trafficking

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Earlier this month, the Justice Department announced that a Daly City man suspected of purchasing and exporting hundreds of poached turtles from Florida was facing federal wildlife trafficking charges.

From Los Angeles Times • May 29, 2026

The United States and Brazil signed an agreement in April to combat arms and drug trafficking, and Lula had acknowledged that Trump had asked him for greater cooperation.

From Barron's • May 29, 2026

In August 2022, Jose Manuel Perez pleaded guilty in federal court to one count of smuggling goods into the country and one count of wildlife trafficking.

From Los Angeles Times • May 29, 2026

The current trafficking legislation was not in place at the time of the allegations.

From BBC • May 28, 2026

The government forbade any trafficking in Indian antiquities and had given the priest a general concession, authorizing him to catalogue whatever he found and hand it over to the museum.

From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende