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Record cocaine seizure at Philadelphia airport

by AbcLocal

Customs officers at Philadelphia International Airport have seized 130 pounds of cocaine, with a street value of about $4 million.

Record $1.15 mln counterfeit seizure in Canada

by The Province

Police have seized more than $1 million in fake $100 bills and arrested four men as part of one of B.C.'s largest counterfeiting busts.

USA: Organized crime now getting into recycling

by Washington Post

Mobsters have a long history of making a killing in the garbage-hauling business, but a New Jersey commission says they have gone green by infiltrating the commercial recycling business.

U.S. busts ring that forced Russian women into strip clubs

by New York Post

A mob-run ring that lured women from Russia and other Eastern European countries with the promise of waitressing jobs — only to send them to dance at New York strip clubs — was shut down Wednesday after 20 people were charged

Slain mobster ‘exported construction fraud’

by The Gazette

Salvatore Montagna led Bonanno family in New York, returned to Montreal in 2009

Mexican drug cartel tries to silence internet

by NPR

Mexico's hyperviolent Zetas drug cartel appears to be launching what may be one of the first campaigns by an organized crime group to silence commentary on the Internet.

International organized crime ring dismantled in Canada

by Canada Newswire

Eight individuals allegedly belonging to an Asian Organized Crime group were arrested following an investigation. It is alleged that this organized crime group is responsible for shipping numerous containers of counterfeit cigarettes and drug precursors

US jury convicts former Russian arms dealer Bout

by Reuters

A U.S. jury found former Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout guilty on Wednesday on charges he agreed to sell arms to people he thought were Colombian militants intent on attacking American soldiers.

Arms and investigators: tracking Viktor Bout

by 100Reporters

The long awaited trial for the world’s most notorious weapons smuggler, Viktor Bout, will begin this morning at 10:00 am in the Federal Courthouse for the U.S. Southern District of New York. I’ll arrive early, before the TV journalists set up their cameras and the court reporters bound up the courthouse stairs to take their seats in the gallery.

111 arrested, charged in $13 mln scheme

by BankInfoSecurity

The biggest ID theft bust in history is the result of equally impressive international cooperation, observers say.