11.   They were charged with selling and conspiring to sell heroin and conspiring to smuggle illegal aliens, and face a maximum sentence of life in prison if convicted.

12.   Thirteen others have pleaded guilty in Manhattan to charges ranging from kidnapping to smuggling aliens.

13.   Velez was later indicted in a massive scheme to smuggle illegal aliens.

14.   A former Quincy resident was sentenced Wednesday to four years in prison on charges that he helped smuggle Chinese aliens into New Bedford.

15.   Also, in December, a federal indictment in Tennessee accused the company and six of its managers of conspiring to smuggle illegal aliens into the country.

16.   Besides drug trafficking, Albanian mobsters are also suspected of smuggling illegal aliens.

17.   Customs Comptroller Kather Smith said the government seized the boat because it believes it was used for smuggling illegal aliens.

18.   Evodio Manilla Cabrera faces three charges of smuggling aliens into the United States.

19.   He was charged Friday with various crimes including negligent homicide and smuggling illegal aliens into Germany.

20.   Smuggling illegal aliens carries a maximum one-year jail term in the Netherlands.