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4 unusual facts about Smuggling


A. Wesley Stuart

Time magazine reported that he declared he had "been a smuggler all his life—and intended to keep on being one," adding that he "never came through the border in my lifetime that I did not smuggle something."

Collieston

The numerous sea caves in the nearby cliffs, and small coves with shingle beaches provided ideal terrain for smugglers.

Jake Perrine

His sole credit for voice acting is in the PC game Nancy Drew: Secret of the Scarlet Hand, where he plays the devious art dealer / artifact smuggler Taylor Sinclair.

St Andrew's Church, West Tarring

Smuggling was popular in the Worthing area between the early 18th and early 19th centuries — sometimes out of necessity, such as during a period of economic hardship in the 1820s which caused the developing town to stagnate.


10-Truck Arms and Ammunition Haul in Chittagong

In 2004, arms smuggling charges were filed against a total of 45 individuals under the Special Powers Act and arms charges against 43 persons under the Arms Act.

Algeciras Conference

The final Act of the conference of Algeciras, signed on April 7, 1906, covered the organisation of Morocco's police and customs, regulations concerning the repression of the smuggling of armaments, and concessions to the European bankers from a newly formed State Bank of Morocco, issuing banknotes backed by gold, with a 40-year term.

Alnmouth

Located at the mouth of the River Aln, the village has been an important trading port in Northumberland's past, mainly involved in the export of grain, and smuggling.

Barmet Bay

In the original series, smuggling (opium and silk, for example in The House on the Cliff) is one of the most common crimes that the Hardy Boys combat, and many stories involve explorations and chase scenes around Barmet Bay and its environs.

Ben Powers

Powers was also a regular on the CBS-TV hit detective drama show Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer in 1984-85, until the star, Stacy Keach, was arrested in London for cocaine smuggling and the show was canceled while Keach did time in England.

Berkeley Township, New Jersey

Al Capone may have frequented its halls, perhaps even venturing beneath the lake in tunnels especially designed for smuggling alcohol during Prohibition.

Bjarkamál

The nyktomakhi is of about the same length as Bjarkamál, and containing the same elements: The Trojan horse/the smuggling of Swedish weapons; Danes/Trojans are sound asleep when Swedes/Greeks attack them; plus the climax: The godess Venus informs Æneas that it is the will of the gods themselves (that is, Jupiter, Juno, Minerva and Neptune) that Troy shall fall, and so he can honourably flee.

Conservation of Foreign Exchange and Prevention of Smuggling Activities Act

COFEPOSA (the Conservation of Foreign Exchange and Prevention of Smuggling Activities Act) is an Indian law passed in 1974 trying to retain foreign currency and prevent smuggling.

Diana Souhami

Edith Cavell, a biography of the nurse who was executed for her role in the smuggling of allied soldiers out of Belgium during the First World War.

Eduard Roschmann

Goñi, Uki, ODESSA—Smuggling the Nazis to Perón's Argentina, Granta, New York 2002 ISBN 1-86207-552-2

Elephants to Catch Eels

The new preventive officer, Major Falconer (Cameron Stewart), finds it difficult to believe a woman could be involved in smuggling, unlike his deputy, Captain Marriot (Andrew McGibbon).

Estevam Hernandes

On January 8, 2007, he and his wife were arrested at the Miami International Airport for smuggling money into the United States.

Genesis Be

After being accused of smuggling guns into Franklin County to arm black residents against the Ku Klux Klan, Rev. Briggs was murdered at the young age of 42.

George Gray

George Gray, founder of the Hawkhurst Gang, a notorious smuggling organisation in southeast England from 1735 until 1749

Greco Mafia clan

Although descendants of the old, established rural Mafia, the cousins Salvatore "Ciaschiteddu" Greco and Salvatore "The Engineer" Greco quickly learned to profit from the post-war economic boom and became involved in cigarette smuggling and heroin trafficking.

History of the Jews in Metro Detroit

In the 1920s and early 1930s, during the Prohibition Era, the Jewish gang Purple Gang operated alcohol smuggling and committed acts of violence in Detroit.

Inspector Ghote Hunts the Peacock

Johnny has been arrested and confessed to smuggling drugs in the Indian harmonium he has been using in his latest songs.

Irakli Okruashvili

After the Rose Revolution, Okruashvili was appointed the Person Authorized (governor) of the President of Georgia in Shida Kartli (to which breakaway South Ossetia was a de jure part) in November 2003 and established strong anti-corruption and anti-smuggling measures in the region.

Isaac Gulliver

An extremely wealthy man, Gulliver was also able to build many grand houses, among them 'Howe Lodge', in Kinson, Bournemouth, a purpose built smuggling stronghold.

Ji Shengde

In June 1999 he was removed from his post after being implicated in the Lai Changxing smuggling scandal centered on the Fujian port of Xiamen.

José Inés Salazar

A Federal jury in Santa Fe acquitted him of the smuggling charge in May 1914, but he was then taken to a detention camp at Fort Wingate, New Mexico to face charges of violating American neutrality laws.

