31.   A retired Surinamese army officer arrested Tuesday by Dutch police is a member of a Suriname-based cocaine smuggling ring, prosecutors alleged Friday.

32.   An Israeli was being held here Tuesday on an international arrest warrant following suspicions that he may have been laundering money for a multinational cocaine smuggling ring.

33.   Ashmore is a favored drop-off point for boatloads of asylum seekers because it is close to Indonesia, from where most people smuggling rings operate.

34.   As the leader of a drug smuggling ring, Garza was convicted of murdering Thomas Rumbo by shooting him five times in the head and neck.

35.   As the five sit stewing overnight in a holding cell, they plan a retaliatory jewel heist from a corrupt police smuggling ring.

36.   Athens has previously accused Ankara of being soft on drug and immigrant smuggling rings.

37.   Australian Prime Minister John Howard turned away the boat people as part of a crackdown on people smuggling rings that transport thousands of asylum seekers to Australia each year.

38.   Authorities had received tips that the farm appeared to be a major distribution point for a Mexican smuggling ring, Jordan said.

39.   Authorities arrested one man and were seeking three accomplices in a clandestine immigrant smuggling ring with ties to Italy and Eastern Europe.

40.   Border police in southern Bulgaria arrested two Turkish citizens connected to an international people smuggling ring, the government said Thursday.