American law-enforcement officials say that criminal gangs smuggle tens of thousands of Asian laborers, many of them from China's coastal Fujian Province, to work in restaurants, garment factories and other businesses for little more than slave wages.

Eight racketeering indictments unsealed yesterday in Federal District Court in Manhattan charged that since 1992, the gang had smuggled more than 350 people into the country from China at a price of about $30,000 a person.

Mr. Breikat said the gang manufactured guns, smuggled weapons and hashish, burned property and even shot at a dormitory of a university where women are enrolled.

In preparation for the robbery, Kamo's gang smuggled bombs into Tiflis by hiding them inside a sofa.

A criminal gang smuggles watches into the country by hiding them in a petrol tank of a woman's car.

Joe volunteered the information that the gang also smuggled electronic equipment, and added, "Have you any leads on Marr's whereabouts?"

Kamo's gang smuggled bombs into Tiflis by hiding them inside a sofa.

I've heard . . . just heard, you understand . . . that the gang here smuggles a fella into the Pipeline yard and up into the nose of a carrier loaded with grub.

Irish, Italian and Polish gangs smuggled in most of the illegal whiskey.

In addition to murder and kidnapping, Mr. Zhang said, the gang smuggled more than 1,500 pounds of explosives from Guangdong into Hong Kong.