Sentences with phrase «from drug trafficking»

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.

She also has Stanley a 3 year old Great Dane and Pitbull mix that she rescued as a puppy from a drug trafficking ring in Atlanta, GA..

I am drawing my example from drug trafficking in particular.

who commended his men for the arrest, stated that the huge profit derived from drug trafficking had made it a top priority for drug cartels to be financially incapacitated.

Revenues from drug trafficking in Miami are greater than those from tourism, exports, health care and all other legitimate businesses combined.

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

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.

Not exact matches

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.

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.

«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.»

More common and larger - scale cyber-attacks (from Sony pictures to Spanish renewable energy companies) are yet another example of this unprecedented «communication» flow; just as growth of the dark web has allowed for more effective connections in illegal activities — drug trade, human trafficking, and the like.

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.»

The «modern technology services» discussed in the report point to cryptocurrencies and their usage to launder money derived from the illicit trade of firearms, drugs, human trafficking, and other organized crime.

Mercy Canada is a non-profit residential home for young women, ages 19 - 28, from diverse socio - economic situations, struggling with life - controlling issues such as drug & alcohol abuse, physical & sexual abuse, human trafficking, eating disorders, self - harm, depression, and unplanned pregnancy.

And they've found that Oklahoma law enforcement agencies focus their efforts on the routes where cash from drug transactions often appear — instead of routes where people traffic the drugs themselves.

From a driver who survived when her car (totaled) was pushed across 4 lanes of rush hour traffic by a driver on a marijuana high, I applaud legislation to make this drug hard to get.

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.

The following items were taken from Orland Park police reports: A 23 - year - old Orland Park man was charged with illegal transportation of alcohol and violating local ordinances against cannabis possession and drug paraphernalia possession after a half - empty bottle of Jack Daniels, 5.1 grams of marijuana and a glass marijuana pipe were discovered during a May 18 traffic stop.

Consequently, drugs may be more easily shipped from Venezuela along the major trafficking routes to European and U.S. markets.

New York authorities indicted 29 people on drug - trafficking charges, in a case that included a distribution pipeline of heroin and the prescription drug Oxycodone from New York City to Rockland County.

Upon questioning, the suspect who hails from Kwara State, explained that poverty led her into drug trafficking.

NACOB as part of its strategies to intensify the advocacy campaign against drug abuse and trafficking is calling on the youth to refrain from engaging in acts that would jeopardize their future.

As when Albany Mayor Jerry Jennings obtained federal drug crime fighting assistance from the High Impact Drug Trafficking Area (HIDTA) program — but at a civic forum referred to the acronym as standing for «Highway Interstate Drug Trafficking Area&raqdrug crime fighting assistance from the High Impact Drug Trafficking Area (HIDTA) program — but at a civic forum referred to the acronym as standing for «Highway Interstate Drug Trafficking Area&raqDrug Trafficking Area (HIDTA) program — but at a civic forum referred to the acronym as standing for «Highway Interstate Drug Trafficking Area&raqDrug Trafficking Area».

Eight defendants were arraigned in Nassau County Court as part of a 21 - count indictment charging 17 defendants with crimes ranging from murder and drug trafficking to conspiracy and weapons possession.

BY NATHAN RILEY Outraged that Mayor Bill de Blasio continues to sit on a city health department study into the efficacy of establishing safe places for drug users to pursue their high — facilities that are in place all over Europe with proven track records of reducing fatal overdoses — protestors sat down in the middle of Broadway across from City Hall bringing downtown traffic to a halt.

Nassau County District Attorney Madeline Singas says the 17 face charges ranging from murder, conspiracy to commit murder, and drug trafficking.

New York authorities on Wedneesday indicted 29 people on drug - trafficking charges, in a case that included a distribution pipeline s of heroin and the prescription drug Oxycodone from New York City to Rockland County.

JAMESTOWN - An ongoing investigation into the sales and trafficking of illegal narcotics led investigators from Jamestown Metro Drug Task Force and NYSP CNET to executive a search warrant Wednesday at 248 Broadhead Ave. Inside the upper apartment... [Read more...]

Katko's other awards earned throughout his career include the Distinguished Service Award in 1997 for his work in a international drug trafficking investigation and the Director's Commendation from FBI Director Robert Mueller in 2002 for prosecuting Schenectady police officers in a police corruption case.

