Smuggling

Ill Cali cartel drug kingpin seeks early prison release

MIAMI — One of the world's major cocaine kingpins, a co-founder of Colombia's Cali Cartel that smuggled some $2 billion in drugs to the U.S., is seeki...
16:20 6 February 2022

Making misery pay: Libya militias take EU funds for migrants

TRIPOLI, Libya — When the European Union started funneling millions of euros into Libya to slow the tide of migrants crossing the Mediterranean, the m...
16:16 31 December 2022

What Crackdown? Migrant smuggling business adapts, thrives

HERMOSILLO, Mexico — The heavy-set man swept through a curtain into the reserved area of a nightclub as his bodyguard stood nearby. In the darkness, h...
16:03 19 December 2021

Ruling threatens smuggling cases against Marines

SAN DIEGO — Marine Corps prosecutors were meeting Tuesday in a scramble to save their numerous cases against Marines accused in a human smuggling and ...
21:51 19 November 2021

Elected Arizona official accused of selling babies suspended

PHOENIX — An elected official in Arizona was suspended Monday after he was charged with running a human smuggling scheme that brought pregnant women f...
0:20 29 October 2021

‘I’m dying’: Relatives await answers in smuggling case

DO THANH, Vietnam — One family received a final text from their daughter saying she couldn't breathe and was dying. Another grieving family set up a m...
16:34 26 October 2021

Ex-refugee shares the dangers of being smuggled in a truck

LONDON — Ahmad Al-Rashid knows what it was like for the 39 people who were found dead in the back of a truck in southeastern England this week. He's b...
10:37 26 October 2021