Ahmed Haouchar is one of five men arrested and charged after 100kg of cocaine was seized from a passenger plane which had arrived from South Africa on Saturday.
Marius Mihai Draghici was the ringleader's right-hand man and an "essential cog" in an operation that made huge profits exploiting people desperate to get to the UK.
The 24 bright green baby parrots began chirping and bobbing their heads the second anyone neared the large cages that have been their homes since hatching in March.
James "Jimmy" Blee, 62, was initially arrested attempting to board a flight to Singapore in May, after the diver was found next to a $20 million cocaine haul.
Rescue workers rushing to a highway accident in southern Mexico found a horrific scene: A tractor trailer jammed with as many as 200 migrants crashed into the base of a steel pedestrian bridge, killing 55 and injuring dozens
Billionaire US hedge fund manager Michael Steinhardt has agreed to turn over US$70 million ($97.95 million) worth of stolen antiquities and will be subject to an unprecedented lifetime ban on acquiring antiquities, the Manhattan district attorney announced this week.
Hong Kong authorities said that they had seized a total of more than 1800kg of live lobsters and sea cucumbers, months after Beijing restricted imports of the crustaceans from Australia.
Australian rock lobsters smuggled into mainland China pose a national security threat for the rising superpower, Hong Kong's new Customs chief official has declared.
A professional bodybuilder who supplied prisoners with contraband when he was a corrections officer has managed to avoid getting his own jail sentence.
Despite Australian lobsters being banned by Chinese authorities, demand for them continues to be strong, with some being smuggled into mainland China, reports say.
Texas police officers following up on a kidnapping report found more than 90 people jammed in a two-story home in what authorities said turned out to be a possible human smuggling operation.
A man who imported 113 kilograms of methamphetamine, hidden inside boxes of avocado pulp, has been sentenced to almost 11 years in prison in New Zealand.
Two members of an international people-smuggling gang have been convicted of manslaughter over the deaths of 39 people who were found in the back of a container truck in southeastern England.
A Melbourne man has been jailed for 10 years for attempting to possess nearly 300kgs of the drug MDMA smuggled from overseas inside bags of coffee beans.
Police in Vietnam have arrested eight people in connection with the deaths of 39 people found dead in a truck in England last month, Vietnamese state media reported.
Maurice 'Mo' Robinson will stay in police custody for another month, charged with the manslaughter and trafficking of 39 people found dead in a UK truck trailer.
Three people arrested in the UK over the alleged manslaughter and trafficking of 39 people found dead in a truck trailer have been released on bail. hours after a driver was charged.
Federal authorities say a 39-year-old Connecticut man has been caught trying to smuggle nearly three dozen live finches through John F. Kennedy Airport in order to sell them for singing competitions.
A court has been told one of Sydney’s leading horse race owners used a secret phone and coded language to direct a multi-million dollar cocaine smuggling ring.
The son of Kings Cross identity John Ibrahim has been cleared of involvement in an illegal tobacco smuggling ring which allegedly involved two of his uncles.
The Australian Border Force are on the front lines of our national security – and now, A Current Affair has been given an up-close look at what that entails.