Since Oct. 1, over 140 migrants have died in the El Paso Sector of the Border Patrol, many succumbing to the extreme heat in the southern New Mexico desert. The new aerostat is being deployed to address the same issue.

"Migrants are often found in conditions that are not worthy of humans" said Mark Lippa, Deputy Special Agent In Charge at Homeland Security

Her husband, who's accused of co-leading the operation, was indicted last week

The men initially told investigators they went to the U.S. to sell goats and buy clothes

A new x-ray machine is set to help authorities catch drivers attempting to smuggle cargo

Alerts for crime and corruption in Latin American airports surged by 147% between 2021 and 2023

The men were charged with conspiracy to straw purchase firearms and smuggling weapons across the border, the Texas Tribune Reported

Ghana, the world's second biggest cocoa producer, faces a growing risk to its harvest -- and blow to its crisis-hit economy -- from illegal mining and smugglers, industry officials, farmers and activists warn.

This initiative is a joint effort by the Amazon nations to combat criminal activity in the world's largest rainforest.

The bird smuggling defendant Szu Ta Wu pleads guilty and faces a potential 20-year sentence.

President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said a shipment containing the drug was stopped in the Pacific port of Lázaro Cárdenas.

Two Mexican women reportedly pleaded guilty to smuggling 1000 grams of heroin in potato chip bags. 

A car crash near the border in Texas has led to the death of three people.

Fetty Wap may face life behind bars after his indictment on drug trafficking charges over his alleged involvement in distributing more than 100 kilograms of heroin, fentanyl, cocaine, and crack cocaine across Long Island and New Jersey.

Yuan Xie, a Chinese national living in California, has been sentenced on Thursday for attempting to smuggle 769 endangered turtles to China.

A jail officer who reportedly had sexual relations with an inmate has been arrested for attempting to smuggle meth into prison.

A Boston federal court has sentenced a Texas man to 41 months in prison on Friday for leading the illegal importation of raw steroids from China, which were sold online to customers across the United States.

A federal court in Brooklyn has sentenced a Colombian national to more than 17 years behind bars for conspiring to internationally distribute cocaine and sell them at higher prices for shipping the drugs closer to U.S. soil, United States District Judge Edward R. Korman bared on Wednesday. 

A U.S. citizen living in Tamaulipas, Mexico, will serve a 70-month sentence in federal prison for importing meth into the United States, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Jennifer B. Lowery on Tuesday.

An inmate serving time for drug offenses was thrown back to closed prison on Friday night after police found that he was smuggling a female sex worker for an intimate encounter inside his cell at the HMP Hollesley Bay in Suffolk, England.

An armored truck company CEO has been embroiled in a money-laundering case extending from Latin America to South Florida after he allegedly facilitated the importation of thousands of kilograms of illegally sourced gold from Venezuela, according to a criminal complaint affidavit released on Tuesday.

Harrowing images of dead bodies of children and infants washed up on a beach in Libya have emerged in recent times as the United Nations slams the European Union on how it deals with Libya's worsening migrant crisis.

Three are dead and 27 injured after a suspected smuggling vessel capsized off the coast of San Diego.

Crack, cocaine and cannabis found in package strapped on cat used to mule drugs into notorious Nueva Esperanza Prison.

José Emiliano was sentenced in the case of smuggling people across the U.S.-México border.

Several types of drug- and immigrant-smuggling cases were not prosecuted in the first three days in the government shutdown.

A Canadian woman tried to smuggle drugs from Colombia to Canada in a fake pregnancy belly.

Authorities say Ibarra, 31, admitted to having a package of methamphetamine concealed inside of her body after she was patted down by customs agents.

The brothers were found guilty in 2012 for smuggling migrants across the US-Mexico border using Border Patrol vehicles. A San Diego judge will decide their sentence today.

Where did the fake nuns hide cocaine?