VOA标准英语 Drug Smugglers Found Guilty in Sierra Leone
时间：2019-01-13 作者：英语课 分类：VOA标准英语2009年(四月)
Sierra Leone has convicted 15 men of trying to smuggle 1 nearly 700 kilograms of cocaine 2 through the country's airport.
Justice Nicolas Browne Marke found all 15 men guilty of conspiracy 3 to import a prohibited drug without lawful 4 authority.
Two Colombians, a Venezuelan, and a Mexican were fined $1 million and sentenced to five years in prison for importing cocaine. A third Colombian was fined $1.5 million and given five years in prison, and a Colombian-American was fined $2.5 million and given five years in prison on the same charges.
Justice Marke recommended all the foreign nationals in this case be expelled from the country. Only President Ernest Bai Koroma can sign an expulsion order, and Attorney General Abdul Serry Kamal says the government agrees with the judge's recommendation.
Agents from the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation 5 are in Freetown waiting to take custody 6 of several of those convicted.
But defense 7 lawyers object, telling a hastily called news conference following the sentencing that it would be an affront 8 to the dignity of the court for their clients to be removed from Sierra Leone at this time.
Those convicted include a resident of Guinea Bissau, a man with joint 9 Cuban-Togolese nationality and several Sierra Leoneans including two police officers, a national security officer, and two air traffic controllers.
The four-month trial heard evidence that smugglers in a small white plane with a fake Red Cross emblem 10 took on their cocaine cargo 11 along the border between Colombia and Venezuela, before making an unauthorized landing at Freetown's Lungi International Airport last July.
The two-man crew taxied the Caracas-registered Cessna Conquest to a remote part of the tarmac and drove off in a waiting jeep, breaking through a locked gate on the airport's northern perimeter 12. Security personnel surrounded the plane and discovered several automatic weapons and nearly 700 kilograms of cocaine.
The drugs seized in Sierra Leone's largest cocaine bust 13 have an estimated value of $100 million. Justice Marke ordered the cocaine be destroyed.
- Friends managed to smuggle him secretly out of the country.朋友们想方设法将他秘密送出国了。
- She has managed to smuggle out the antiques without getting caught.她成功将古董走私出境，没有被逮捕。
- That young man is a cocaine addict.那个年轻人吸食可卡因成瘾。
- Don't have cocaine abusively.不可滥服古柯碱。
- The men were found guilty of conspiracy to murder.这些人被裁决犯有阴谋杀人罪。
- He claimed that it was all a conspiracy against him.他声称这一切都是一场针对他的阴谋。
- It is not lawful to park in front of a hydrant.在消火栓前停车是不合法的。
- We don't recognised him to be the lawful heir.我们不承认他为合法继承人。
- In an investigation,a new fact became known, which told against him.在调查中新发现了一件对他不利的事实。
- He drew the conclusion by building on his own investigation.他根据自己的调查研究作出结论。
- He spent a week in custody on remand awaiting sentence.等候判决期间他被还押候审一个星期。
- He was taken into custody immediately after the robbery.抢劫案发生后，他立即被押了起来。
- The accused has the right to defense.被告人有权获得辩护。
- The war has impacted the area with military and defense workers.战争使那个地区挤满了军队和防御工程人员。
- Your behaviour is an affront to public decency.你的行为有伤风化。
- This remark caused affront to many people.这句话得罪了不少人。
- I had a bad fall,which put my shoulder out of joint.我重重地摔了一跤，肩膀脫臼了。
- We wrote a letter in joint names.我们联名写了封信。
- Her shirt has the company emblem on it.她的衬衫印有公司的标记。
- The eagle was an emblem of strength and courage.鹰是力量和勇气的象征。
- The ship has a cargo of about 200 ton.这条船大约有200吨的货物。
- A lot of people discharged the cargo from a ship.许多人从船上卸下货物。
- The river marks the eastern perimeter of our land.这条河标示我们的土地东面的边界。
- Drinks in hands,they wandered around the perimeter of the ball field.他们手里拿着饮料在球场周围漫不经心地遛跶。