1.   A boatload of Cubans interdicted at sea might be eager to be brought to shore to testify in a smuggling case.

2.   Alien smuggling cases are difficult to prosecute because often the only witness to the crime is the smuggled human cargo.

3.   But until this week, there was no mention in the mainstream Chinese media of the smuggling case.

4.   Eleven others in the smuggling case have been sentenced to death, and Lai would be almost certain to receive that sentence.

5.   If the unusual smuggling case goes to trial, testimony will be about Mexican tiger beetles, not Colombian cocaine.

6.   Investigators said the five defendants played various roles in the smuggling case.

7.   It is the fourth large smuggling case in three years involving American.

8.   Like many federal smuggling cases in West Texas, this one involved a stealthy investigation and an undercover buy.

9.   Nor would they explain why his case, unlike other smuggling cases, was singled out for a report by the New China News Agency.

10.   Others described a huge smuggling case in which Ruiz Massieu and his deputy exonerated corrupt Mexican police agents.