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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 2009
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NEWS ABOUT: contraband

contraband stories: 3 news summaries

(Newser) - The poor and homeless in Milan will get a pricey treat this holiday season, the BBC reports. Officials will distribute 88 pounds of beluga caviar seized from smugglers to the city’s shelters and soup kitchens. The sturgeon roe, confiscated in November en route from Poland, is valued at around... More »

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Italy • homeless • shelter • poor • Milan • sturgeon • contraband • smuggler • soup kitchen • beluga caviar • Caspian Sea

Dogs Fetch Contraband Cell Phones in Jails

Md., Va. among states using canines to bust crooks' outside contact

Jul 10, 08 1:51 PM CDT
(Newser) - Dogs, it turns out, can sniff out more than just bombs and drugs. Authorities in Maryland and Virginia have canines rooting out cell phones, described by one official as "perhaps the worst type of contraband" in today's prisons. The increasingly tiny devices are easy to smuggle in, the Washington ... More »

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cell phones • prison • contraband • dog • bomb-sniffing dogs

US Troops
High on
Afghan Heroin

Boredom, frustration drive soldiers to cheap, ubiquitous drug

Aug 7, 07 11:15 AM CDT
(Newser) - Bored US soldiers have easy access to heroin in poppy-rich Afghanistan, and few fear punishment if they're caught using it, Salon reports. Filmmaker Shaun McCanna says he was able to score heroin easily on over a dozen occasions during his two trips to the war-torn country. More »

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Afghanistan • drugs • heroin • soldier • opium • Operation Enduring Freedom • Operation Iraqi Freedom • contraband

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