And the smugglers knew that, so they would routinely come in just under that.
Bonner says Lam set the bar so high it was difficult to go after immigrant smugglers in court.
She may have just been randomly assigned the seat under which the smugglers hid the pot.
Ms Hughes also said there were intelligence-led efforts to tackle organised gangs of "people smugglers".
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Smugglers then removed much of the food and water on board to cram more people in.
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Both of them just scraping a living so they could pay the people smugglers.
Lined up on the beach below the fishing boats favoured by the people smugglers.
Local driver Qazi Faisal told BBC Urdu's Aijaz Mahar that people thought these brothers were smugglers.
This makes it more expensive than the same Post-It Notes smugglers bring in from Thailand.
Mobile phones allow the smugglers to remain in contact with their network across the world.
The navy also has to cope with the pirates and smugglers who flourish around Indonesia's shores.
Dover police estimate that 6, 000 smugglers from all over Britain pass through the port each day.
The river bank is a medieval scene of hawkers, migrants, smugglers and even the occasional policeman.
It's not clear if they thought the Israeli soldiers were smugglers or exactly what was going on.
The officers believe their clampdown is successful because the smugglers have been forced to try new routes.
Border crossers say they pay human smugglers, or coyotes, much more than they did a decade ago.
That is one reason why he leaves the 5, 000 or so small-time smugglers in this area alone.
Five Saudi border guards had recently been killed along the border in shoot-outs with well-armed smugglers, he added.
Kent police say between 25% and 40% of all crime in the town is now committed by smugglers.
It may be more realistic to restrict the ammunition that is so cheap it is unattractive to smugglers.
Ms Gillard claimed the Malaysia deal was designed to thwart people-smugglers, and to deter people from dangerous sea voyages.
They'll use the money to pay people smugglers to get them to Europe.
Smugglers usually travel in groups of three or four, he said, not 40.
The government's proposed detention of refugees trafficked by smugglers has been criticised for violating Canadian law and international agreements.
Some smugglers are undoubtedly ruthless, and becoming more so as smuggling fees rise.
They traded heavily in a smugglers' market (which Mr Saakashvili shut down in 2004) and lived alongside each other peaceably.
Just as the United States was angry about Canadian whiskey-smugglers 80 years ago, it is increasingly edgy about cannabis today.
With the door slammed shut in Holland, smugglers will turn to the UK despite the longer distances says Detective Kalman.
This is dwarfed by the 4, 200 tonnes harvested last year, but is beginning to erode the smugglers' sense of impunity.
Mohamad Roslan said authorities were taking steps to ensure their safety from angry smugglers, but declined to give any details.
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