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Byline: Peter Hermann A corrections officer at the D.C. jail and three people awaiting trial in murder and assault cases have been indicted on charges of smuggling contraband into the [...]

Byline: Annabelle Timsit A celebrity handbag designer who pleaded guilty to illegally importing bags made from the skins of protected crocodiles and snakes was sentenced to 18 months in prison, [...]

Byline: Peter Whoriskey U.S. authorities announced on Thursday that they have secured a $12 million forfeiture agreement from the daughter of accused antiquities smuggler Douglas Latchford, a man federal prosecutors [...]

Byline: María Luisa Paúl Last year, when an Arkansas woman gave birth to a stillborn baby in February, she asked a Little Rock funeral home to cremate the remains of [...]

Byline: Kelly Kasulis Cho The U.S. Justice Department charged five Russian nationals Wednesday in an alleged sanctions evasion scheme that involved millions of barrels of smuggled oil from Venezuela and [...]

Byline: Ellen Francis A Baghdad court has sentenced a British tourist to 15 years in prison for taking pottery shards from the archaeological site of an ancient city in southeast [...]

Byline: Widlore Mérancourt and Amanda Coletta PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti - U.S. authorities on Wednesday charged a leader of a notorious gang behind many of the brazen mass kidnappings that have terrorized [...]

Byline: Ellen Francis A Baghdad court has sentenced a British tourist to 15 years in prison for taking pottery shards from the archaeological site of an ancient city in southeast [...]

Byline: Washington Post Staff The Pandora Papers files obtained by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists reveal two secret offshore trusts that an indicted art dealer, Douglas Latchford, used to [...]

Byline: Peter Whoriskey, Malia Politzer, Delphine Reuter and Spencer Woodman For decades, Douglas Latchford cut a romantic figure: The genial Englishman was an explorer of jungle temples, a scholar and [...]

Byline: Paul Duggan Two years after the Mexican drug lord nicknamed 'El Chapo' began serving life behind bars in the United States, his wife, who admitted taking part in his [...]

Byline: Shayna Jacobs NEW YORK - A Kenyan man accused in a multimillion-dollar operation to deal rhinoceros horns and ivory from elephant tusks - harming more than 100 endangered animals [...]

Byline: Lynh Bui and Peter Hermann Twenty people have been indicted on racketeering charges in a broad corruption ring that involved corrections officers accepting bribes, kickbacks and sexual favors to [...]

Byline: Lynh Bui;Peter Hermann Twenty people have been indicted on racketeering charges in a broad corruption ring that involved corrections officers accepting bribes, kickbacks and sexual favors to smuggle contraband [...]

Byline: Carol Morello WASHINGTON - The United States on Wednesday slapped sanctions on six North Korean ships, 16 individuals and nine companies that it said had facilitated Pyongyang's weapons programs [...]

Byline: Irina Bokova This month, U.S. attorneys in New York's eastern district filed a civil action against craft giant Hobby Lobby that led to a $3 million fine imposed on [...]

Byline: Julie Zauzmer and Sarah Pulliam Bailey A federal court settlement that requires Hobby Lobby Stores to pay a $3 million fine for illegally importing thousands of ancient Iraqi artifacts [...]

Byline: Derek Hawkins The arts-and-crafts retailer Hobby Lobby has agreed to pay a $3 million fine for illegally smuggling thousands of ancient clay artifacts into the United States from Iraq, [...]

Byline: Derek Hawkins The arts-and-crafts retailer Hobby Lobby has agreed to pay a $3 million fine for illegally smuggling thousands of ancient clay artifacts into the United States from Iraq, [...]

Byline: Rachel Weiner;Dana HedgpethBlades made of sawfish, mounted brown owls, crocodile skin wallets and giant sea turtle shells -- these are a few of the illegal things an antiques shop [...]

Byline: Ann E. Marimow and Peter Hermann Prosecutors charged more than 50 corrections officers and inmates Wednesday in a widespread bribery and drug conspiracy inside Maryland's largest state prison. Prison [...]

Byline: Ann E. Marimow and Peter Hermann Prosecutors charged more than 50 corrections officers and inmates Wednesday in a widespread bribery and drug conspiracy inside Maryland's largest state prison. Prison [...]

Byline: Irina Bokova This month, U.S. attorneys in New York's eastern district filed a civil action against craft giant Hobby Lobby that led to a $3 million fine imposed on [...]

Byline: Editorial Board 'I READ them the riot act.' That is how an antiquities law expert characterized her warning to Hobby Lobby executives that artifacts the company was planning to [...]

Byline: Julie Zauzmer;Sarah Pulliam Bailey A federal court settlement that requires Hobby Lobby Stores to pay a $3 million fine for illegally importing thousands of ancient Iraqi artifacts is casting [...]

Byline: Derek Hawkins The arts-and-crafts retailer Hobby Lobby has agreed to pay a $3 million fine for illegally importing thousands of ancient Iraqi clay artifacts smuggled into the United States, [...]

Byline: Craig Whitlock 'Fat Leonard' ran a lot of corrupt schemes with the help of the U.S. Navy, but one of the strangest may be the time he was granted [...]

Byline: by Matt Zapotosky Prosecutors in Allegany County, Maryland, have secured an indictment against two former inmates and a man they say is serving a life sentence for 'conspiracy to [...]

Byline: Cleve R. Wootson Jr. Noe Lopez needed a favor. It was early December, and the U.S. Border Patrol agent working on the San Diego-Tijuana border asked a co-worker whether [...]

Byline: Ann E. Marimow;Peter Hermann Prosecutors charged more than 50 correctional officers and inmates Wednesday in a widespread bribery and drug conspiracy inside Maryland's largest state prison. Prison guards are [...]

Byline: Spencer S. Hsu A Singapore man pleaded not guilty Monday after being extradited from Indonesia to face federal charges in Washington of furthering an illegal export conspiracy in which [...]

Byline: Susan Fraser ANKARA, Turkey -- A Turkish court on Friday sentenced two Syrian smugglers to four years and two months each in prison over the deaths of five people [...]

MARYLAND Hogan names new deputy chief of staff Gov. Larry Hogan (R) on Friday named a former senator and the current head of the Governor's Office of Crime Control and [...]

Byline: Matt Zapotosky Prosecutors in Allegany County, Md., have secured an indictment against two former inmates and a man they say is serving a life sentence for 'conspiracy to murder' [...]

Byline: Lynh Bui Four Anne Arundel County detention officers were arrested Tuesday morning after authorities accused them of smuggling illegal contraband -- including fast food and a cellphone -- to [...]