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  1. goods that are illegally taken into or out of a country

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"My first big film was Contraband and around that time I got caught with some contraband," he admits with a laugh.
The DOJ charged both men each with one count of smuggling contraband into the prison, and conspiring to smuggle contraband and defraud the United States.
I mean, they're making a lot of money behind bars in dealing with contraband and the scams that they can run on the contraband cell phones.
A price lower than that of legally sold brands suggests a contraband sale; some smokers openly admit that they have bought contraband cigarettes, or show a telltale pack.
The lawsuit, which was filed against FedEx Ground Package System Inc and FedEx Freight Inc, had sought penalties under the Contraband Cigarette Trafficking Act, which prohibits shipping contraband cigarettes.
California adds new tech to stop contraband cell phones in prison California adds new tech to stop contraband cell phones in prison The California Department of Corrections is launching an ambitious new program to stop the inflow of contraband cell phones into the state's prison system — and the nation's largest prison phone company is paying for it.
"No drugs or contraband or influence of escape," McNaughton said.
He'd recently been cited for having contraband in his cell.
They seized an illegally parked car and the contraband inside.
A uniformed police officer was milling about, searching for contraband.
Is contraband being smuggled in these antique clocks and figurines?
They smuggle the contraband in on their way to work.
Some minor contraband starts to fly out of the cell.
"That says it all," Mr. Trump said of the contraband.
These magazines are contraband and will be confiscated if found.
No contraband was found on the boat, the report said.
This growing market could be a stimulus for contraband organizations.
Prison officials said contraband cellphones fuel violence and undermine security.
In the "other" space, she wrote that ribbons are contraband.
Mr. Palmer, 57, pleaded guilty to a felony count of promoting prison contraband for bringing in pliers and a screwdriver, a misdemeanor contraband count for the hamburger meat and a misdemeanor count of official misconduct.
Therefore, only those who consumed the contraband beverage are at risk.
Residents said the officers searched the five-story building for contraband.
Most of them are non-hostile, carrying contraband such as cigarettes.
Unauthorized drones have also been known to smuggle contraband into prisons.
The emergency started with the busting of a contraband-fuel racket.
The Casey smuggling a previous owner's contraband was a real possibility.
On the video, they do not appear to find any contraband.
Sweat pleaded guilty to escape and promoting prison contraband in November.
Michelle Bastian also faces an additional charge of promoting prison contraband.
Cross-border trade remains fluid, but passage of contraband is common.
The participants will be inspected for contraband, weapons most of all.
He had paid $600 for the smartphone — contraband in prisons nationwide.
"It's not perfect, but you find much fewer" fights and contraband.
The guards didn't find any contraband on Peerman or the child.
A guard watched to see if contraband fell from her vagina.
In many countries, the contraband may have ended up in someone's pocket.
Smugglers have started to utilize the technology to move contraband across borders.
They are also used to smuggle contraband across borders and into prisons.
In the interior merchants have prospered from smuggling and trading in contraband.
She had items that were considered contraband (like raisins) at her disposal.
But this piece of contraband sets a completely new standard in smuggling.
Contraband drugs in prison can contribute to the cyclical nature of addiction.
I knew that the photo was contraband, given Apple's obsession with leaks.
No contraband was found, and the officer was given a "simple reprimand".
Smugglers have become remarkably skilled at hiding contraband within vehicles and cargo.
The T.S.A. regularly conducts screening tests, attempting to bring contraband through checkpoints.
Books — poems — essays — everything has been contemptible or contraband in his eyes.
Liquor wasn't contraband then, and the city was a vibrant artistic hub.
Once the contraband begins its trafficking journey, the route often isn't direct.
All manner of contraband passes through Agadez—counterfeit goods, hashish, cocaine, heroin.
Some 100 kilos (220lb) in contraband cigarettes were also among the payload.
The DOJ's Bureau of Prisons announced Thursday new contraband regulations for inmates.
Obviously, any decision that inhibits the ease with which contraband can be smuggled into a jail or prison facility is a smart one, and it is reasonable to conclude that less contraband of any kind — drugs, weapons, etc.
That's around 2251,28 more than the next most common type of contraband—weapons.
Open flames are typically not allowed in college dorms, so candles are contraband.
They do it over and over again, until all the contraband is delivered.
What made the app clever – but also contraband – was how it used AirPlay.
Next up was the growing problem of contraband phones at jails and prisons.
Facebook, on the other hand, still treats CBD like the contraband it isn't.
Countries such as Peru and Bolivia have reduced the outflow of antique contraband.
