Holiday border crackdown targets fruit, raw pork

The mountain of oranges, tangerines, lemons and more exotic fruits piled in the customs office at the Hidalgo international bridge in Texas on Thanksgiving Day would have made any grocer proud.

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Beware: Some NFL gear's not Super

TAMPA, Fla. - The contraband lie in heaps on the floor, piled there by more than a dozen federal and local law enforcement officials. The haul's street value was pegged at $500,000, but authorities said that’s just a drop in the bucket on this front of the never-ending war on crime.

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NY Bust Nets $6M in Fake Tax Stamps

Millions of dollars worth of counterfeit tax stamps were seized and a Jordanian man arrested as part of a major undercover investigation into tobacco smuggling in New York, authorities announced Wednesday.

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A prison officer and a convicted murderer serving a life sentence, who were both involved in smuggling contraband into Mountjoy prison, have been jailed for a total of seven years by Judge Katherine Delahunt

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EAST MEADOW, N.Y. - A Hempstead mother was arrested Tuesday after she brought her toddler son to the Nassau jail, carrying in his mouth a balloon apparently filled with tobacco and match heads, police said.

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A woman was arrested guarding an arsenal that included an anti-aircraft machine gun—the first weapon of its kind seized in Mexico, police said Tuesday.

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Criminals like us

I remember when we had food. Sure, we have our basement gardens and the few rabbits we can hide. But it didn't use to be like this. We had grocery stores and markets and you could grow vegetables in your back yard – in the open. Now, we get by.

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A woman who police said lied to sneak into the Duval County Jail no longer has reason to sneak around because she has been arrested

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ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. -- Eyewitness News learned Casey Anthony may have been slipped some contraband in the suit she wore to court for Friday's hearing. Jail officials told Eyewitness News they discovered a "Caylee" bracelet stashed in the clothes Jose Baez dropped off this week.

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The prisons at Taft should offer TV converter boxes for sale to inmates when the digital switch occurs next year.

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It seems the band has been dropped by their label, RCA Records.

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Police officers can lie to suspects. They can fight back if assaulted. And they can use deadly force if necessary. They cannot, however, pull contraband from a suspect's body cavities without a search warrant.

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Alcohol, tobacco, and illegal drug use cause considerable morbidity and mortality, but good cross-national epidemiological data are limited.

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...Since 9/11, the TSA has collected tons of items at airport security checkpoints. What happens to all that stuff? Here's how to buy TSA contraband.

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Man it must suck going to prison for cigarettes, but one man is going to do time for the sell and distribution of sells.

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A motel manager found a surprise in his can of Coca-Cola Thursday. The man told police that he had put $1 in the motel's Coca-Cola machine. After he received the can of soda and opened it, he found a bag of marijuana inside.

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A budgie, believed to have been smuggled into the jail by a female visitor who concealed the bird internally in her body, is understood to have belonged to a prisoner serving a long-term jail sentence.

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