Today’s bizarre smuggling story comes from Sky News: Acting on a tip-off, officers stopped a Turismo Ejecutivo SRL bus outside the city of Tarapoto in the central jungle state of San Martin, officials said. Police were puzzled when they found the turkeys in the crate, but didn’t find the cocaine, Tarapoto’s anti-drug police chief Otero [...]
Last month, pirates attacked the M/V Aqua, a river cruise ship operated by Aqua Expeditions. The caper must’ve paid well for the crooks because they’ve done it again. As reported by the Daily Mail: Masked men with guns and hand grenades have robbed a group of British tourists in a terrifying dawn raid on a [...]
Pirate attacks — those media darlings of Spring 2009 — are no longer confined to the east coast of Africa. From Travel Weekly: Aqua Expeditions said the Aqua, its Amazon river cruise ship, was boarded Sunday by six armed bandits who robbed passengers of money and valuables. There were 24 passengers, including six Americans, and [...]