Jurgis Bielinis

Jurgis Bielinis (March 16, 1846 in Purviškiai, near Biržai – January 18, 1918 in Katinai, near Panevėžys) was one of the main organizers of illegal book-smuggling (knygnešiai) at the time of the Lithuanian press ban.

Kathleen A. McGrath

In the spring of 2000, during her command of the Jarrett,and just six years after Congress revoked rules prohibiting women from serving on combat aircraft and warships, the ship deployed to the northern reaches of the Persian Gulf, hunting boats suspected of smuggling Iraqi oil in violation of United Nations sanctions.

Let Me Stand Alone

Corrie was killed in 2003 by an Israel Defense Forces armored bulldozer while protesting the destruction of a Gaza house which allegedly contained tunnels for smuggling weapons from Egypt.

Loveman Noa

On the morning of October 26, 1901 Midshipman Noa, with an armed crew of six men, put off from the Mariveles in a small boat to watch for craft engaged in smuggling contraband from the island of Leyte to Samar.

Machars

Burrow Head (the southernmost tip of the peninsula) is about eighteen miles from Point of Ayre on the Isle of Man, and trade links have long existed between the two places, much of which involved smuggling.

Mousa Mohammed Abu Marzook

Following the eight-day cross-border battle between Israel and Hamas in November, 2012, Moussa Abu Marzouk said that Hamas would not stop making weapons in Gaza or smuggling them to the territory.

Nicholas Baker

Nicholas John Baker, British citizen who was convicted of smuggling cocaine and ecstasy into Japan

Pakistan Forex Scam Case

In November 2008, the government sought support from Interpol with whose help the FIA cracked down all over Pakistan searching for persons involved in illegal smuggling of US dollars outside Pakistan.

Pedro Messía de la Cerda, 2nd Marquis of Vega de Armijo

He made his first voyage to the Americas in 1720, and in 1721 he was involved in the suppression of smuggling in Cartagena and Portobelo.

Pita Driti

Driti came to international attention on 6 November 2006, when he publicly accused the Qarase government of smuggling 400 kilograms of Australian arms and mercenaries into Fiji, and called on then-Commissioner of Police Andrew Hughes (an Australian) to answer for it.

R. v. Perka

At the same time, Samarkanda left from Tumaco, Colombia under the command of Marco Antonio Lopera-Penago with the intentions of smuggling cannabis to Juneau, Alaska.

Robert C. Brack

In July 2011, Columbus, New Mexico dissolved its police force, due to a gun smuggling scandal that involved its village officials and others.

Sea Urchins

Described as a saltwater Swallows and Amazons, it was shot on the Mahurangi Peninsula in the Hauraki Gulf, where the plucky “urchins” stumble on villanious plots from missing treasure to wildlife smuggling while holidaying with their uncle.

SITC

Smuggling Interdiction and Trade Compliance, a small, nationwide program within the United States Department of Agriculture, implemented to detect and stop the smuggling of agricultural commodities.

Spain in World War II

The rail station of Canfranc was the conduit for the smuggling of people and information from Vichy France to the British consulate in San Sebastián.

Steadroy Benjamin

A lawyer by training, Benjamin represented Ivor Bird, the brother of Prime Minister Lester Bird, following his arrest for the attempted smuggling of cocaine.

Tanju Çolak

In January 1994, he began a prison sentence of four years and eight months for illegally smuggling a Mercedes-Benz car into Ankara.

Teng Bunma

A 1996 article ("Medellin on the Mekong") in the Hong Kong-based Far Eastern Economic Review, by United States journalist Nate Thayer, described Teng Bunma as a significant figure in Cambodia's international drug-smuggling trade.

The Hendon Mob

Presenters Paul Wilson and Alexis Conran, posing as poker novices filming a documentary, beat the Mob by smuggling in decks stacked to their advantage.

The Real GoodFella

He speaks about phone calls from Robert De Niro, who played Jimmy Burke's character in the film Goodfellas, and his most recent criminal act, the smuggling of drugs through an airport terminal.

Thirteen Colonies

The royal officials responded to smuggling with open-ended search warrants (Writs of Assistance).

Tim Devlin

Tim Devlin, while a Tory MP, helped arrange a meeting in which Customs was ordered to drop charges against Middlesbrough drug trafficker Brian Charrington on drug-smuggling changes on 28 January 1993.

Tongues of Serpents

Tharkay asks to join them, eventually revealing that he has been tasked with tracking down a smuggling ring that operates out of China—and not out of Canton, the sole Chinese port open to foreigners.

Vern Clevenger

On April 13, 1977, Clevenger was arrested looting the crashed wreckage of a drug-smuggling airplane in Yosemite National Park.

Vincent Kenis

Vincent had to replace Berry Sakharof (of Minimal Compact) while the tour of their successful album, Deadly Weapons (that was out by Crammed), after Berry was arrest for 8 months in Israel in charge of smuggling cocaine.

Yair Klein

Yair Klein spent 16 months in a Sierra Leone prison between 1999 and 2000 on charges that he was smuggling arms to rebels from the Revolutionary United Front (RUF).


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