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Drug smugglers are putting passenger jets at risk, as federal investigators in recent weeks have uncovered cocaine shipments hidden in secure electronics bays of some planes — key electronics areas critical to helping pilots control the planes.

Investigators have found drugs hidden in electronic bays that help pilots maintain control of the plane. NBC New York’s Jonathan Dienst reports on the attempts to stop the dangerous smuggling schemes.

Another former inmate at a federal prison in New Jersey has admitted his role in a scheme to use drones to smuggle drugs and other contraband to inmates into the facility. Johansel Moronta, 29, of Linden, pleaded guilty Monday to possessing and obtaining contraband while in prison and violating his federal parole. He faces more than a year in prison…

An increasing number of American citizens have been apprehended as they have tried to smuggle illegal drugs into the U.S. since the start of the coronavirus pandemic.

A collection of 33 artifacts seized from a New York-based art dealer who authorities say was one of the world’s most prolific smugglers of antiquities was turned over by the U.S. to the government of Afghanistan this week

A Brooklyn man was indicted Monday for allegedly smuggling hundreds of ancient Egyptian artifacts through JFK International Airport earlier this year. The United States Attorney’s Office says Ashraf Omar Eldarir arrived at the airport on Jan. 22 with three suitcases of what he claimed to U.S. Customs and Border Protection as goods valued at about $300. But when agents opened…

The Department of Homeland Security says a man tried to bring hundreds of ancient Egyptian artifacts through customs at JFK International Airport back in January.

The pangolin – an unusual bug-hunting endangered mammal with a long tongue and scales all over its body – has now entered the COVID-19 scientific journals because it carries a coronavirus that looks strikingly similar to the virus that has swept the world.

The man admitted in a plea deal that he bought three-toed and western box turtles from people in Oklahoma, then sold them for a profit

Federal prosecutors say a New Jersey man has pleaded guilty to smuggling more than 1,000 box turtles that were illegally collected in Oklahoma.

A woman smuggled contraband into Rikers by hiding them inside her baby’s diaper during a visit to the baby’s father. Surveillance video taken in April and released Wednesday shows the mother pass the baby to her father, an inmate at the infamous jail, during a visitation. The head of the city’s union representing correction officers on Wednesday told NBC 4...

A group that allegedly smuggled more than 300,000 pairs of fake Nike Air Jordan sneakers into New York and New Jersey was broken up Tuesday by Homeland Security Investigations and NYPD detectives.

A Monterey Park man was arrested today on federal smuggling charges stemming from the seizure of a package that contained three king cobras hidden in potato chip canisters.

The U.S. Coast Guard discovered six tons of marijuana and four suspected smugglers floating in two panga boats south of San Diego this week.