Shipment of counterfeit watches stopped by Indianapolis US CBP
U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers at Indianapolis’ express consignment facility intercepted a shipment containing 96 counterfeit watches on July
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Month: August 2026
Operation Ironside: NSW man jailed over role in 498kg methamphetamine importation
A NSW man has been sentenced to 11 years and six months’ imprisonment, with a non-parole period of six years
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Brazilian Federal Police Modernizes Nationwide Forensic Examination with Regula Technologies
The Brazilian Federal Police has upgraded part of its forensic examination infrastructure with the latest generation of Regula technologies, a
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Two foreign citizens, discovered hiding in a semi-trailer
Border police officers in Giurgiu have discovered two Moroccan nationals hidden inside a Turkish-registered freight vehicle attempting to enter Romania,
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Cocaine Corridors Beyond Brazil: How Transnational Routes Are Reshaping Border Security Frameworks
A model built for maps, not institutionsFor most of the modern interdiction era, the cocaine corridor has been understood as
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US CBP officers seize over $1.1 million in cocaine at Laredo Port of Entry
U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Office of Field Operations officers at the Laredo Port of Entry seized cocaine that totaled over
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Bulgarian Customs officers seized over 200,000 cigarettes
Customs inspectors of the Ruse Customs Territorial Directorate seized more than 200,000 cigarettes during an inspection of a lorry in
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78 arrests in bust of major Western Mediterranean smuggling network in Spain
The criminal network operated like a logistics company managing two-way maritime smuggling of drugs, weapons and migrants between Europe and
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US CBP Air and Marine Operations interdict panga near San Clemente Island; one subject deceased
U.S. Customs and Border Protection Air and Marine Operations agents interdicted a panga-style vessel carrying 21 aliens near San Clemente
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Issue Alert – Your latest issue of Border Security Report has arrived
Download your copy of Border Security Report at www.border-security-report.com/BSR Please find here your downloadable copy of the July/August 2026 issue
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The Border Has Moved: Why the Future of Border Protection Is Predictive, Not Reactive
By: Gilad Ben Ziv, VP at Cognyte For decades, border security was a question of where to build the fence.
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Syrian migrant smugglers arrested in coordinated strike in Germany and Serbia
More than 900 migrants smuggled as international investigation targets senior facilitators A coordinated international operation has dealt a significant blow
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Albanian crime group duo jailed over cocaine and semi-automatic handgun
Two members of an Albanian organised crime group have been jailed for drugs and firearms offences. Zyber Tusha, 47, was
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US CBP arrests four after maritime smuggling attempt near La Jolla
San Diego Sector U.S. Border Patrol agents arrested four people after they illegally entered the United States aboard a maritime
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Twenty people arrested after the seizure of 23 tons of loose tobacco in Ciudad Real
The Spanish Civil Guard and the Tax Agency, as part of Operation ‘Principito’/’Tajuli’, have arrested 20 people for tobacco smuggling,
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US CBP Officers at IAH seize nearly $9 million in counterfeit FIFA World Cup 2026™ merchandise
U.S. Customs and Border Protection announced today that officers from the IAH Trade Enforcement Team have seized nearly 20,000 items
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A criminal organization that laundered more than four million euros from scams by sending the money to Nigeria has been dismantled
The Spanish Civil Guard has dismantled a criminal organization specializing in laundering money obtained from scams committed both in Spain
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Operation SKYDROP – Intercepted container ship with five tons of cocaine
The PJ | Polícia Judiciária carried out a police operation, in close coordination and cooperation with the Marinha Portuguesa –
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