Sentence examples for single smuggler from inspiring English sources

Instead of paying a single smuggler to get him into the UK, he would go country by country, relying on his own wits and on an informal network of Middle Eastern smugglers and refugees that has spread right across Europe.

While a single wildlife hunter or smuggler might be captured, the middlemen and crime syndicates behind the trade are largely unknown and go unpunished.

Gangsters linked to Costa del Sol-based drug smuggler Christy Kinahan singled out Barr because they believed he supplied weapons including Kalashnikov rifles for the assault on the weigh-in in Dublin's Regency hotel.

"American counternarcotics strategy is completely mistaken," he said, contending that resources are often used to single out poor growers and smugglers while kingpins go free.

To get to the smugglers, migrants have no single set method.

But Indian customs officers are required to check only ten per cent of any large shipment of exports, and smugglers frequently bury a single priceless statue in a giant case of bric-a-brac.

The country's navy has a single aging ship to search for smugglers, and the head of the navy fled the country amid accusations that he was involved in the drug trade.

The smugglers had not lost a single document, but there remained several thousand manuscripts they could not shift.

Italy's coast guard said it co-ordinated the rescue of some 4,400 migrants in a single day, a record-setting number, as smugglers took advantage of ideal sea conditions off Libya to launch a fleet of overcrowded, unseaworthy boats.

When the surge in maritime smuggling began here around 2009, Admiral Schultz said, smugglers mostly used small boats with single engines that delivered their payloads to sites in San Diego County, rarely traveling more than 50 miles north of the Mexican border.

So far this year, more than 1,725 people have perished, including as many as 850 in a single incident over the weekend, many of whom smugglers had locked in a hold before the ship capsized.