Wielding a contraband smartphone, Shkreli still helps call the shots, the Journal said.
Markets also facilitate trade of contraband foreign media through USB sticks and DVDs.
We're told he's been charged with possession of contraband in a correctional facility.
It also said that possessing a contraband phone could lead to criminal charges.
Previous crack-downs in Madre de Dios have spawned contraband smuggling into Bolivia.
Kenya's government likes to blow up boats carrying contraband in front of journalists.
I marched up town and acquired some of high street retail's finest contraband.
Hankerson admitted she charged at least $500 a package to smuggle in contraband.
Inspections had been required only if there was reasonable suspicion of contraband aboard.
Shortages stress the staff's ability to, among other things, find contraband, he said.
Contraband cell phone reforms are a priority of senior Republican Commissioner Ajit Pai.
He spoke to viewers by way of a contraband cellphone with a camera.
The "contraband" was former slaves who had sought refuge in the nation's capital.
However, due to its high alcohol content, it is considered contraband in prisons.
Science Times at 40 The country is a critical market for animal contraband.
In many facilities, hand sanitizer is contraband due to its high alcohol content.
The state Department of Corrections has acknowledged contraband cell phones are an issue.
The release of video from contraband cell phones revealed inhumane living conditions -- killings.
CBP personnel are experts at finding contraband on travelers and in their belongings.
Ms. Valentine distributes children's pain relievers, she runs science flashcards, she confiscates contraband.
US -- and stop a car only if they're suspicious it might contain contraband.
An Alabama K9 officer has died after a contraband search at an Alabama prison.
Those are drones that are trying to smuggle in weapons, drugs and other contraband.
Dozens of guards have faced state or federal charges for assault or smuggling contraband.
About a week ago AlphaBay, the dark web's largest contraband marketplace, went mysteriously offline.
Mitchell pleaded guilty to charges of promoting prison contraband and criminal facilitation last June.
It follows Guy Montag, a firefighter whose job is to burn those contraband books.
He said all jails in the country have problems with suicide and deadly contraband.
Nassar took advantage of this by sneaking the girls contraband junk food and coffee.
In 2011, then-President Mwai Kibaki set fire to five tonnes of contraband ivory.
The smuggling of contraband into and within correctional facilities is not a new phenomenon.
It agreed to tougher measures, including limiting financial transactions and searching vessels for contraband.
Drug dogs found the contraband in a casket despite it being covered in manure.
So Noriega reported it to South African police, which confiscated the watch as contraband.
It was finally possible to use science to show where the contraband had originated.
The going rate for a guard to smuggle in contraband was $500 a package.
Inspections previously had been required only if there was reasonable suspicion of contraband aboard.
We do usually have a few minor pieces of contraband, for the guards' sake.
Police disproportionately stopped black drivers even though they were less likely to find contraband.
Angola also now uses body scanning machines to help in the detection of contraband.
The measure was also intended to make it harder to smuggle contraband into prisons.
The contraband is scary enough: Homemade knives with grips whittled to fit particular hands.
Many facilities are plagued with contraband, such as cellphones, synthetic drugs and manufactured weapons.
Francis Smith to search the town of Concord for contraband military supplies and weapons.
Although cheese contraband is not new, it has intensified as Venezuela's currency has crashed.
Small watercraft laden with contraband can easily navigate the waterway from Iran to Iraq.
The fees that criminal networks charge to transport people and contraband across the border.
But much of the contraband he pointed to came through legal ports of entry.
From the vans, however, officers were able to recover part of the contraband cargo.
To my horror, they then started digging, obviously thinking that I had hidden contraband.
HOW TO LIMIT CONTRABAND CELLPHONES IN PRISONS: Republican FCC Commissioner Ajit Pai and South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley held a field hearing Tuesday to highlight prison inmates use of contraband cellphones and what the government should be doing to help prevent it.
The Stanford data show that searches of white drivers yield contraband 32% of the time.
By contrast, when the driver was black or Hispanic, the contraband hit rate was 26%.
Items are often contraband-proof, from sealed food pouches to clear electronics to pocketless sweatpants.
Maduro has increased security at the border in an attempt to crack down on contraband.
To keep contraband out of prisons, the United Kingdom wants drones out of the sky.
Yet the report found that white people were more likely to be found with contraband.
Without animal feed, steak exists only as a memory, and eggs become black-market contraband.
Smaller boats collect the contraband, taking it to beaches and coves, or to commercial harbours.
If something's Schedule I, it's contraband—nobody may possess Schedule I material except for research.
Dogs can detect pangolins, as well as ivory, rhino horn and other contraband wildlife products.
