Sentences with phrase «smuggling activity»

Louisiana's geographic and transportation attributes, as well as casino gaming industry have all contributed to the advancing drug smuggling activity throughout the state and surrounding Gulf Coast areas.

Along with it, comes the inevitability of increased smuggling activity by Organised Crime Groups (OCGs).

The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Oyo - Osun Area Command, on Thursday said it has arrested no fewer than four persons in connection with various smuggling activities in...

His recent paintings reference a parallel economy where ordinary life collides and colludes with a subculture of smuggling activities.

Police seized documents related to Imperial's smuggling activities including a letter written in 1993 by Imperial's president and CEO Don Brown, addressed to the managing director of the company's parent, British American Tobacco.

Miami was known for the violence surrounding drug smuggling activities, made famous by the television show Miami Vice and the movie Scarface.

Not exact matches

The Trump administration has cited criminal activity such as human smuggling and drug trafficking as reasons to crack down on the border, but Trump himself has appeared preoccupied with a «caravan» of central American migrants, some of whom intended to travel through Mexico to the US border and either seek asylum or cross the border undetected.

The association names illegal fundraising among the ranks of criminal activities, such as money laundering, drug trafficking, and smuggling, that it links to virtual currency.

The U.S. provides the largest drug consumption market in the western hemisphere while Canada serves two roles — as both a destination and transit country for illicit activities including drug smuggling and global alien smuggling.

Among these activities was his involvement in Operation 7, which smuggled 14 «non-Aryans» into Switzerland under the guise of an operation of military intelligence.

Set at the height of the Cold War, the French Secret Service alerts the US and President Reagan to the activities of a Soviet spy, Sergei Gregoriev (Kusturica), high up in the KGB, who is smuggling out extensive details of the KGB's intelligence - gathering capabilities.

The region has turned into a base for drug smuggling, weapons smuggling, human trafficking, and a wide array of militant activity.

Concomitantly, as smuggling and illegal mining thrived on this highly lucrative market, China has also recently started a vigorous crackdown on illegal activity and took steps for greater regulation of the rare earth metals sector.

On the other hand it provides incentives for increasing criminal activities at the borders of the nation — smuggling.

WWF conjectures that one - quarter of this trade is illegal (at the time, selling prairie dogs was not illegal), making animal smuggling, after the drug trade, the most lucrative illegal activity in the world.

Once I learned how the cartels pretty much control both the human smuggling and the drug smuggling, we shifted our primary goal to keep cartel activity out of the country.

Jeremy Renner here plays San Jose Mercury News reporter Gary Webb who uncovered the fact that the CIA was smuggling cocaine into the United States for the purposes of funding Central American Contra activities.

In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the region's economy depended heavily on fishing; smuggling was also a key activity, and became more so during the period of Prohibition in the United States, during which nearly two million gallons of Canadian whiskey traveled through the islands on their way to the US.

Here are a few headline - grabbing incidents of migrant smuggling from across the world: United States Thousands of unaccompanied minors, many of whom originate from countries such as Guatemala and El Salvador, have been migrating to the United States for a while, but the situation came to the limelight with a sudden increase in activity in late summer / early fall 2014.

«The reason for that is because puppy smuggling is a highly organised criminal activity,» he says.

As a symbolic activity of Korean unification, the Klein blue is splashed, dipped, dripped on top of colorfully painted images of «Happy Land» themed Styrofoam punch - out paper toys found in Choco · Pie boxes, which are smuggled into North Korea from the South.

Eleven groups doing conservation work or biological research in Madagascar have issued a joint statement decrying a surge in raids on the country's national parks for valuable timber, smuggling of rare wildlife and other activities abetted by the unrest and political instability there.

The natural richness and potential of Oostpunt since 1993 is under huge stress due to natural deterioration, and rampant illegal practices such as spear fishing, plundering of baby conch, lobsters and the capture of sea turtles and rays, poaching of goats / sheep and donkeys, while a variety of other criminal activities savagely take place in the area, like car theft and stripping, the smuggling of drugs and people, trash dumping, etc..

Illegal logging activities can also weaken the rule of law — evidence shows that illegal logging is so corruptive that other forms of organized crime often accompany it, such as arms smuggling and human and drug trafficking.

People involved in human smuggling can not be denied refugee status in Canada simply on the basis of having assisted in the smuggling, if they have not received any financial benefit from the activity, the Supreme Court ruled on Friday.

Statistics are provided for things such as the number of applications made for authorizations and for renewals of authorizations, the period for which authorizations and renewals were granted, a description of the methods of interception, the offences specified in authorizations (e.g. possession of a narcotic for the purpose of trafficking, smuggling / attempt to smuggle goods into Canada, laundering proceeds of excise offences, forgery of passport, weapons trafficking, murder, fraud, countefeiting, participating in activities of a criminal organization, etc.), the number of arrests as a result of an interception under an authorization.

It also determined Mr. Hernandez was inadmissible by reason of organized criminality, under s. 37 (1)(b), since there were reasonable grounds to believe he had engaged, in the context of transnational crime, in the activity of people smuggling.

Legalize and Regulate Marijuana WHEREAS, despite almost a century of prohibition, millions of Canadians today regularly consume marijuana and other cannabis products; WHEREAS the failed prohibition of marijuana has exhausted countless billions of dollars spent on ineffective or incomplete enforcement and has resulted in unnecessarily dangerous and expensive congestion in our judicial system; WHEREAS various marijuana decriminalization or legalization policy prescriptions have been recommended by the 1969 - 72 Commission of Enquiry into the Non-Medical Use of Drugs, the 2002 Canadian Senate Special Committee on Illegal Drugs, and the 2002 House of Commons Special Committee on the Non-Medical Use of Drugs; WHEREAS the legal status quo for the criminal regulation of marijuana continues to endanger Canadians by generating significant resources for gang - related violent criminal activity and weapons smuggling — a reality which could be very easily confronted by the regulation and legitimization of Canada's marijuana industry; BE IT RESOLVED that a new Liberal government will legalize marijuana and ensure the regulation and taxation of its production, distribution, and use, while enacting strict penalties for illegal trafficking, illegal importation and exportation, and impaired driving; BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a new Liberal government will invest significant resources in prevention and education programs designed to promote awareness of the health risks and consequences of marijuana use and dependency, especially amongst youth; BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a new Liberal government will extend amnesty to all Canadians previously convicted of simple and minimal marijuana possession, and ensure the elimination of all criminal records related thereto; BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a new Liberal government will work with the provinces and local governments of Canada on a coordinated regulatory approach to marijuana which maintains significant federal responsibility for marijuana control while respecting provincial health jurisdiction and particular regional concerns and practices.

As a result, Shenzhen customs plans to keep a close eye on this high - tech smuggling — perhaps using its own drones to help combat illegal cross-border activity.

While the KCS did not disclose whether it is taking any legal actions currently against these businesses, it said it will continue the effort in investigating on similar activities as well as illicit use of cryptocurrency in money laundering and smuggling illegal goods such as drugs.

North Korea's Office 39 is involved in activities such as gold smuggling, counterfeiting foreign currency, and even operating restaurants.»

Made immediate decisions regarding immigration violations, evidence of smuggling, fraud, terrorism, or other suspect activity; apprehended, searched, detain, or arrested violators of Immigration laws or the civil and criminal codes.

Apprehension and prevention of illegal activities such as human, drug, and weapons smuggling into the United States.