Sentences with phrase «illegal trafficking in»

Jim Puckett from the U.S. - based NGO Basel Action Network, which tracks illegal trafficking in e-waste, said Indonesian authorities recently discovered a shipment of nine 40 - foot shipping containers of e-waste that had been sent from the U.S. state of Massachusetts.

In an effort to crackdown on illegal trafficking in looted antiquities, and to protect German national heritage, the law introduces new import and export restrictions.

In real life, the mobsters had reasons to resent White Anglo - Saxon Protestants and the Klansmen hated Catholics and immigrants almost as much as blacks, but the flashpoint was illegal trafficking in booze.

[206] These arrests came thirteen years after Rees» premises were raided under Operation Nigeria, during which large amounts of evidence indicating widespread illegal trafficking in confidential information was seized by the Metropolitan Police Service.

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The FCC plans to further consider making illegal traffic prioritization of any kind in the days to come.

In 2012, a journalist used Palantir software to investigate illegal human tissue trafficking.

ROME (AP)-- Italian authorities detained 38 people in a crackdown on a migrant trafficking ring that used a Rome cosmetics shop as a base for illegal financial transactions, officials said Monday.

Tree — who said the policy change restored a price support for growers by reintroducing a «federal risk premium» — told Business Insider that while consumers in states were marijuana was legal were probably used to a high - quality and tested product, he suspected cracking down on legal marijuana production and sales would incentivize trafficking of lower - quality marijuana to states where the drug is still illegal.

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.

Go inside a fascinating and disturbing crime story, set in one of the most lawless places on earth: our oceans, where perpetrators traffic in an illegal product and front - line workers are modern - day slaves.

Martin Schulz, candidate for the Germany Chancellorship has reiterated that there's need to crackdown on human trafficking and smugglers in a bid to stop illegal migration.

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.

«The illegal products being distributed in Colorado are being trafficked across state lines thereby injuring neighboring states like Oklahoma and Nebraska.

The paramount crime issue in the source zone is the production of illicit narcotics, followed by money laundering, alien smuggling, illegal weapons trafficking, and human trafficking.

On Thursday, he was found guilty of insulting religious believers and inciting hatred, as well as of «illegal trafficking of special technical equipment» when a pen with a hidden camera was discovered in his home.

Sex trafficking is the fastest growing illegal trade in the country, and is expected to surpass drug trafficking in the next two years.

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... Spend their whole college career learning a zone that's illegal in the NBA and how to iso drive into traffic.

I wish it were illegal in the US.I spanked my son once for running out in traffic.

Nearly three - dozen organized crime members were busted by federal authorities in Manhattan for an odd mishmash of crimes — trafficking 5 tons of stolen chocolate as well as hordes of illegal cigarettes.

There is an important bill grinding its way through the House and the Senate that seeks a technical advantage in stopping the illegal international drug trafficking of fentanyl, a synthetic opioid invented in the 1960s.

Americans for Responsible Solutions advocates for barring people with domestic abuse convictions from buying firearms, for hardening penalties for illegal gun trafficking, federally funding gun violence research and for expanding and improving the national background check system, in order to cover weapons bought on the internet or at gun shows.

Also addressing the conference, head of the Metropolitan police Sir Ian Blair said the availability of illegal firearms could be blamed in part on Lithuanian gangs trafficking guns into Britain.

Allowing cows to move within the residential areas atimes obstructing traffic should become illegal in this modern age.

Governor Andrew M. Cuomo announced Monday that the new Cigarette Strike Force targeting illegal tobacco trafficking and sales has already seized nearly $ 1.7 million in cash and contraband that includes 2.7 million cigarettes and cigars in its first six months.

BASC Council member Peter Glenser, a barrister practicing in this area of the law, said; «BASC supports efforts to combat illegal trafficking of firearms, but this is a complex area of the law.

While it affirms the stands of the government and people of the state of Libya against these inhuman actions, he said the Ministry has for many years advocated for effective policies in dealing with these phenomena by supporting institutional capacity - building and enterprise development in the country to eliminate illegal migration, smuggling of migrants and trafficking in human beings as stated in the Tripoli joint Declaration -LCB- Africa and European Union -RCB- in 2006.

«We will, however, continue to police the borders to curb illegal migration, child theft and trafficking and other heinous crimes in the state.

