Canadian police arrest 73 in organized crime sweep
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Canadian police arrested more than 70 people on Wednesday in raids targeting what officials said was a "traditional Italian" organized crime gang that had infiltrated Montreal's Pierre Trudeau International Airport.
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Egyptian security forces detained 73 members of the banned Muslim Brotherhood on Thursday in sweeps at dawn, intensifying a clampdown against the government's most powerful political rival.
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Italian police arrested 17 members of a mafia clan that operated in Canada and cities across Italy in a pre-dawn operation on Tuesday, police said.
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More than three dozen people have been arrested in connection with a ring suspected of smuggling $35 million in Colombian heroin to New York and New Jersey through Mexico.
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Dutch police arrest three suspects after a counterterror operation in The Hague.
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Police in Europe arrest 90 people as part of an operation to dismantle a drug-trafficking network.
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Police broke up an Italian-Canadian mafia clan that ran drug trafficking and money laundering operations, arresting 12 people on Tuesday and seizing millions of dollars in assets, officials said.
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VANCOUVER (CP) - Big-city police chiefs gave the public a report on the state of organized crime in Canada on Friday, but admitted it is a foggy snapshot of sophisticated operations that are hard for investigators to keep up with.
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MONTREAL (CP) - A provincewide sweep of marijuana fields has netted police more than 60,000 pot plants and 71 arrests.
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Italian police arrest 14 people suspected of smuggling thousands of illegal immigrants from north Africa.
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HALIFAX (CP) - The illegal trade in stolen and smuggled tobacco, once the work of lone, street-corner thugs, is a source of growing concern for police across the country now that organized crime is involved, a senior RCMP officer says.
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UN peacekeepers and Haitian police say 75 people have been arrested during a sweep aimed at curtailing violence in the capital city of Port-au-Prince.
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VICTORIA (CP) - Three people appeared in Victoria provincial court Friday on drug-conspiracy charges arising from an investigation linked to December's police raid at the B.C. legislature.
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Italian police arrested 17 members of a  mafia clan that operated in Canada and cities across Italy in a  pre-dawn operation on Tuesday, police said.
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Police have arrested 37 people and confiscated stashes of illegal firearms in a widespread raid on weapons bought illegally over the Internet, London's Metropolitan Police revealed.
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American and Italian authorities arrested dozens of people Thursday in a takedown of the remnants of New York's Gambino crime family also meant to cripple a trans-Atlantic drug trafficking operation run by the Mafia.
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More than 100 people are arrested in anti-Mafia operations in Italy and elsewhere, Italian police say.