NC examining cig stamps again to deter smuggling The News & Observer | RALEIGH, N.C. -- For years, buying low-tax North Carolina cigarettes and selling them on the black market in a high-tax state up north has been an easy way to make big money for criminal enterprises. | Load up a van of Camels or Marlboros and reap a $100,000 profit to sell them if the destination ...
Hamas commander assassinated in Dubai 'helped smuggle weapons into Gaza' The Daily Mail | A Hamas commander killed in Dubai was targeted by Israel for his role in smuggling 'special weapons' to the Gaza Strip, the Palestinian Islamist group said on Sunday. | Israel's government declined official comment on the death of Mahmoud al-Mabhouh on January 20, which Hamas labeled an assassinat...
3 civil servants charged with graft over sand smuggling New Straits/Business Times | 2010/02/08 | JOHOR BAHARU, Mon -- Three civil servants were charged in two sessions courts here today with committing corruption over the smuggling of sand to Singapore. In the first, Customs officer Suhaimi Abdul Wahab, 36, and Abdul Ghani Hitam, ...
Three civil servants charged over sand smuggling The Star | farik@thestar.com.my | JOHOR BARU: Three men pleaded not guilty separately in the Sessions Court here with accepting bribes to allow for the smuggling of sand into Singapore. | Customs Department officers Suhaimi Abdul Wahab, 36, and Md Noor Md Yat...
Khaleda Zia's son involved in abortive weapons smuggling to Ulfa DNA India | DHAKA: Former Bangladesh premier Khaleda Zia's son Tarique Rahman was involved in an abortive smuggling of weapons, believed to be meant for Ulfa militants in Assam, the detained prime accused in the country's biggest ever arms haul case ha...
Zia's son involved in abortive weapons smuggling to ULFA Zeenews Dhaka: Former Bangladesh premier Khaleda Zia's son Tarique Rahman was involved in an abortive smuggling of weapons, believed to be meant for ULFA militants in Assam, the detained prime accused in the country's biggest ever arms haul case has claimed....
NC examining cig stamps again to deter smuggling The News & Observer | RALEIGH, N.C. -- For years, buying low-tax North Carolina cigarettes and selling them on the black market in a high-tax state up north has been an easy way to make big money for criminal enterprises. | Load up a van of Camels or Marlboros and reap ...
Illegal prescription-drug trade now epidemic The Columbus Dispatch | PORTSMOUTH, Ohio -- Ohio pharmacists filled 2.7 million prescriptions in 2008 for high-powered painkillers such as OxyContin and Percocet, narcotics that contain oxycodone; that's nearly one for every four people in the state. | They also filled 4....
Mich. judge: Bridge owner illegally built booths The Examiner Comments DETROIT (Map, News) - A Michigan judge has ruled that the private owner of the Ambassador Bridge illegally installed toll booths and other facilities. | Wayne County Circuit Judge Prentice Edwards on Friday ordered the Detroit International ...
YCL 'colludes' with cops in smuggling timber The Himalayan | BIRATNAGAR: Cadres of the Maoists’ Young Communist League (YCL) are involved in timber smuggling in border areas of Morang district, it was revealed today. | The YCL’s involvement surfaced after two sister organisations of the Maoists f...
Mia Farrow Criticizes Illegal Haiti Adoptions ABC News GENEVA February 5, 2010 (AP) The Associated Press | UNICEF goodwill ambassador Mia Farrow has criticized as "deplorable" attempts to take children out of Haiti illegally after last month's devastating earthquake. | The U.S. actress says groups or individuals who want to help Haiti's children should rather support orphanages or their families inside...
