31.   The sickly brood was part of a smuggling ring broken up in the Hong Kong harbor in December.

32.   The smuggling ring involved Montesinos as well as retired Peruvian military officers, the local media reported, adding that the intelligence service protected the officers.

33.   They could be held by the INS as material witnesses, as federal authorities investigate the smuggling ring that ferried them to the United States.

34.   Vargas said the suspect is being sought in connection with a large smuggling ring on both sides of the border.

35.   Without question, New Yorkers deplored the plight of the Mexicans who had fallen victim to a smuggling ring.

36.   Police have cracked a smuggling ring that allegedly moved hundreds of illegal immigrants from China into Canada and the United States over the past two years.

37.   Prosecution witnesses spoke of a vast smuggling ring, in which defendants used trucks and trailers to carry the weapons.

38.   Pitthaya said the smuggling ring was a big syndicate assisted by corrupt officials who helped them to eventually obtain registration documents.

39.   Police were investigating whether the confiscated marijuana was part of any organized smuggling ring in Japan, said an airport police spokesman on condition of anonymity.

40.   A Turkish smuggling ring then loaded the refugees onto an aging, Cambodian-registered freighter for the weeklong voyage by sea.