Articles tagged "smuggling"

The illicit white powder that Chinese parents can’t get enough of.

Another day, another unequivocally cool side project from Jack White and his boutique record label, Third Man Records.

Talk about a coke bust.

As it turns out, they're bringing a whole lot more than mediocre weed and high-grade Central American blow.

The narco sub’s speedy development is the perfect example of the old “where there’s a will, there’s a way” adage that’s fueled all aspects of the drug war, and stands as proof that no matter how much jail time is threatened or how many armed guards l…

You can almost hear the lowly mules--both of whom fled the scene--cry out in that sort of self-deprecating _God damnit_ that only comes when you know you really fucked up.

It was only a matter of time. When Motherboard "caught up with the so-called godfather of narco subs":http://motherboard.vice.com/2010/7/4/go-inside-a-drug-submarine-with-the-narco-sub-godfather a few years back, the cartel's seaborne coke craft were…

We know that wildlife trafficking is bad, largely because it threatens species with extinction and helps fuel organized crime. But we humans are pretty self-centered creatures, so it’s easy to follow up knowledge that, say, rare fishes are dying out…

Rates of elephant poaching and the ivory trade have reached their highest pitch in a decade.

The Department of Homeland Security is high off the prospect of using aerial spy drones to nab high-seas drug smugglers. DHS, which already operates nine unmanned Predator drones along the northern and southwestern borderlands, says it "plans to expa…

You don't have to be able to see through stone to realize just how fucked the American prison system is. Where to even begin? There are the insane profits reaped by "private prisons":http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/22/opinion/krugman-prisons-priva…

Remember the tale of the Mongolian _Tarbosaurus bataar_ (an Asian relative of _T. rex_) skeleton that mysteriously sold for $1.05 million at auction in the United States? In short, Mongolia barred the sale of rare native antiquities to in 1961, which…

For a semi-illiterate grammar school dropout, Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán is a bloody mastermind. Guzmán, 55, sits atop Mexico's Sinaloa drug cartel, which by all accounts is arguably the richest, most powerful crime syndicate in history. That's him on…

It should come as no surprise, with turtle boots and tiger pelts showing up on Craigslist, that wildlife trafficking is driving the most popular — and most fragile — species on Earth towards extinction. Trafficking is such a big business that the mob…

Remember that really icky story about South Korean dead baby pill smugglers I wrote about awhile back? It was a quick little bit based off of a Daily Mail report discussing how South Korean customs officials had busted a bunch of people cruising arou…

This may take the cake for foulest thing I've written: around 17,000 pills filled with the dried, ground flesh of _dead babies_ have been confiscated by South Korean customs officials. Officials announced today that a series of 35 busts that netted a…