smuggling

New arrest in human smuggling deaths on the St. Lawrence River

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New arrest in human smuggling deaths on the St. Lawrence River

U.S. authorities on Sunday arrested the brother of the boat pilot who drowned along with eight members of two families during a March 2023 human smuggling run across the St. Lawrence River.  Timothy Oakes, the brother of Casey Oakes, is facing charges related to alien smuggling resulting in death and alien smuggling for financial gain, … Read more

U.S. says it has arrested one other Chinese language researcher accused of smuggling organic materials

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U.S. says it has arrested one other Chinese language researcher accused of smuggling organic materials

U.S. authorities said Monday that they had arrested a Chinese researcher accused of smuggling biological material into the country, the second such case in days. The FBI said in a criminal complaint that the researcher, identified as Chengxuan Han, a Chinese doctoral student at the College of Life Science and Technology at the Huazhong University … Read more