Mitchell, 51, was charged with promoting prison contraband, a felony, and criminal facilitation, a misdemeanor.
The ability to access contraband, how much more power does that give to the inmates?
Chase said he had managed a smuggling ring and bribed guards to carry in contraband.
He was then assigned to an outfit tasked with rescuing contraband arms parachuted onto farms.
Simms was eventually allowed to leave the scene, after officers found no contraband on her.
Here, Pakistani customs officials crush contraband bottles of alcohol at the border in January 2019.
BOSTON — One of the holiday's hottest presents is now considered contraband at many U.S. colleges.
For artists still in Iraq under the sanctions regime, even lead pencils could be contraband.
"Jesse is a formerly incarcerated artist—that art in itself was contraband material," she says.
Then he was accused of smuggling contraband at Rikers Island, adding to his legal troubles.
Chinese market regulators are investigating the sale of contraband and pirated products on the platform.
In 2010, Georgia inmates used contraband cellphones to coordinate protests across at least six prisons.
There are also concerns about the growing amount of contraband getting past depleted prison staffs.
Many items are considered "contraband" in the mansion, like iPhones and computers and even books.
These videos and photos were shot by inmates using contraband phones, according to Team Roc.
A few days after that, a sweep of the prison turned up 36 contraband mobiles.
Dozier: I instructed someone how to introduce contraband into the prison system through the mail.
Stirling says roughly 53,000 contraband cell phones were confiscated in South Carolina correctional facilities in 2015.
Essential oil diffuser Open flames are typically not allowed in college dorms, so candles are contraband.
The contraband being trafficked includes mobile phones, tobacco, and psychoactive substances like the synthetic drug Spice.
Smokers may, for example, be reluctant to mention purchases of cigarettes they know to be contraband.
The "contraband" mentioned in her guilty plea included: hacksaw blades, padded gloves, and a proto-screwdriver.
Another problematic use of drone tech that has emerged is for smuggling contraband over prison walls.
The jury heard evidence guards had beat inmates and accepted bribes to help smuggle in contraband.
Officers were able to fill up the beds of two pickup trucks with the seized contraband.
Cost cutting inevitably produces poor outcomes — understaffed facilities, rife with drugs and contraband, escapes and violence.
The inmate, Matthew Whittington, 26, of Queens, was charged with assault, menacing and promoting prison contraband.
It comes as no surprise, then, that words are the most forbidden contraband to a handmaid.
Is there a Girl Scout cookie black market where one can unload this much cookie contraband?
The game follows an unnamed protagonist as she smuggles mysterious, contraband VHS tapes across the border.
Kilo, a drug-detection dog in rural Moffat County, flagged a man's truck for containing contraband.
If you send a woman with a suitcase full of contraband to Iran, she'll be fine.
The price difference has led to massive amounts of contraband cheese being moved across this border.
If they saw contraband like narcotics or child pornography during their search they could seize that.
By sending the contraband to Popov in California, Script committed a federal crime in a US jurisdiction.
It alleged prison officials accepted bribes to smuggle in contraband like cell phones, cigarettes and even televisions.
Almost all turned out to have no contraband on them — meaning they weren't guilty of any crime.
Organised criminals traditionally distinguished themselves by working in groups for profit, especially by smuggling contraband or people.
"Today's announcement provides a unique window into contraband smuggling at Rikers," Peters said at a press conference.
Narrator: JFK disposes of the contraband food in one of two ways: the grinder, or the incinerator.
They also said that she had allowed them to bring drugs and other contraband into the prison.
The Philippine Coast Guard said it had searched the ship and found no weapons or other contraband.
The controversial directive was ostensibly intended to cut down on the contraband entering New York State prisons.
" He adds that bringing used clothing into the country "shouldn't even be called importing, because it's contraband.
Other groups had to wait and give a third of their contraband to the Mexican Mafia leadership.
Investigators described a smuggling operation that moved information and contraband among city jails and an upstate prison.
When work is available, often in construction or reselling contraband candy at traffic signals, pay is low.
On top of that, one of Mr. Zuma's sons was suspected of hiding profits from contraband cigarettes.
"It's also important to recognize that methadone has a contraband value in a correctional environment," she said.
A Sheriff's K-9 arrived at the scene and alerted police to the presence of contraband inside.
Tate complained last week about inmates having contraband phones, and even blamed the violence on the phones.
Since 2000, contraband seizures by US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) have increased more than 10-fold.
New York (CNN Business)Martin Shkreli reportedly runs his pharmaceutical company from prison on a contraband smartphone.
