2020年7月5日 · These are part of a growing number of ‘narco planes’ used to smuggle cocaine from South America. And Gulfstreams, as it happens, are quite popular with the smugglers. Analysis of nearly 40...

Behind the scenes at two of the country’s busiest international airports, a unique team of CBP officers tackles one of the agency’s greatest challenges, uncovering internal conspiracies with airline employees who use aircraft to smuggle illegal contraband.

Small Dark Aircraft: The Hunt for Drug-Smuggling Aircraft at our Borders Protecting our skies American airspace is highly regulated and restricted. Planes passing through—whether commercial or private— are required to identify themselves and provide proper cre-dentials so that they may be tracked and monitored.

2024年6月21日 · Increasingly, they said, migrants from outside Latin America are paying smuggling networks hefty fees for travel packages that can include airline tickets – on charter and commercial airlines –...

2020年10月2日 · Instead, an informant tipped off federal agents and blew up one of the nation's largest airborne domestic smuggling rings — one in which Carlson moved drugs for three years for the Sinaloa Cartel.

2025年2月12日 · The U.S. military has stepped up its aerial surveillance of Mexican drug cartels, carrying out at least 18 spy plane missions over the Southwestern U.S. and international airspace near Mexico's...

2022年3月16日 · Drug smugglers are putting passenger jets at risk, as federal investigators in recent weeks have uncovered cocaine shipments hidden in secure electronics bays of some planes — key electronics...

Federal efforts to control airborne drug smuggling are aimed at smugglers using private aircraft to transport illegal drugs from foreign countries into the U.S. and are priced at $200 million per year.

2016年11月4日 · In 1972 Seal was busted by the US Customs Service for attempting to smuggle 14,000 pounds of C-4 explosives into Mexico. The bomb-making material was destined for a CIA-trained cell of anti-Castro...

2022年2月14日 · Narco-trafficking into Europe has primarily been via maritime shipments to ports, but the use of private aircraft has also become an attractive smuggling method to both Europe and West Africa [7].