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Cartel members hatched a plan to smuggle cocaine across the Tijuana border to Los Angeles on large trucks inside jalapeño cans. — Nicole Hong, WSJ, "What El Chapo’s Trial Revealed: The Inner Workings of a $14 Billion Drug Empire," 12 Feb. 2019 But a relative in the United States gave Lourdes a phone number for a coyote, a person who charges a fee to smuggle people into the United States. — Daniel González, azcentral, "The U.S. deported this mother to Guatemala. It kept her 6-year-old son.," 2 July 2018 While drug-trafficking organizations for years have used teenagers to smuggle narcotics across the border, the involvement of juveniles in smuggling fentanyl is raising new alarm. — Sandra Dibble, sandiegouniontribune.com, "Teen fentanyl arrests at San Diego border spur push to warn underage smugglers," 5 Apr. 2018 Vision Beyond Borders is one of a number of missionary groups that do semi-covert missionary work in countries whose governments are often hostile to Christianity, and are best known for actions like smuggling Bibles into places such as China. — Grant Peck, The Seattle Times, "Evangelical group says 3 US volunteers detained in Laos," 13 Apr. 2019 He and four other inmates were using phones smuggled into prison to move large quantities of methamphetamine from California to South Carolina. — Sherri A. Lydon, WSJ, "Let States Jam Prison Cellphones," 3 Apr. 2019 Several others were also arrested for using a similar method to smuggle K2 and synthetic amphetamines into a Polk County Jail, according to FOX 35 Orlando. — Ryan Gaydos, Fox News, "Dangerous 'drug' trend infiltrating Florida prisons, sheriff says," 12 Sep. 2018 Virginia Cagley previously said her husband fled because he was threatened by other inmates who wanted him to smuggle marijuana into the prison and because somebody tried to break into her trailer. — Paul Davenport, chicagotribune.com, "Iowa mulls case of Arizona man who fled prison decades ago," 10 June 2018 However, authorities have noticed an uptick in attempts to smuggle heroin into the jails, a trend officials attribute only partly to the reduction in prescription opioids. — Kristina Davis, sandiegouniontribune.com, "Weaning the county jail population off opioids," 23 Apr. 2018These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'smuggle.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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