Smuggling

Offers recommendations to reduce lost revenue

January 28, 2008 – The Michigan Liquor Control Commission (MLCC) and the Michigan Authorized Alcohol Distribution Agents today issued a report that estimates that the state of Michigan loses $14 million annually due to the illegal importation of alcohol. The MLCC outlined a series of steps that should be taken to combat the state’s loss of revenue.    » read more »

Successful Interagency Maritime Interdiction Forces Smugglers to Extreme Tactics

Dec. 6, 2007 -- WASHINGTON - The Commandant of the U.S. Coast Guard announced today a record year for cocaine seizures with 355,755 pounds seized, worth more than $4.7 billion.    » read more »

Record-Breaking 27 Metric Tonnes of Meat Confiscated

Oct. 11, 2007 -- Environment Canada's Wildlife Enforcement Division along with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Fisheries Service officers have dismantled a major smuggling organization of queen conch meat, an internationally protected endangered species.    » read more »

04 October 2007 -- Concerns with smuggling and terrorism have led to heightened security along U.S borders. Mike O'Sullivan reports from Seattle.

The U.S. border with Canada, 6,400 kilometers from the Atlantic to the Pacific oceans, has been described as the world's longest undefended international boundary.

The U.S. southern border with Mexico has hundreds of kilometers of high fencing, with more planned, but there is little to mark parts of the U.S. northern border.

A small fence is all that separates the U.S. town of Blaine, Washington, from a Canadian highway.    » read more »

PHILADELPHIA – United States Attorney Pat Meehan recently announced two guilty pleas in connection with an international ring that smuggled dead body parts of endangered species into the United States.1 The endangered species was the marine mammal Physeter macrocephalus , commonly known as the Sperm whale. The dead body parts were teeth, each having the shape of a cone, pointed at one end, approximately eight inches high and six inches in diameter, and weighing between one and five pounds.    » read more »