Sentences with phrase «smuggled used»

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A light April snow is falling as he tells me he used to drive commercial trucks up from Texas in the 1990s with packages of cocaine, smuggled from Mexico, hidden inside television sets.

Last year, a drone was used to try to smuggle phones, marijuana and tobacco into a South Carolina maximum security prison, but it crashed outside the facility's walls.

Well, you've got transnational criminal organizations trying to smuggle commodities into the United States, and so they use Central America as their initial destination to move commodities into the United States.

The documentary showed Prince Harry and Prince William looking through Diana's personal album, talking about childhood memories, and speaking about her «fun» parenting — she apparently used to smuggle them sweets.

The revelations answer the question as to what the contents of the bottle he used to drink the liquid were full of, but authorities still haven't figured out how Praljak obtained the poison, or how he managed to smuggle it into the courtroom.

Falciani then had to attract the attention of the Swiss police because, unless the Swiss would have openly demanded the data he had smuggled, the French police were not allowed to use the files.

Dedrone systems detect unauthorized drones in the sky, including drones used for gun smuggling.

The keys are smuggled into Mexico and then on to the United States — by land, air, or sea — using methods as varied as they are ingenious: stashed under fresh produce, in cans of jalapeños, in the bellies of frozen shark carcasses, in trap compartments of cars, trucks, motor homes, container ships, small aircraft, even submarines; taped to the bodies of backpackers traveling by bus; catapulted over border fences; concealed in the trunks of corrupt local sheriffs; or trundled through underground tunnels (some so well constructed that they have air conditioning), a tactic purportedly devised by El Chapo himself.

Windward's technology has thus far been used mostly by government agencies for dealing with smuggling, protection of resources, and gathering information for strategic needs.

«A blanket ban on the use of cryptocurrencies is not a very feasible solution as drug smuggling is a big problem, and in most cases, these transactions have nothing to do with use of cryptocurrencies.»

Given the strict controls on the possession and use of handguns in Canada, it is safe to say that most handguns used in crimes are illegal ones, smuggled into the country.

These atrocities against Christians has been going on for nearly a decade as Muslim gangs have used this region to smuggle cocaine from S. America to Europe.

Does the very use of the concept «pluralism» smuggle an evaluative judgment into what presents itself as a descriptive account of factors that make a theological school concrete?

@Hot Air Ace: I thought Sarah loved your health care system... her family used to smuggle her over there to steal some of it.

(She is used to my veggie smuggling).

The Cabrach distillery will celebrate this rich birth right, telling the as - yet untold story of the early days of farm distilling and the smuggling which was rife in the area, while the historical distillery will reflect production methods that were used in the Cabrach at the dawn of the modern distilling era in the early 1800's.

Each new release was to be «smuggled» in unique packaging reminiscent of the hiding places used to conceal the whisky.

What makes Fäviken special, what gets chefs like Redzepi excited about the place, isn't just the extreme localness of the ingredients (Nilsson basically doesn't use anything he can't get from the farm or pull from nearby waters, barring sugar from Denmark, salt from France, his beloved alcoholic vinegar — and the occasional pineapple he smuggles in for a staff - meal pizza).

Many worry that authoritarian politicians are using the heightened state of alarm to smuggle in draconian new pieces of legislation, not least on media freedom - although on that matter the media handed politicians most of the weapons they would need to challenge them due to their catastrophic mishandling of events following the Charlie Hebdo attack.

The world is not as divided as it used to be and modern warfare is less about the smuggling of weapons and more about the spread of ideas.

And although states acknowledged that the text of this resolution — namely to search, seize and dispose of vessels used in smuggling or trafficking crimes — addresses only a small part of the crisis confronting Europe today, Resolution 2240 forgets that the people floating on rubber dinghies off the coast of Libya are typically not criminals.

The mayor will also announce that the jail will be setting up new TSA - style scanners at Rikers» entry points to increase searches of both officers and visitors who might smuggle weapons or other contraband into the jail that can not be detected by the scanners in use by the Department of Correction today.

While officially Baghdad is now considering whether there is enough evidence of Turkey's involvement in oil trade with IS to file a formal protest at the UN Security Council, an Iraqi Defense Ministry spokesman, Naseer Nuri, told Sputnik on Wednesday that «general information about the smuggling of Iraqi oil by trucks to certain countries, including Turkey» is already available to them, and «this oil is used to fund Daesh.»

