George Jung, the drug trafficker known as El Americano who inspired Johnny Depp’s film Blow and helped Pablo Escobar smuggle planeloads of cocaine into the United States, has died aged 78. The notorious cocaine smuggler died at his home in Boston on Wednesday morning where he was receiving hospice care. His cause of death was not … Read more
George Jung, the drug trafficker known as El Americano who inspired Johnny Depp’s film Blow, has died aged 78. The notorious cocaine smuggler died at his home in Boston on Wednesday morning where he was receiving hospice care. His cause of death was not immediately known but he had recently been battling liver and kidney failure, sources … Read more
‘An absolute disgrace’: Dancing With The Stars viewers erupt as convicted drug smuggler Schapelle Corby signs up for the show… as some threaten to BOYCOTT Seven’s new season By Nicole Douglas For Daily Mail Australia Published: 05:18 GMT, 1 March 2021 | Updated: 05:18 GMT, 1 March 2021 Channel Seven have received waves of backlash … Read more
Chameleon karma: Smuggler is caught trying to sneak 74 lizards into Austria by stuffing them into socks in his suitcase The man was arrested in Vienna after arriving on a flight from Tanzania He had stuffed the animals in ice cream boxes and socks for the long flight Experts believe the chameleons were destined for … Read more
A Romanian people smuggler accused of killing 39 Vietnamese migrants who suffocated to death in a lorry trailer was waiting for his own UK passport, a court heard today. Gheorghe Nica, 43, and Irish truck driver Eamonn Harrison, 24, allegedly caused the deaths of the non-EU citizens who suffocated in the back of a refrigerated … Read more
Some of the 39 people found dead in a lorry container in Essex were involved in an earlier foiled people-smuggling attempt, a court has heard. The Vietnamese men, woman and children, aged between 15 and 44, suffocated as they were transported from Zeebrugge in Belgium to Purfleet on October 23 last year. Jurors have heard … Read more
A people smuggler accused of killing 39 migrants who died in a lorry called another vehicle used to import illegal immigrants a ‘funeral car,’ a court heard today. Irish truck driver Eamonn Harrison, 23, and British-Romanian Gheorghe Nica, 43, are standing trial at the Old Bailey over the manslaughter of the Vietnamese immigrants who were … Read more
The first people smuggler convicted using evidence from surveillance drones over the Channel was jailed yesterday. Rebwar Ahmed, 36, was filmed by an ‘eye in the sky’ unmanned aircraft at the helm of a rigid-hulled inflatable boat crossing from France. The Iraqi’s conviction came as the Daily Mail was granted exclusive access to the nerve … Read more
The first people smuggler convicted using evidence from surveillance drones over the Channel was jailed yesterday. Rebwar Ahmed, 36, was filmed by an ‘eye in the sky’ unmanned aircraft at the helm of a rigid-hulled inflatable boat crossing from France. The Iraqi’s conviction came as the Daily Mail was granted exclusive access to the nerve … Read more
Drug smuggler Schapelle Corby enjoys a stretch and soaks up the view from hotel quarantine in Brisbane after leaving SAS reality show early because she was ‘iced out’ by fellow stars Convicted felon Schapelle Corby has been photographed in hotel quarantine The drug smuggler was spotted at Rydges Southbank at Brisbane on Saturday Unlike other … Read more