Charges Tossed for Human-Smuggling Suspect
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A federal judge Thursday dismissed charges against one of three people on trial in a human smuggling attempt that left 19 illegal immigrants dead.
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Two men were convicted Thursday for their role in the nation's deadliest human smuggling attempt &#151; a journey that ended in the deaths of 19 illegal immigrants crammed in a sweltering tractor-trailer.
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Mexico has captured a drug lord  accused of handling half of the illegal drugs smuggled across  the border into the United States and who had a $2 million  price tag on his head, the government said on Monday.
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A federal judge on Thursday threw  out the charges against a Chinese American woman accused of  taking national security materials from her FBI agent lover.
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A former asylum seeker who exploited immigrant workers is convicted of money laundering.
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DNA taken from a child rape victim cleared a 23-year-old man charged in the case, prompting prosecutors to ask Wednesday for the charges to be dismissed.
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Officials dismissed a murder charge Tuesday against a sheriff's deputy accused of shooting an unarmed teenager who authorities believed had stolen video game consoles, after a grand jury foreman said he had checked the wrong box on the indictment paperwork.
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Prosecutors dropped a murder charge against a man who claimed to have lured drug dealers to his remote western Missouri cabin, killed them and spread their remains across the property.
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MIAMI, Oct. 6 -- Criminal charges against terrorism suspect Jose Padilla should be thrown out because of "outrageous government conduct" during his 3 1/2 -year detention in a Navy brig in South Carolina, Padilla's attorneys said in legal motions this week.
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SAN FRANCISCO - Military prosecutors agreed to drop an espionage charge against a Muslim interpreter accused of spying at the camp for terror detainees at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, his defense attorney said Wednesday.    Senior Airman Ahmad Al Halabi has pleaded guilty to four "minor infractions," his lawyer Donald Rehkopf Jr...
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan , Dec. 13 - A judge threw out terrorism charges on Wednesday against Rashid Rauf, a Briton of Pakistani descent whom prosecutors depicted as a major figure in a plot to smuggle liquid ...Comment
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Antoine Borg, 23, of St Andrew's, was yesterday charged with trafficking people in or out of Malta.
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Prosecutors dropped terrorism charges Tuesday against two Michigan men who were arrested after buying large numbers of cell phones, saying they couldn't prove a terrorism link.
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December 23, 2004 - A federal jury in Houston today convicted two men on the most serious counts related to a human smuggling attempt that left 19 people dead.
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An Armagh man is charged with money laundering linked to an alleged Â£5m fuel smuggling fraud.
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A federal jury on Thursday convicted two men of the most serious counts against them related to the nation&#39;s deadliest human smuggling attempt, which killed 19 illegal immigrants.
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An Iraqi-born American citizen was acquitted Friday of being an informant for former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, but was convicted of immigration violations.