Percoco's attorney said that the accusations are baseless, and from less than credible sources ------------------------------------- State Police arrested 55 - year - old Donald Moshier of Lisle, for operating a motor vehicle while ability impaired by drugs, resisting arrest, menacing, unlawful possession of marihuana and several other traffic offenses.

Surprisingly, drug dealing activities were also described as loose; virtually subjected to no supervision from the clan, narcotic trafficking was left to the entrepreneurial skills of individual members.

After controlling for age, race, sex, marital status, education, drug use, and smoking, compared to people who did not binge drink, people who drank at the various binge levels were much more likely to experience an alcohol - related emergency department visit; have an alcohol use disorder; be injured because of drinking; be arrested or have legal problems resulting from alcohol use; or be the driver in an alcohol - related traffic crash.

Marijuana - associated traffic accidents and fatalities have also increased rapidly in states where this drug has been legalized, with THC prevalence among U.S. weekend nighttime drivers increasing from 8.6 % in 2007 to 12.6 % in 2013 and 2014.

Distinct Subcellular Trafficking Resulting from Monomeric vs Multimeric Targeting to Endothelial ICAM - 1: Implications for Drug Delivery.

The researchers screened 480 natural compounds and identified leelamine, derived from the bark of pine trees, as a drug that can cause this major traffic jam in the cancer cell's circuitry.

«This is very consistent with data from the [U.S.] Drug Enforcement Administration that shows a great increase in the trafficking and availability of synthetic opioids like illicit fentanyl over the past few years,» said lead researcher Christopher Jones, of the U.S. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration.

This is obviously not meant to be an uplifting sort of film, since these people from the cartel are still running around trafficking drugs and bribing agents to help get the drugs in the country easily.

That Collateral — a four - part Netflix drama involving the struggles of migrants seeking asylum, the evils of human trafficking, perfidious intelligence agencies, women's sexual victimization, drug - dealers and more — succeeds in achieving a certain suspense is no small miracle, given the confusion resulting from its hugely overcrowded script.

As can be seen from the expletive - ridden trailer, the boys have a new drug trafficking case to crack that offers them plenty of new opportunities to make fools of themselves in and in most instances these opportunities result in some good laughs.

The trailer for Sicario (Spanish for hitman) from director Denis Villeneuve (Enemy, Prisoners) is here and it's a tense two minutes of action and drama with Golden Globe winner Emily Blunt (Into the Woods, The Young Victoria) and Oscar winner Benicio Del Toro (Traffic, 21 Grams) fighting the war on drugs through a backdoor loophole that allows for a clandestine mission to apprehend a Mexican drug lord.

The same questions could be asked about Tim Foley, an Arizona - based man who essentially protects the border from illegal immigrants and drug trafficking on his own.

Either way, Scott has a talented cast who has the benefit of Cormac McCarthy's tense script to work from, one that centers on a lawyer (Fassbender) who gets in over his head in a drug trafficking attempt gone awry.

Javier Bardem and Michael Fassbender discuss a possible rat in their drug trafficking operation in this scene from Ridley Scott's drama.

Kid Cannabis sees Brown play Nate Norman, a high - school dropout from Idaho who builds a multi-million empire and a rivalry with various drug lords by trafficking marijuana across the US / Canada border.

In the 1960s and early 1970s, large amounts of heroin had been trafficked into the United States from France, who refined opium obtained from Turkey into the addictive, potentially deadly drug.

Director Matthew Heineman's brilliant, incredible, dark, and all - too - current documentary Cartel Land digs deep into the source of the drug trafficking across the border from Mexico into the U.S., and what it finds is a bleak and corrupt situation in Mexico from which many of these issues stem.

Is this movie from the director of Prisoners and Enemy a visceral and gruesome look into the world of drug trafficking worth checking out in theaters, or would you be better off just waiting to rent it?

The story had me from the very start as I have always had an interest in government conspiracies and cover ups and knew a thing or two about the 1980s CIA / Contra drug trafficking affair.

He was editor of the Insight Team and co-authored eight non-fiction books covering a spectrum from war to espionage, terrorism to international drug trafficking.

Salem's set for middle - and high - school students takes a regional approach to describing various types of conflicts, from border skirmishes to drug trafficking.