CRIM 412 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Heavy Equipment, Opiate, Cough Medicine
31 Jan 2020
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Number of stolen vehicles in canada each year is estimated at 160,000: 40% recovered. Primarily operate out of montreal and toronto: approximately 20000 stolen vehicles illegally exported each year; halifax, Primary supplied by organized crime groups in ontario and quebec. Approximately 22% of all cigarettes smoked in canada are illegal. Some are legitimately manufactured, smuggled and illicitly sold through aboriginal reserves. Us remains main supplier of smuggled firearms to canada, mostly foreign made products. Internet will become increasingly appealing as a method to smuggle firearms into. Movement of drugs and arms is often overlapping. Both terrorist and organized crime groups can be participants. Complicated by the ambivalent position of the united states concerning firearms. Earliest war against drugs in the united states was in response to opium. Became the primary ingredient in a number of medicines targeting a variety of ailments. The port los angeles will handle 130,000 containers a month.
