Sentence examples for major smuggling from inspiring English sources

Law enforcement officials said the fatal operation appeared to have been her first major smuggling run.

Iraqi intelligence officials confirm that Isis uses Anbar province, which shares a border with Jordan, as a major smuggling hub.

It is also a major smuggling route for much of the heroin travelling northwards into Central Asia and then into Russia and Europe.

On the Pakistani border the town of Baramcha — a major smuggling hub and Taliban stronghold — remains untouched by regular military units.

Another sanctuary and major smuggling hub, Baramcha, lies on the border with Pakistan, about 70 miles south of the closest regular Marine unit.

Who else would be up there?" The Coronado National Forest, despite its thick forest cover and high altitudes, is in fact a major smuggling route for both drugs and migrants.

In recent years, however, it also became a way station along one of Mexico's major drug smuggling routes.

Iran's border with Afghanistan is a major drug smuggling route, and American officials recognize that Tehran does not have complete control over that region.

The Colombian police said they had dismantled the private army of Carlos Mario Jiménez, a paramilitary warlord who is awaiting extradition to the United States, by arresting 147 people believed to be protecting a major cocaine smuggling ring.

The trial of a reputed Italian Mafia boss suspected by Italian authorities of major cigarette smuggling has brought to the surface tensions between Switzerland and its European Union neighbors over contraband.

But it was out of this apartment house at 183 Quinnipiac Street, and an apartment building a couple of blocks away at 70 Center Street, that the F.B.I. said a major cocaine smuggling ring with ties to Mexico's most ruthless drug family -- the Tijuana-based Arellano Félix organization -- operated.