Drug Smuggling

Officers allegedly discovered 35 packages weighing nearly 100 pounds hidden in his driver’s seat, passenger seat and rear seats

Ovidio Guzman Lopez, who has been in custody in Mexico since early January, was indicted in April on charges of drug trafficking and other crimes.

A driver was taken into custody after attempting to smuggle a ton of methamphetamine worth more than $4 million across the border in a tractor-trailer containing Brussels sprouts, authorities said.

One seizure involved six pieces of luggage checked onto commercial flights that contained nothing but drugs. “They didn’t even put so much as a pair of underwear in there to hide it,” Florida’s Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd said.

Eighty-five people have been arrested and millions of dollars in illicit drugs seized in a smuggling operation that used checked bags on commercial flights from California to Florida, investigators said Friday.

A Jamaican national who supplied a JetBlue flight attendant with nearly 60 pounds of cocaine that she attempted to smuggle onto a plane at Los Angeles International Airport was sentenced Thursday to nearly 14 years in federal prison.

A former Transportation Security Administration officer pleaded guilty Friday to smuggling what he believed was methamphetamine through Los Angeles International Airport in exchange for $8,000.