He said: "It's like a cottage industry, apart from the fact the illicit salvage boats are dealing with substantial wrecks.
"It's like a cottage industry, apart from the fact the illicit salvage boats are dealing with substantial wrecks," Andy Brockman, an archaeologist, told the Guardian newspaper.
You hear of illicit night-time boat trips out into the bay, people wrapped in dark blankets, like a dirty smuggler's cargo, jumping from one boat to another, all the while bribing the petrified boat man to make the trip.
This would involve identifying and confiscating not only the funds that the cartels use to conduct their criminal activity, but also the assets that cartel members have purchased with illicit profits: houses, ranches, airplanes, boats, vehicles and otherwise legitimate businesses.
Originally designed to deprive suspected real-life Scarfaces of the spoils of their illicit trade -- houses, cars, boats -- it now regularly deprives people unconnected to the war on drugs of their property without due process of law and in violation of the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments.
The Mexican authorities began investigating Mr. Zhenli in December, after discovering an illicit shipment of pseudoephedrine on a boat in the port of Lázaro Cárdenas, prosecutors say.
Will EU helicopter pilots be able to tell the difference between boats sometimes used for illicit trafficking and those whose owners stay away from the criminals?There are diplomatic trouble spots to be negotiated as well.
Will the EU force's helicopter pilots be able to tell the difference between boats that are sometimes used for illicit trafficking and those that are put exclusively to honest purposes?There are diplomatic obstacles, too.
The island's name is said to derive from Prohibition, when the illicit cargo ditched by bootleggers trying to outrun patrol boats would wash up there.
But anyone who might have signed up looking for something sexy or even illicit — for a Love That Dare Not Speak Its Name Boat — well, that ship had left the harbor.
