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Article: Brazilian police break up ring that smuggled children into United States
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- February 9, 2006
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AP Worldstream
02-09-2006
Dateline: RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil
Federal police broke up a ring accused of smuggling dozens of Brazilian children into the United States, arresting 15 people in seven states on Thursday.
The gang forged birth certificates and identity papers for the children that linked them to gang members, known as "storks," who took the children into the United States and delivered them to Brazilians living there illegally, police said.
Some of the children were reunited with their parents, but police suspect that others were illegally adopted, federal police Inspector Felicio Laterca said.
The gang charged around US$15,000 (euro12,535) for each child that they ...