Cross River Command of Nigeria Immigration Service, Cross River Command, On Tuesday said that 792 illegal immigrants have been repatriated to their countries and rescued 65 trafficked victims in the state in 2016.

«From loansharking and illegal gambling, to credit card and health care fraud, and even firearms trafficking, today's mafia is fully diversified in its boundless search for illegal profits,» Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara said in a statement.

Pasquale's Rigoletto restaurant owner and Arthur Avenue mainstay Pasquale «Patsy» Parrello, along with associates including Anthony «Tony the Cripple» Cassetta, John «Tugboat» Tognino and Nicholas «Nicky the Wig» Vuolo are alleged to have been part of an Mob enterprise that took part in arson, extortion, firearms trafficking, assault, operating illegal gambling businesses and more.

Republican Katko points to breaches in security where guns and illegal drug trafficking was exposed.

Cuomo also wanted to establish a partnership among other governors in other states that would share information on illegal gun trafficking and develop a «working group» of law enforcement officials to establish best practices and share resources with federal authorities.

Apparently embarrassed by the high number of Libyan returnees from Edo state and in a bid to curb the challenges of illegal migration, Edo State governor, Godwin Obaseki, has appointed a Senior Special Assistant on Human Trafficking and Illegal Migillegal migration, Edo State governor, Godwin Obaseki, has appointed a Senior Special Assistant on Human Trafficking and Illegal MigIllegal Migration.

U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D - N.Y.) is hoping to stop illegal gun trafficking, in an attempt to prevent gun violence.

«From loansharking and illegal gambling, to credit card and health care fraud, and even firearms trafficking, today's mafia is fully diversified in its boundless search for illegal profits.

No one know how many birds succumb each year to the wildlife trade since much of the trafficking is illegal, but within Southeast Asia alone, it is likely «in the order of tens of millions,» says Kelly Edmunds, a researcher at the University of East Anglia in England who investigates the emerging infectious diseases amongst bird sellers in Asia and was not involved in the study.

After a crackdown at the urban crossings in California, illegal traffic from Mexico and Central America shifted to the Arizona desert, a riskier environment.

Law enforcement authorities need to better understand trafficking patterns of cocaine in the United States to address one of the world's largest illegal drug markets, according to a Michigan State University researcher whose new methodology might help.

The first aerial assessment of the impact of South Sudan's current civil war on the country's wildlife and other natural resources shows that significant wildlife populations have so far survived, but poaching and commercial wildlife trafficking are increasing, as well as illegal mining, timber harvesting and charcoal production, the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) said in a report issued today.

«They confirm that the scale of the illegal wildlife trade — including trade in plants — is much greater than we had previously thought, and that wildlife trafficking concerns many more species than the charismatic rhinos and elephants which tend to receive global attention.

A South African company has been indicted in Alabama for selling illegal rhinoceros hunts to Americans and secretly trafficking in the endangered animals» horns

«In addition to a fishing ban, Mexico, the United States, and China need to take urgent and coordinated action to stop the illegal fishing, trafficking and consumption of totoaba.»

In this way social and sanitary support is given to people with problematic consumption, while illegal drug trafficking is avoided,» he adds.

Although it is not yet possible to show a definite trend, the analysis provides clear evidence that illegal trade in Tigers, their parts and products, persists as a major conservation concern, says TRAFFIC.

We also get a familiar plot about an illegal drug - trafficking ring that inevitably gets in the way of the troupe's jokes.

Warring factions in the Mexican state of Michuacán have taken the lives of innocents and filled the streets with unlicensed armaments in their crossfire: drug cartels like the Knights Templar have terrorized the people for years, while the white T - shirt - wearing Autodefensas, led by Dr. Jose Mireles, have fought to protect the civilians, though their methods are as illegal as their drug - trafficking opposition.

TRAFFIC's global elephant and rhino programme leader describes the current rhino and elephant poaching crisis, and the illegal trade in their horn and ivory that is driving this.

«By pure coincidence,» Boyle says, «her NGO, just the week before, had talked about doing something on human trafficking» — the illegal trade in human beings through which people profit from the control and exploitation of others.

I started dealing them from my back porch, like I was trafficking in something illegal, not ACT materials.