Sentence examples for traffickers link from inspiring English sources

Second, there is the risk that drug traffickers link up with other criminal elements or, worse, terrorist groups that may be trying to infiltrate and destabilise the region.

The D.E.A. cobbled together informant networks and undercover operations aimed at traffickers linked to the insurgents.

Mr. Costa chastised Afghan officials and Western nations for not adding one name to a United Nations Security Council list of major drug traffickers linked to terrorism.

The agents had set up the sting operation in the hope they could trace the smuggled guns to high-ranking traffickers linked to drugs cartels.

In Mexico, an unavoidable part of any overland journey to the U.S. border from the south, Cubans fall prey to traffickers linked to the violent drug gangs there, at times with corrupt police involvement.

Italy has handed its first life sentence to a trafficker linked to the deaths of migrants in the Mediterranean.

The prosecutor's office confirmed that the man is Claude Hermant, an alleged arms trafficker linked to the extreme-right, while the other is said to be his partner.

In the late eighties, Lozada went to Ecuador with a group of guerrillas to kidnap a wealthy narco-trafficker linked to the Cali cocaine cartel.

This four-part mini-series on drugs in America begins with an examination of how cocaine is produced and distributed -- from peasant farmers who make cocaine paste to a trafficker linked to Mexican cartels to a dealer in Miami.

Brazilian law enforcement officials have said Mr. da Costa built a drug empire though a mix of street smarts and ruthlessness, rising from a marijuana dealer to a major cocaine trafficker linked to guns-for-drugs deals.

It was not immediately clear whether the current detention is also related to this previous case that reportedly involved a drug trafficker linked to one of Sao Paulo's most dangerous criminal gangs, the PCC, or First Command of the Capital.