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He was America’s most amazing smuggler. The mastermind who landed sixty-seven tons of marijuana. Scoring two hundred million right under the DEA’s nose. Masterminds e7: A Smuggler Supreme, History 2003
Master smuggler Brain O’Dea lands the biggest haul of marijuana in US history. ibid.
He calls on his old friends the Shaffer brothers. To the world at large Bill and Kris Shaffer are rich playboys. In reality they are drug smugglers with world-wide connections. O’Dea convinces them to finance the deal to the tune of $10,000,000. ibid.
As O’Dea struggles to turn his life around the authorities spend six years of painstaking investigation to get enough evidence to arrest him. ibid.
Forty-nine people are brought to justice. ibid.
Jonathan Tokeley-Parry: The press called him Indiana Jones. A daring tomb-raider who looted ancient artefacts from Egypt. His accomplices idolised him as a master of deception. He was a top player in a dangerous game. Masterminds e25: The Cairo Caper
One of the most ingenious smugglers of the twentieth century. ibid.
He [Rik Luytjes] was the greatest smuggler in American history. His customised super-plane evaded sophisticated radar and outran government air patrols. And landed tons of drugs in the last place authorities expected. Masterminds e28: Air America
Landing billions of dollars of cocaine. ibid.
Air America … His Florida pot-smuggling days come back to haunt him … The only defendant the jury acquits. ibid.
‘This guy parked his car underneath my aeroplane. ibid.
The DEA makes its move on Air America and Rik Luytjes. ibid.
In the 1970s the black market in religious artefacts had exploded into a multi-million-dollar industry. The war-torn island of Cyprus was being picked clean. This is the story of how a sophisticated ring of smugglers ripped a sacred mosaic from the walls of a church then tried to hawk it on the open market. Little did they realise that their greed would trigger a global hunt for its recovery that would culminate in a daring police raid which uncovered $40 million in stolen artefacts, and change the trade in antiquities for ever. Art of the Heist s1e5: Den of Antiquities
The theft had all the hallmarks of a professional smuggling ring. ibid.
Inside the crates were fragments of a young Christ, Matthew, James and the archangel that had so captivated her [Peg L Goldberg]. ibid.
Judge Noland ruled that the mosaics belonged to the Church of Cyprus. ibid.
It was an elaborate swindle: disguising precision Egyptian antiquities as tourist souvenirs so they could be smuggled out of the country. Art of the Heist s2e2: The Pharaoh’s Head
They belonged in the government store in Egypt. ibid.
Ancient Egyptian artefacts began to flow freely from where they were discovered to collections in the West. ibid.
Jonathan Tokeley-Parry ... A reputation as a brilliant antique restorer. ibid.
Since the early ’80s professional British criminals have been smuggling cannabis from Morocco to the Costa del Sol. The Underworld: Drugs
During the last forty years the cannabis trade has grown beyond all recognition. ibid.
[Howard] Marks too was a user who graduating into dealing. ibid.
Krishnamma remained oblivious to an investigation by both police and customs ... Kris Krishnamma got a ten-year sentence. At the time it was the longest in Britain for a cannabis conviction. His case exposed a new trend. ibid.
For Radcliffe smuggling was a romantic experience. ibid.
Still on the run he [Howard Marks] had become a compulsive smuggler. ibid.
At the dawn of the ’80s vast profits were at stake. ibid.
In May 1980 Howard Marks was arrested. ibid
Ten of the fifteen tons that Marks had imported were recovered. ibid.
As the cannabis trade flourished the age of the gentleman smuggler came to an end. ibid.
This man is a world class smuggler here. Contraband 2012 starring Mark Wahlberg & Kate Beckinsale & Ben Foster & Diego Luna & Caleb Landry Jones & Giovanni Ribisi & Lukas Haas & J K Simons et al, director Baltasar Kormakur, bloke in club
A well-paid gang of smugglers had organised everything ... As a refugee Mengele could now go where he wanted. Hitler’s Henchmen s2e2: Mengele
Urban Smuggler: Andrew Pritchard: the riveting life story of one of the most prolific smugglers of our time ... His latest project is an online game. He markets himself as Britain’s most successful former smuggler. Angus MacQueen, Our Drugs War: Everyone’s At It, 2010
Millions of tons of narcotics are smuggled into the US every year. Extreme Drug Smuggling, Discovery 2011
From submarines to super-tunnels. ibid.
He’s a smuggler ... You don’t need papers or anything. Frozen River 2008 starring Melissa Leo & Misty Upham & Charlie McDermott & Michael O'Keefe & Mark Boone & James Reilly & Dylan Carusona & Jay Klaitz & Michael Sky & John Canoe et al, director Courtney Hunt, Lila to Ray
I’ll give you half now. Let’s go. Let’s go! There’s no border here; this is free trade between nations. ibid.
These smugglers, many of them present in trafficking through my State of Arizona, create false Social Security cards, false green cards, visas and a variety of other fraudulent documents as an essential part of their smuggling activities. John Shadegg
Secret passages, Arizona 14th February 2014: Federal authorities confiscate forty-six pounds of marijuana and a half-pound of heroin inside a small home along the US/Mexico border ... A four hundred and eighty-one foot drug-smuggling tunnel. America’s Book of Secrets: Secret Underground, H2 2014
Underground smuggling tunnels discovered along the US border. ibid.
The Balkans – war-ravaged, impoverished and traumatised – were about to be transformed into a smuggling and criminal machine that had few, if any, parallels in history. While the world wrung its hands and fretted over the terrible nationalist urges of the Yugoslav peoples and their leaderships, the Balkan mafias started putting aside their ethnic differences to engage in a breathtaking criminal collaboration. Misha Glenny, McMafia
Throughout most of the 1990s Djukanovic’s country, Montenegro, with a population of just 600,000 (regarded by the rest of the Balkans as a legendary indolent people), was the focal point of a multi-billion-dollar criminal industry that generated income from America through the Middle East, Central Asia, the Maghreb, the Balkans and Western Europe. ibid.
Week after week, several tons of illegal cigarette shipments would land at the country’s two main airports. ibid.
The Balkan cigarette trade was linked to the money-laundering of Colombian drugs money. ibid.
Washington was now telling him that if he wanted closer relations with NATO and the EU, it was time to get out of the cigarette business. ibid.
Anyone with any serious political ambitions had no choice but to get mobbed up. ibid.
The first illicit trade to emerge was the smuggling and production of liquor, but it was not long before the cash generated from booze was equalled from another commodity – gold. ibid.
At the end of the Second World War it was barely more than a coastal village that had survived largely on its wits since its only indigenous industry, pearl fishing, had been wiped out by the war and by the Japanese development of cultured pearls. ibid.
This goes back to Rashid, the legendary founder of modern Dubai, who reinvigorated Dubai’s role as a trading hub ... or smuggling as the rest of us called it. ibid.