1.   Mexican and American law-enforcement officials say they are also seeing a worrisome rise in cocaine smuggling on big container ships.

2.   Several people who worked for the company or were associated with it also have criminal records, ranging from loan fraud to cocaine smuggling.

3.   The series linked the trend to the historic shift in cocaine smuggling from the Caribbean to the Southwest border.

4.   Other charges including racketeering, cocaine smuggling and destruction of an aircraft.

5.   A judge granted a U.S. extradition request Tuesday for a former Guyanese police officer charged with cocaine smuggling in New York.

6.   A flight attendant for KLM Royal Dutch Airlines has been convicted of cocaine smuggling and sentenced to four years in prison, a court spokeswoman said Friday.

7.   A man alleged to be a former member of a violent Jamaican gang that was blamed for hundreds of murders across the United States was convicted of cocaine smuggling.

8.   Authorities have been warning that cocaine smuggling routes have shifted recently from Mexico back to old haunts in the Caribbean and Bahamas.

9.   Customs agencies have reported a substantial increase in cocaine smuggling into Russia this year.

10.   Drug experts say cocaine smuggling through the Dominican Republic and adjacent Haiti has increased recently.