Word: smugglerous
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Police have said they think that the smuggler probably addressed the package to the academic department so it would pass through customs, Lane said. Lane added that the police also said the large quantity of drugs indicates that this probably isn't the first shipment...
They will pack their entire family into the trunk of a smuggler's car and ride for several hours until they reach Los Angeles. They will spend hundreds of dollars for a safe passage just to San Diego. And many will die in the process...
...have smuggled into the U.S. at least 58 tons of cocaine from facilities like Tranquilandia, a massive complex of coke-processing laboratories in the Amazon jungle that Colombian authorities busted in 1984. The Medellin drug barons were also indicted for plotting the murder of Adler ("Barry") Seal, a drug ( smuggler turned informant who was gunned down last February in Baton Rouge, La. Seal was to have been the Government's star witness in the trial of the cocaine kingpins...
...unless Starr's citizenry can be enlisted in the war against drugs. At present many residents regard the narcotraficantes as local heroes, and their exploits are celebrated in ballads called corridos, which play on radio stations. In the river hamlet of Fronton, a monument was erected to mark a smuggler's death in a shoot-out with Customs agents...
...local priest who has buried many of the gunfight victims. Yet Snipes and others sense a small but rising concern now that drugs, which once only passed through the county, are finding their way into local schools. At a Mass last month, the outraged priest played one of the smuggler ballads and then asked his congregation, "There's a war going on. It's good against evil; what do you want?" As worshipers applauded and gathered around him afterward, the answer was obvious...