade of weapons, kidnapping, corruption, financial crimes and criminal organizations as predicate offenses for the crime of money laundering.

Mr. Rice has defended clients charged in a broad range of cases including conspiracy, drug trafficking, fraud, money laundering, criminal organization offences, homicide and regulatory offences.

High rates of joblessness trigger other neighborhood problems that undermine social organization, ranging from crime, gang violence, and drug trafficking to family breakups and problems in the organization of family life.