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Mexican police find $62M in drugs in abandoned truck near border
Mexican authorities found an abandoned tractor-trailer near the U.S.-Mexico border with $62 million in drugs hidden between sacks of plaster mix.
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Commentary: Drug smuggling increases on the high seas
Ben Thrower writes about the increased use of cargo ships to smuggle drugs.
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Does Drug and Alcohol Clearinghouse pass the test?
DOES THE DRUG & ALCOHOL CLEARINGHOUSE PASS THE TEST? Rob Hatchett President of Seat My Trucks is helping carriers find drivers and navigate new regulations
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Billion-dollar illegal drug-smugglers were not customs brokers or trusted traders
Despite extensive general reporting to the contrary, a trio who imported a massive quantity of illegal drugs were not customs brokers or trusted traders.
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Yakuza suspected in Kobe port cocaine container seizure
Japanese mafia are in the firing line after a record 400 kilos of cocaine are found in a container in Japan.
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Mafia blamed as $275 million of cocaine seized
Europol believe Italy’s ‘Ndrangheta mafia is behind the use of Gioia Tauro as a cocaine hub for western Europe.
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1,160 kg Indian Ocean ketamine seizure
The $42.3 million bust is the latest in a string of global maritime drug seizures at sea and in ports.
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Record $148 million heroin bust made at UK port
Does container shipping have a drug problem? After a string of busts in the U.S. in recent months, attention has now switched to the U.K.,…
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Brain-damage causing trucker narrowly escapes more severe criminal sentence
A truck driver who was convicted and sentenced for dangerously driving his truck in a way that caused grievous bodily harm and severe brain damage…
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Drug-abusing trucker jailed for 18.5 years after savagely beating his boss to death
Truck driver Patrick Allen Boon must now serve nearly two decades in jail for beating his boss to death with a hammer and wrench in…
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