Authorities say they're holding mother-and-son smugglers who were kept a man captive because his family couldn't pay them. ...more

September 7, 2009

Smuggling illegal immigrants into Florida is not against state law, but the House has unanimously passed a bill to change that. ...more

April 24, 2009

I read that that President Felipe Calderón of Mexico is complaining that the U.S. is not doing enough to stop the flow of illegal weapons into his country. Perhaps he should consider putting up a fence at the border and plugging cross-border tunnels used by smugglers. ...more

March 3, 2009

Gaza's smugglers are going legit: Owners of the scores of tunnels running under the Gaza-Egypt border have registered with the Hamas authorities, pledged to pay workers' compensation and hooked up their operations to the electricity network. ...more

October 9, 2008

Working as part of a Tampa-based investigation, the Coast Guard this weekend seized a semi-submarine with 7 tons of cocaine aboard about 350 miles west of Guatemala in the eastern Pacific Ocean, officials said. ...more

September 15, 2008

ST. PETERSBURG - The crew of the Coast Guard Cutter Venturous returned to their homeport of St Petersburg this morning. They had been patrolling the waters of the Florida Straits for the past 30 days. ...more

July 11, 2008

A few months ago, it looked as if illegal immigration was going to be one of the major issues of this year's presidential election campaign. ...more

May 11, 2008

Robert Vesco, the American fugitive who cooked up moneymaking schemes that allegedly involved everyone from Colombian drug lords to the families of U.S. presidents, died in Cuba and was buried almost six months ago, according to an official document. ...more

May 6, 2008

Seven rare albino alligators disappeared from a Brazilian university zoo, and authorities suspect that animal smugglers stole them, officials said Friday. ...more

January 5, 2008

A man tied to two ships seized with 27 tons of cocaine in 2004 was arrested Sunday in Colombia and is expected to be extradited and tried in federal court in Tampa. The federal government has designated him as one of the top 30 international drug traffickers in the world and he has worked for a man on the FBI's 10-Most Wanted List. ...more

November 20, 2007