They used Special Anti-robbery Squad to abduct INEC officials and smuggle in fake results.»

Inspector General Catherine Leahy Scott's report says the belongings of staff were supposed to be routinely searched, but were not, allowing prison employee Joyce Mitchell to smuggle in some of the tools the inmates used in their escape.

A Chinese national, Zhao Chum, and his Nigerian accomplice, Christian Ohia, have been arrested for allegedly smuggling into Nigeria, unregistered and controlled chemicals used for manufacturing...

A trio of gun traffickers was busted Tuesday for smuggling at least 50 firearms from Ohio to The Bronx — writing Facebook messages to each other using sneaker names as...

A trio of gun traffickers was busted Tuesday for smuggling at least 50 firearms from Ohio to The Bronx — writing Facebook messages to each other using sneaker names as code words for the weapons, new court papers state.

Other detail available to The Herald revealed how the importer use Customs, veterinary and with the FDA to smuggle imported frozen food from the port without paying duties on them.

We would love to include workers like Joyce Mitchell, who will keep her pension despite pleading guilty to smuggling into Clinton Correctional Facility hacksaw blades, chisels, a steel punch and two concrete drill bits used by convicted murderers David Sweat and Richard Matt in last summer's escape.

With the Peace Bridge and Buffalo Niagara International Airport as major venues for fentanyl smuggling, Schumer said CBP can use the new equipment to examine packages and intercept masked substances.

In a 2008 Homeland Security Committee report issued by Rep. Peter King, New York law enforcement officials estimated that cigarette smuggling networks generated $ 200,000 to $ 300,000 weekly and that much of that money is used to «directly or indirectly finance groups such as Hezbollah, Hamas, and al - Qaida.»

«Westchester County has zero tolerance when it comes to illegal contraband being smuggled into our jail to be used by inmates and prisoners,» County Executive Robert P. Astorino said.

What's needed, says Bennett, is to increase surveillance along the smuggling routes, and use sniffer dogs, DNA tests and smartphone apps to identify species.

Bennett has found that modern poachers use methods such as hidden compartments in shipping containers, changes of smuggling routes and anonymous e-commerce to avoid detection.

The most popular «Trojan horses» used to smuggle genes into human patients are modified retroviruses.

While many people are familiar with the idea of dogs and cats getting chipped, the practice is also used with exotic pets like the Asian arowana fish, above, when there's concern of possible smuggling or sale of wild animals.

The two discovered that, following Darwin's circumnavigation, the Beagle joined a coast guard fleet and was used to combat smuggling near Darwin's home in Kent.

The technique could provide clues to the mysterious smuggling routes used by international criminal networks.

Voxtel makes tagging materials — taggants — that can be used to discreetly label vehicles carrying smuggled goods, or people who are involved in civil disobedience or attempting to cross international borders illegally.

He is a Horde character, but he can use smuggling methods to send gold to Alliance characters via his Alliance wife, Lunette.

Researchers use DNA forensics to help conservation and law officials understand the strategies used to smuggle ivory across borders to black markets in Asian countries, including Thailand, Vietnam and China.

Using forged identification to present herself as a nurse to guards at the entrance to the enclave where the Jewish population has been sequestered, Irena tries to convince the parents of young children to allow her to smuggle them out to safety.

The story has to do with nuclear bombs being stolen from the Russians and smuggled into Bosnia for use by terrorists.

The guys uncover a smuggling conspiracy that plans on using the switching border to great financial gain, but mostly they just mess with people.

He never knew so few words could cause such chaos, but when Father William learns that a group of emboldened drug runners are about to execute a lucrative international drug smuggling scheme and use the church to elude suspicion, the race is on to shut the operation down or die trying.

In the film, Lucy (Johansson, Captain America: The Winter Soldier) is abducted by a gang of Asian baddies, led by the nefarious Mr. Jang (Min - sik, Oldboy), who aim to use her as one of their «mules» to smuggle their uber - potent drug called CPH4 to other territories around the world.

It's less to help out Ali than to at least do right by a child whose mother used to use him to smuggle drugs.

It used to be that there were two businesses: there was drug smuggling, and there was human smuggling.

Billy and Julien use the club as a front for drug smuggling.