California Democrat Gov. Gavin Newsom’s super PAC launched a misleading television ad in Tennessee on Friday, which uses fearmongering to spread misconceptions about a proposed bill designed to keep minors from being trafficked out of state for abortions without parental consent.
A leader within Japan’s Yakuza crime syndicate is accused of trafficking nuclear materials, including uranium and weapons-grade plutonium.
Republicans will “traffic babies” for financial gain in the event the Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade, according to left-wing Hollywood actress
Criminal gangs in Bolivia linked to the “Chinese mafia” are allegedly bribing police and customs officials to smuggle jaguar parts to China, a report by environmental groups claimed on Thursday.
Ghislaine Maxwell, Jeffrey Epstein’s ex-girlfriend, donated money to a hospital that treated one of his alleged victims, reports stated.
An Arizona body donation center is being sued after the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) discovered buckets of body parts during a raid at the facility in 2014.
Donald Trump’s policies helped slashed the cross-border flow of Central American migrants by 25 percent in June, according to the acting head of the Department of Homeland Security.
U.S. officials are pressuring Mexico to sign a “safe third country” deal that would help U.S. border officers quickly deport migrants, either back into Mexico or all the way back to their home countries.
Public speaker and film director Jaco Booyens told Breitbart News last week that an unsecured southern U.S. border emboldens human traffickers, adding that thirty percent of children smuggled across the border are sold into sex slavery.
A Guatemalan national in the U.S. illegally has been arrested Thursday night in Louisiana for allegedly raping, and trafficking an underage girl.
President Trump signed a bill Wednesday that would give more power to federal and state prosecutors to go after websites that allow sex trafficking ads on their pages.
Virginia police have busted a massive cigarette trafficking ring allegedly operated by primarily African and Middle Eastern migrants.
Unaccompanied child migrants brought to the UK from Calais are disappearing, feared to have been entrapped in slavery and prostitution by their traffickers.
Keith Papini, the husband of kidnapped-then-found California mom Sherri Papini, gave an exclusive interview to ABC’s 20/20 in which he discussed the ordeal their family has endured as they are now living at an undisclosed location.
U.S. and Mexican authorities arrested 467 people at the southwest border in a binational, multi-day effort cracking down on transnational criminal smuggling organizations working in and near Nogales.
On Monday, the Texas House passed on second reading HB 10, an omnibus anti-human trafficking bill, with a unanimous, bipartisan vote. The bill still needs a third reading but is expected to easily pass Tuesday morning and will be the first bill passed by the House this Session.
Calling them the “most significant drug dealers” he’d dealt with in two decades on the bench, U.S. District Chief Judge Ruben Castillo sentenced twins Pedro and Margarito Flores to 14 years each in prison for smuggling at least 71 tons of cocaine and heroin and nearly $2 billion in cash from 2005 to 2008 for Mexico’s Sinaloa Cartel. The Flores brothers served as the control point for the drug trafficking organization in the Windy City for years, and would have received life sentence had they not agreed to fully cooperate with U.S. authorities to bring down major players in the cartel.
Mexico’s drug war was completely rocked in February 2014 after news broke of the arrest of Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzmán Loera, the notorious long-time head of the Sinaloa cartel and arguably the most wanted man in the Western Hemisphere. But despite the U.S. government’s deep desire to prosecute and incarcerate Guzmán in the United States, Mexico’s attorney general announced the kingpin would not be extradited.
A shortage of women in China– triggered by a cultural desire for rearing boys and the state-imposed one-child policy, has created a fertile market for the trafficking of women and girls from Myanmar (the former Burma). Women and girls are trafficked for both forced marriage and adoption.
A disabled man from California has been sent to prison for using his wheelchair and special van to smuggle weapons and ammunition for the infamous Knights Templar cartel. A U.S. District judge in San Diego sentenced 53-year-old Sergio Garcia Rico
