Isaac Jake Gonzalez, a 21-year-old from Pharr, Texas, was sentenced to five years in federal prison for smuggling thousands of undocumented migrants and trafficking a teen girl for sex, part of a smuggling ring he operated with his brother-in-law. In Arizona, Christopher McIver, 61, received a seven-year sentence for attempting to import over $1.2 million in drugs into Bermuda, with the court rejecting his claim of being coerced. A prisoner in the UK was sentenced to 19 years for orchestrating a drug trafficking operation from behind bars, using unauthorized phones and drones to smuggle drugs into various prisons. Verlan Perez Jr., also a prisoner, was sentenced to an additional 87 months for conspiring to distribute methamphetamine and buprenorphine in a Texarkana facility, continuing a pattern of drug trafficking while incarcerated. These cases highlight ongoing issues with human smuggling and drug trafficking across borders and within prison systems.