“Smuggling” on The Daily Caller

ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — As thousands of football fans descend on Texas for Sunday’s Super Bowl, law enforcement agencies are keeping watch for a different kind of out-of-town visitor: pimps selling children for sex. (more)

Drugs via Catapult? The idea of using a medieval device to overcome the high-tech fence between the United States and Mexico is too improbable for even a most outlandish Hollywood thriller. (more)

NEW YORK (AP) — The Federal Aviation Administration is missing key information on who owns one-third of the 357,000 private and commercial aircraft in the U.S. — a gap the agency fears could be exploited by terrorists and drug traffickers. (more)

A German man has been charged with smuggling hundreds of tarantulas into the United States through the mail, netting more than $300,000, authorities said Friday. (more)

Customs officials seized eight rare falcons at the Moscow airport after a woman tried to smuggle the wrapped, boxed birds out of the country, the International Fund for Animal Welfare reported. (more)

WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal campaign to stop the smuggling of high-powered guns to Mexico is too narrowly focused on small-time gun runners and not the larger organizations suspected of arming Mexico’s increasingly violent drug cartels, the Justice Department’s inspector general said Tuesday. (more)

While the 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution outlawed slavery and indentured servitude in 1865, both practices are alive and well today in U.S. Government combat zone contracting. That’s despite the fact that a law that was designed to end these abhorrent practices has now been in place for ten years. (more)

Federal authorities discovered a tunnel linking drug warehouses in San Diego and Tijuana that led to the seizure of more than 25 tons of marijuana, one of the largest-ever drug seizures in San Diego, officials said. (more)

Ask Americans about the pedestrian fencing and vehicle barriers along the Mexican border and brace yourself for a torrent of opinion.  Some will say they’re necessary; others will say they’re ugly.  Some will say they’re an effort to stem massive law breaking; others will say they’re symbols of an immigration system in collapse. (more)

ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Authorities in Nigeria say as many as 40,000 girls and women have been trafficked to nearby West African countries to serve as sex workers. (more)

This story could go into the “San Diego’s Dumbest Criminals” file. A Lakeside man goes to visit his son in a Colorado prison and ends up behind bars himself on suspicion of smuggling drugs. (more)

A federal agency is setting its sights on Dallas as it fights the flow of U.S. guns into Mexico’s violent drug wars. (more)

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s capture of two rival drug gang leaders in two weeks may mark a new trend in the country’s drug war, an official said Monday: drug lords surrendering without a fight when surrounded. (more)

MEXICO CITY (AP) — A former Texas high school football player and petty street dealer who allegedly rose to become one of Mexico’s most savage assassins says he personally knew the country’s top drug lords and shipped cocaine from Colombia through Panama. (more)

LOS ANGELES — Authorities are searching for a man suspected of smuggling protected wildlife species, including piranhas. (more)

A Quincy woman was cuffed at the Quincy District Court yesterday after she allegedly smuggled a hypodermic needle into the courthouse in her bra as part of a scheme to pass heroin and cigarettes to her jailed boyfriend, police said. (more)

A man with a mysterious bulge under his T-shirt was stopped, searched and detained at Mexico City’s international airport after authorities found 18 tiny endangered monkeys in a girdle he was wearing. (more)

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — A 100-foot (33-meter), twin-screw diesel submarine seized at a jungle shipyard in Ecuador marks a quantum, if anticipated, leap in drug-smuggling evasion technology, the top U.S. counter-drug official for the region said Sunday. (more)

Arizona Republican Gov. Jan Brewer created a frenzy in April 2010 when she signed a law that makes being an illegal immigrant a state crime and requires legal immigrants to carry papers that confirm their status. Then in late June, she linked illegal immigrants and drug smuggling. (more)

EL PASO, Texas (AP) — A 15-year-old Mexican boy shot and killed by a U.S. Border Patrol agent was among El Paso’s most wanted juvenile immigrant smugglers, according to federal arrest records reviewed by The Associated Press. (more)