| The traffickers then had a gunbattle with a rival drug gang over drug selling areas. |
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| Straw purchases were one of the most common schemes used by gun traffickers. |
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| His father paid people traffickers to smuggle his son out of the country to try to start a new life in Britain. |
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| The crooks range from small-time gangsters to big-time drug traffickers and international terrorists. |
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| One of the latest scams is a chemical process that allows traffickers to sneak cocaine past sniffer dogs. |
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| The country has agreed to extradite a number of captured drug traffickers and other criminals for trial. |
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| The threat of corruption and subversion by drug traffickers requires strong, cross-border teamwork. |
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| This story demonstrates the unrestrained power of organized drug traffickers. |
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| He believes that the traffickers follow the traditional southern smuggling routes. |
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| But the US and Peruvian governments believe farmers are being manipulated by narcotics traffickers. |
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| Cooperation between the expanding network of narcotics traffickers and terrorism is now increasingly possible. |
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| It's now labeled a narco-state in which drug lords and traffickers control both the economy and law enforcement. |
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| Smugglers and drug traffickers will find it even harder to sneak in contraband goods. |
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| More than 14,800 tons of toxic chemicals are dumped into the Amazon jungle every year as traffickers turn coca into raw cocaine paste. |
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| While they concede that some of the coca they produce is bought by drug traffickers, they show little remorse. |
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| In addition to liaising with the Coast Guard for coastal patrols, detectives are also monitoring known access routes used by traffickers. |
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| It is not difficult to understand why in some parts of the world traffickers in heroin in any substantial quality are sentenced to death and executed. |
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| They are not the actual traffickers, Yazbek says, so generally the other refugees protect their identity. |
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| Yazbek tells The Daily beast that the traffickers guarantee their service, and they treat the Syrian refugees with respect. |
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| Other times, the traffickers tried to blend in with the migrants and refugees. |
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| Like any service for hire, it is extremely important for the traffickers to provide a reputable service, criminal as it is. |
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| Human rights legislation has placed an obligation on police to protect drug traffickers, robbers, gunmen and their associates from their own kind. |
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| The first thing they told us was that the traffickers are now using Turkish ports, which are relatively easy to reach from Syria. |
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| For access and protection, narco traffickers pay the farc and other paramilitary groups undisclosed sums, according to Montoya. |
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| The luggage is well-suited for use by drug traffickers smuggling ecstasy. |
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| Since mare Nostrum, more than 60 traffickers have been arrested when their boats were intercepted or rescued at sea. |
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| In this case, the traffickers sold the drugs to undercover Mounties. |
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| I was kidnapped by the narco traffickers when I was running for mayor. |
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| One can only imagine what the U.S. response would have been if the Colombians had tried to claim the same immunity for some of their own army narco traffickers. |
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| On his quest he meets a bizarre array of treasure hunters, profiteers and traffickers, all with an unquenchable thirst for the hoard that has eluded man for centuries. |
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| But I think at this stage, we're better off taking the risk and hitting the traffickers than burdening the farmers with a major eradication program. |
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| For officials like Brohi, pursuing the drug traffickers in Turbat would mean crossing a political minefield. |
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| She helped rescue dozens of victims in Cambodia and collected evidence used by Cambodian authorities to convict the brothel owners and other traffickers. |
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| Police have reclaimed 33 slum communities once dominated by drug traffickers. |
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| Instead, drug traffickers in Colombia continued their focus on the exportation of cocaine. |
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| Additionally, there was a lack of regulation in prisons where captured traffickers were sent. |
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| Illicit drug users and traffickers were the subjects of some of the earliest films in penny arcades. |
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| This led to the increased collaboration between major Colombian and Mexican drug traffickers. |
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| Because of this loophole, it is desirable for many drug traffickers and money launderers to utilize Belize as a money laundering banking entity. |
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| This entices drug traffickers and money launderers who want to utilize their current economic system. |
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| In April 2008, police found 1,500 shell casings on various streets after one battle left 13 suspected drug traffickers dead. |
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| Lives for Sale also exposes the ploys human traffickers use to entrap their victims in a flourishing immigrant-smuggling network. |
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| The power this narcobourgeoisie gained throughout the 1980s crippled efforts to control and capture traffickers and strengthened the efforts of the traffickers themselves. |
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| Ghana is used as a key narcotics industry transshipment point by traffickers, usually from South America as well as some from other African nations. |
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| The loose regulation over the transportation of illegal drugs and the failure to prosecute known drug traffickers and gangs increased the growth of the drug industry. |
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| Free trade has fostered integration of financial markets and has provided drug traffickers with more opportunities to launder money and invest in other activities. |
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| Following the departure of the DEA from Venezuela and the expansion of DEA's partnership with Colombia in 2005, Venezuela became more attractive to drug traffickers. |
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| Ishtar told us how she escaped and why she turned to the traffickers. |
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