Sentences with phrase «larger drug trafficking»

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

Interstate I - 95 winds through South Carolina, and has earned a reputation since the 1980's for being one of the country's largest drug trafficking traffic stop corridors, funneling marijuana, cocaine, and heroin from Cuba through Florida and into the Northeast.

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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.

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.

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.

Human trafficking is tied with arms dealing as the second - largest criminal enterprise in the world, after drug dealing, according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

The large profits associated with drug trafficking pay bribes, campaign contributions and political campaigns.

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.

More than 800,000 people are trafficked every year (some right here in the US, including girls as young as age 5) and sex trafficking is the # 2 largest source of profits for international organized crime... second only to drugs.

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.

In his new film, writer - director John Michael McDonagh's The Guard, Cheadle plays a FBI agent, Wendell Everett, who arrives in rural Ireland to head up a large international drug trafficking investigation, and is then forced to rely on an eccentric small town cop, Gerry Boyle (Brendan Gleeson), with a confrontational and crass personality.

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 →

According to the US State Department, slavery is now the third largest type of illegal trade in the world (after drugs and weapons); every year between 600,000 and 800,000 people are trafficked across national borders with about 17,500 entering the USA.

The large landowner, Danny Fowlie, was convicted for drug trafficking in the 1988.

In this complex scenario, Teresa Margolles deals with material fragments of buildings, transporting them across borders and reassembling them remotely in large format sculptures, as a call to read these traces as part of larger processes, events and social relations, such as migration, international drug trade, or human trafficking.

Wildlife trafficking is the fourth largest black market in the world (behind drugs, weapons and human trafficking) with the total trade worth $ 19 billion a year.

Michael Dyck has assisted clients with all sorts of drug related offences including simple possession of marijuana and cocaine, marijuana grow - operations, possession for the purpose of trafficking, trafficking, and he has even worked with some clients charged in large police investigations.

The criminal defense lawyers at Strom Law Firm L.L.C. handle all types of drug cases, from Simple Possession of Marijuana to Conspiracy to Traffic in large quantities of illegal narcotics.

Regardless of the severity of the charges, be it possession of a small amount of marijuana or drug trafficking of large amounts of illegal substances, penalties may be steep if a person is convicted.

His experience includes health care fraud, investment fraud, securities fraud, Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, bank fraud, embezzlement, Qui Tam, large scale corporate identity theft, tax fraud / copyright / trademark infringement, FDA fraud / mislabeling, financial crimes, public corruption, organized crime and drug trafficking.

(10) The Court then explained, after stating that drug addiction represents a serious evil for the individual and is fraught with social and economic danger to mankind, that such trafficking could reach a level of intensity that might directly threaten the calm and physical security of the population as a whole or a large part of it.

Articling with the law firm Gindin Wolson Simmonds Roitenberg, Mr. Schwartz gained experience in a wide range of criminal offences including large scale drug trafficking and drive impaired charges.