Brazil Police Stop Trafficking Ring
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Authorities have arrested 10 Brazilians accused of luring South American women to Spain and forcing them into prostitution, a federal police spokesman said Friday. via Tuscaloosa News
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Police killed at least 18 suspected drug traffickers in a massive operation Wednesday to serve arrest warrants and seize drugs and arms in a vast Rio de Janeiro shantytown, a state security official said.
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Brazilian police say they have arrested more than 50 hackers who stole $30m through internet fraud.
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Underworld figures fixed the results of Rio de Janeiro's carnival parade this year, according to Brazilian police. Press reports suggest that top criminals used bribes and a hitman to buy and intimidate members of the carnival jury.
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SHANGHAI, China - Police in southern China busted a criminal ring that used a cross-border sewage pipe to smuggle mobile phones and other electronics from Hong Kong, state media reported Thursday.
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RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil  - Brazilian federal agents arrested 75 state police troopers on Friday for links with organized crime in Rio de Janeiro state's high-profile bid to get rid of corrupt cops.
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Police patrolling the red-light district of the Belgian capital have been ordered to stop visiting brothels and drinking in bars when on duty.
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AMSTERDAM -- Authorities announced a major crackdown on organized crime in Amsterdam's Red Light District yesterday , for the first time allowing national police investigators and tax authorities to see the extent of what had long been seen as a local problem.
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Almost two dozen Romanians were arrested  on Thursday after police swooped on a child slave gang  operating in Britain.
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A top Brazilian police official is suspended over alleged links to militias formed from renegade security forces.
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BRASILIA -- The paper trail ends in an unmarked office in Brazil's federal police headquarters, where duffel bags full of confiscated files are heaped on the floor, waiting to be opened and analyzed.
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Brazilian police recovered two stolen paintings, including a valuable Picasso, and arrested two suspects on Tuesday, nearly three weeks after the works were snatched from the Sao Paulo Museum of Art.
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Metropolitan police arrest 18 people suspected of being part of Â£100m cocaine ring
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Police in eastern Bulgaria have arrested two men accused of running an illegal channel for trafficking and selling babies to childless families in neighboring Greece.
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South African police have dropped charges against a businessman accused of involvement in an international nuclear smuggling network.
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ALTAGRACIA DE ORITUCO, Venezuela  - Venezuelan police swooped down on an ambulance used by robbers escaping a bank siege on Tuesday, arresting all four men and freeing a group of captives to end a two-day hostage standoff.
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By Tiago Pariz and Daniela Machado BRASILIA, Brazil  - A Brazilian congressionalprobe accused 91 people, including a former central bank chiefand an ex-mayor of Sao Paulo, on Tuesday of involvement insuspected laundering of money from drug trafficking, smugglingand other crimes.