DETROIT -- U.S. and Canadian officials say they broke up an international smuggling ring responsible for transporting at least 100 illegal immigrants across the border over the last 15 months.

In total, 23 people were charged Wednesday in U.S. and Canadian courts with smuggling. Officials say it was one of the largest smuggling rings along the northern border to be dismantled by law enforcement in recent memory...Since December 2004, U.S. officials say they have caught at least 78 illegal immigrants -- most of them Chinese -- attempting to enter Michigan in connection with this ring...The illegal immigrants were from Albania, Syria, Iraq, South Korea, Russia, Ukraine and Poland, but most were from China...One of the lead defendants, Maitham Aziz Alzerhanri, 34, of Windsor, resisted arrest and had to be stunned with a Taser.