Sentences with phrase «in drug traffic»

If the latter is the case, running checks on certain building owners in drug traffic areas might be one way to start.

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.

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.

El Aissami was blacklisted earlier this year by the U.S. Treasury Department on accusations he is involved in drug trafficking, which he denies.

In Ghana a close relative of a senior official is involved in drug trafficking.

In January 2014, WACD, an independent, high - level body convened by the Kofi Annan Foundation, released a report called State Officials and their Involvement in Drug Trafficking in West Africa.

Flores, who has run unsuccessfully for elected office in El Salvador, hosts a weekly online interview program in the country and has accused politicians there of being involved in the drug trafficking industry.

Officials said the students had been filming in the area and speculated that that could have drawn the attention of local paramilitary groups involved in drug trafficking.

However, he soon falls in love with a mysterious woman and gets involved in drug trafficking.

Who: Michael Fassbender, Cameron Diaz, Brad Pitt, Penelope Cruz and Javier Bardem What: A lawyer finds himself in over his head when he gets involved in drug trafficking.

The Counselor tells the story of a lawyer, played by Fassbender, who finds himself in over his head when he gets involved in drug trafficking.

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.

Based on a true story, «American Made» just validates the rumors that CIA agents are or had been involved in drug trafficking, in a clear exertion of influences and abuse of power to stuff their pockets with large sums of... Continue reading →

The film tells the story of a lawyer, who finds himself in over his head when he gets involved in drug trafficking.

People involved in drug trafficking?

Her performances and videos contest the means through which the government and the press manipulate facts to construct an official story and critique the complicity of the United States and Mexico in drug trafficking and organized crime.

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.

Since 1992, we have successfully represented Ontario clients in drug trafficking cases, including cocaine trafficking, methamphetamine trafficking, heroin trafficking and other forms of drug importation.

There was no other evidence that C.S. was involved in drug trafficking or for that matter had any knowledge that the bag had cocaine in it.

Still, I think it notable and interesting that the first run of federal sentencing data of the Trump Era shows a continued decline in overall sentences imposed and in drug trafficking sentences imposed.

Police suspect the Appellant, Mr. Christiansen, is engaged in drug trafficking.

Vancouver Criminal Lawyer Emmet J. Duncan persuaded the Judge that because of the Client's outstanding background and demonstrated commitment to a law - abiding lifestyle (including working and going to school), that the Client should receive a fine and probation including «community work service» to educate other youth about the dangers of getting involved in drug trafficking operations.

Shamo, along with other dark web operators Drew Wilson Crandall, Mario Anthony Noble, and Sean Michael Gygi, was found guilty on May 31, 2017 of conspiracy to distribute a controlled substance, aiding the importation of a controlled substance, intentional adulteration of drugs, use of the US mail in drug trafficking, conspiracy to commit money laundering, and engaging in monetary transaction in property derived from specified unlawful activity.

His clinical experience has included the provision of services to street children engaged in drug trafficking and prostitution, victims of sexual abuse and violence, adolescents involved in the juvenile justice system, and adult federal probationers convicted for drug trafficking.

Not exact matches

While trafficking routes have changed over time, in recent years narco subs and other vessels leaving southwest Colombia or northwest Ecuador laden with drug cargos often head out in the Pacific, even around the Galapagos Islands, before turning north in an effort to skirt law enforcement closer to home — which may include underwater sensors in Colombian waters — as well as US - led interdiction efforts.

«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 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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.»

Harris, who ran and lost as a Democrat for statehouse in 1990, recalled that Gowdy once strolled into a Spartanburg courtroom wheeling a rolling bookcase at the start of a drug - trafficking trial.

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

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

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 six cartels that the DEA judges to have the greatest drug - trafficking influence in the US are the Sinaloa, Jalisco New Generation, Juarez, and Gulf cartels and the Beltran Leyva Organization.

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.»

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.

Cartels and gangs active in drug - trafficking in Guerrero «keep their eye on you,» a local farmer told the Los Angeles Times last summer.

«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.

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.»