Criminology and Psychology

Three days into the job, he is killed by 25 gunmen. This happened hours after the a smuggling tunnel was discovered running from Tecate, Mexico to the United States. No ties have actually been made to the tunnel and the Police Chiefs' murder, but one can draw logical conclusions that is the reason, the owner of the tunnel lost not only the tunnel but 5 million in marij More..uana stored there.

Four crewmen from a semisubmarine captured in June pleaded guilty today to federal drug charges.The crewmen were aboard the third semisub interdicted this year. The 50- to 60-foot vessel was spotted June 16 by a Marine patrol unit in the eastern Pacific northwest of the Ecuador-Colombia border.By the time the Coast Guard arrived, the sub's crew members were in the water and the vessel was sinking, a federal prosecutor has said. Crew members later told investigators they were instructed to scuttle the vessel after they spotted an airplane circling overhead. Guardsmen managed to get some bales of cocaine out of the sub before it slipped into the sea.Crew members told agents the vessel had 6 to 8 tons of cocaine onboard that was to be delivered to a Mexican fishing vessel 700 miles off the coast of Colombia, according to plea agreements signed by the four defendants.One of the crew members told agents he was paid 40 million pesos, or about $23,500; another said he was paid 30 million ...

Daniel Barerra,aka The Madman.The Madman Barerra has become one of the two powerful drugs traffickers in the country, moving multi-ton shipments of cocaine every month. He has made alliances with the powerful Marxist rebels of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (Farc), which supply him with much of the coca base he processes into cocaine. Barerra is known to move through the eastern plains of Colombia and into Venezuela, where he often bases himself, out of reach of the Colombian security forces and the US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA). President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela does not cooperate with the US anti-drug agencies and the Colombian drug lords like Barerra have taken advantage of this to not only turn Venezuela into one of the principal transit nations for cocaine bound for Europe, but to live there beyond the reach of Colombian and international law enforcement agencies. "We can categorically state that this seizure of 10 and a half tons of cocaine is a might...

Cambodian court has sentenced a Taiwanese man to 22 years in jail for trying to smuggle heroin out of the country.Judge Chhay Kong at Phnom Penh Municipal Court says he sentenced Liao Ichun after finding him guilty of trying to smuggle 240 grams of the drug into Taiwan.A number of Taiwanese nationals have been detained and jailed for trying to smuggle heroin through the airport in the Cambodian capital over the past year.Although drug arrests have increased, Cambodia is becoming an increasingly popular trafficking point for methamphetamine and heroin, particularly since Thailand toughened its stance on illegal drugs in 2002.

Europe is being flooded by smuggled Russian-made cigarettes worth at least $1 billion a year, an international investigation has discovered. * * * The new underground smoking trade involves only one brand, Jin Ling, which is turning up in more cities and countries across Europe every month. Jin Ling, virtually unknown to the authorities three years ago, has grown so rapidly that law enforcement officials say it now rivals Marlboro as the top smuggled brand being seized in the European Union. * * * It is only sold illegally — smuggled by gangs who hope to pocket immense profits by selling unlicensed, untaxed cigarettes on black markets across Europe. * * * The scale and striking growth of Jin Ling smuggling has marked it as a major new development in organized crime, prompting European customs agencies to respond by launching “Operation Baltic” early in 2008. * * * German customs and police investigators believe that Jin Ling is being distributed and sold through organized crime network...

Anchorage resident Bret W. Hendren, 46, was charged with helping the leader of a drug- trafficking outfit, Thomas Ranes, conceal the source of $93,000 in cash by using it as a down payment on a motor home and trailer, prosecutors said. Ranes gave Hendren the cash in $5,000 increments; in one case the cash smelled of marijuana, prosecutors said. Prosecutors say Hendren took a total of about $150,000 in cash from Ranes, who is serving a 30-year sentence for his role in the operation. Hendren is facing up to 20 years in prison at his sentencing Feb. 3.

Danielle Haylor, 29, from Squirrel Close, Langley Green, denies attempting to supply the Class A drug to convicted armed robber Tim Cole.She also denies possessing 23 tablets of diazepam, a Class C drug better known as Valium, which is illegal without a prescription.Prosecutors say she posted a book to Cole in Lewes Prison, with 3.17g heroin hidden inside the spine, in January last year.A jury at Hove Trial Centre was told that the heroin was 40 per cent pure, and there was enough for more than 30 doses, costing £10 each.Interviewed by police, Haylor told them she had sent CDs, clothes and books to Cole in jail, but denied sending him any drugs.In a transcript of the interview, read out by prosecutor Walton Hornsby and DC Nick Jones, Haylor said that on two occasions she had sent Cole a package from a friend of his.She denied touching or even seeing the contents, but said she thought she was sending him more books.Haylor said she had visited Cole in prison, both at Highdown and Lewes.A...