Tag: contraband

Customs Agents Did Not Seize Any Contraband From Trains for 4 Years: Federal Records

Canada’s customs agents did not seize any contraband by rail over a four-year period before 2022, federal records show. “The CBSA [Canada Border Services Agency] did not seize any illegal items from train cars for the years 2018 to 2021 inclusively,” cabinet wrote in an Inquiry of Ministry tabled in the House of Commons by…


22 AGs Call on Congress to Change Law to Allow States to Jam Contraband Cell Phones in Prisons

Twenty-two attorneys general, led by South Carolina AG Alan Wilson and Alabama AG Steve Marshall, are urging Congress to pass legislation to allow states to jam contraband cell phones being used in prison, “and quickly.” Prisoners are using contraband cell phones to conduct illegal activity “with no way to block them, and are posing an…


Pigeon Carrying a ‘Backpack’ of Crystal Meth Caught in BC Prison

A B.C. prison is probing a bizarre case of illicit drug trafficking, one that involves a pigeon. On Dec. 29, officers at the Pacific Institution, a medium-security federal institution in Abbotsford, B.C., discovered a pigeon with a small package attached to it in a fashion similar to a “backpack.” The bird was found in a fenced yard…


Malice in the Palace (1949)

Set in a desert land where the stooges run a restaurant, the boys set out to recover the stolen Rootin Tootin diamond after they learn from the thieves that the Emir of Shmo has absconded with the contraband jewel. They journey to the stronghold of Shmo where they disguise themselves as Santa Clauses and scare…


Border Officers Arrest Multiple People Smuggling Fentanyl ‘Within Their Bodies’

People have been caught at various border entry points in El Paso, Texas, over the past week trying to smuggle fentanyl into the United States “within their bodies,” authorities say. U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers say that in the three days to June 10 they identified and stopped “significant drug loads on a…


Canadian Pilots Detained in Dominican Republic After Reporting $25 Million of Cocaine Found on Plane

A Canadian charter airline says some of its pilots and crew are among the nine Canadians detained in the Dominican Republic after reporting 200 kilograms of cocaine found stashed away on board to local police. Among the nine detained are two pilots and two flight attendants working at Pivot Airlines, formerly Air Georgian, a regional airline…


Canadian Aircrew Detained in Dominican Republic After Reporting Large Stash of Drugs Found on Plane

A Canadian charter airline says some of its pilots and crew are among the nine Canadians detained in the Dominican Republic after reporting 200 kilograms of cocaine found stashed away on board to local police. Among the nine detained are two pilots and two flight attendants working at Pivot Airlines, formerly Air Georgian, a regional airline…