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NYC court: Big city guns can equal stiff sentence

AP — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 23:18:24 +0000

Federal judges can give harsher penalties to people who help bring illegal guns to big cities, a federal appeals court decided Thursday.

NY court: Big city guns can equal stiff sentence

AP — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 19:36:50 +0000

A Manhattan appeals court says federal judges can give extra-stiff penalties to people who help bring illegal guns to big cities.

Minnesotan, Texan get prison for deer smuggling

AP — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 00:24:54 +0000

Two men will serve prison time in a scheme to smuggle deer from Minnesota to Texas for trophy hunts.

Serbia scolds Albania over organ trafficking probe

AP — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 11:38:59 +0000

Serbian officials denounced Albania on Wednesday for refusing to investigate claims that Kosovo Albanian guerillas killed Serb prisoners for their organs during the 1998-99 Kosovo...

Serbia: Serbs may have been killed for organs

AP — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 14:41:26 +0000

Serbia’s war crimes prosecutor wants to travel to Albania to probe allegations that Kosovo guerillas killed Serb prisoners there years ago and sold their organs.

Former UCLA exec pleads guilty to body trafficking

AP — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 17:52:02 +0000

The former chief of UCLA’s willed body program has pleaded guilty for his role in selling donated body parts.

Mexico grapples with not only Drug Trafficking , but Addiction as well.

Oscar — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 10:55:49 +0000

Once mainly a smuggling corridor for drugs heading to the United States, Mexico is grappling with the effects of a fast-rising addiction rate as relatively cheap versions of cocaine and methamphetamine find a market south of the...

Major gunrunning and graft trial opens in Paris

AP — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 19:39:46 +0000

The son of a former French president, an Israeli-Russian billionaire and a tycoon with ties to Arizona’s jet set were among the headliners Monday as 42 defendants went on trial in Paris, accused in a worldwide web of trafficked arms to...

Huge gunrunning and graft trial opens in Paris

AP — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 10:47:07 +0000

The son of a late French president, an Israeli-Russian billionaire and 40 other people charged with trafficking arms to war-riven Angola or taking kickbacks will face judges Monday in a long-awaited trial in...

Police seize 8 tons of marijuana in southern Brazil

Celso Camargo — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 11:10:49 +0000

Brazilian police seized 8 tons of marijuana Friday morning in Sao Jose das Palmeiras, in southern Parana state near the Paraguayan border