Contraband commodities moving between Zimbabwe and North Korea form a key part of their bilateral business connections.
Almost all turned out to have no contraband on them — meaning they weren't guilty of a crime.
Therein resides Beatrice's true discretionary power: She can withhold mail simply because she feels it is contraband.
In 2015, she was threatened with indefinite solitary confinement for possessing "contraband"—toothpaste and LGBTQ reading materials.
"In the past, this issue was forbidden and any kind of import would be considered contraband," Pourebrahimi said.
Justin B. Stinson allegedly escaped though the fence and grabbed a large black duffel back filled with contraband.
Criminals have in the past tried to use tennis balls, pigeons and drones to bring contraband into prisons.
The officers then searched the anal cavity of each prisoner, claiming that they were looking for contraband cellphones.
I forfeited my monkey as the nurses muttered something about how contraband could be hidden inside it. Fine.
That year, in yet another incident, two people were arrested for trying to smuggle contraband using a drone.
But drones have become a popular method for smuggling contraband, like drugs, weapons and mobile phones, into prisons.
His unit was almost confined to barracks, but permitted to let the vital border contraband continue at pace.
Palmer, who was later imprisoned for six months, brought the chopped meat with contraband to Matt and Sweat.
Their density is too heavy for TSA's scanners, and in need of a more thorough search for contraband.
So the fact that they're contraband in BC really is what makes these kids crazy for the JUULs.
I remember the concessions vendor trying to sell us contraband soju, stashed at the bottom of her cooler.
The government has seized 9,000 tons of sugar in raids across the country, as though it were contraband.
No contraband was found and no charges were filed; surveillance footage of the raid was later posted online.
Terry Brown, 23, was also arrested on charges of possession of drug paraphernalia, loitering and promoting prison contraband.
The tunnels have been used for a variety of contraband, but they are most suited to marijuana smuggling.
When they succeed in nabbing any smugglers, contraband samples are sent to chemists to help determine the source.
The arts space known for its off-the-radar sensibilities made a perfect home for the contraband film.
Flourishing local businesses also want to overcome the country's long-time reputation as a hotbed of contraband goods.
Criminals have used UAS to fly contraband, including drugs, weapons, and other materials, into state and federal prisons.
The report indicates that private prisons are better at finding, seizing and recording contraband than their public counterparts.
Pai cited a number of instances in which contraband cellphones were used to commit further crimes from prison.
Her office has prosecuted cases involving violence by inmates, brutality by officers, corruption and the smuggling of contraband.
A dropout from Medellín's Universidad Autónoma, Escobar had gone into business selling stolen tombstones and contraband American cigarettes.
I can only imagine how the argument with the (presumably preteen) passenger caught carrying this contraband probably went.
Dozens of guards have been charged in recent years with various crimes, including smuggling contraband and assaulting inmates.
Vehicles are prohibited, and pedestrians will be allowed in at only two checkpoints, where police will confiscate contraband.
The spinner arm was usually a paper clip, which was technically minor contraband, but usually not worth confiscation.
He said he was taken to a body scanner designed to detect contraband stored in a person's body.
OIG found problems in six categories: contraband, reports of incidents, lockdowns, inmate discipline, telephone monitoring, and selected grievances.
Lansdale and his men visited their Vietnamese friends, trapped in their houses, to bring them the contraband bread.
Courts have long held that customs officials have an interest in enforcing immigration laws and keeping contraband out.
But the Democratic presidential candidate told reporters Wednesday that she had in fact snuck in some contraband yogurt.
I was ordered to squat, and my body was patted down to ensure I was not concealing contraband.
"The biggest issue isn't visitors, but the correction officers — because they can bring in large amounts of contraband."
And the Trump administration is reportedly considering a crackdown on shipments of contraband from China, the FT reports.
In the 17th and 18th centuries, white colonists illegally smuggled boatloads of contraband, such as molasses for rum.
They said the restrictions also keep out weapons and contraband that could be smuggled in with the books.
We went through our own private TSA security line, after which Coblentz handed me some contraband boba pearls.
A Government Accountability Office report on contraband searches at airports, released in 2000, reflected another form of violation.
Smugglers from Mexico will dig tunnels under the wall or use drones to fly their contraband across it.
We've all seen the exposés showing how frequently a local news team can smuggle contraband through a checkpoint.
Word spread across forums about "the hardest game ever made" in hushed tones, as if it were contraband.
Delivering contraband or drugs by drone to a correctional facility is a class 6 felony under this law.
The white inmates could get them to bring in contraband, but the black inmates could never do that.
On it, you can buy and sell all manner of contraband — including drugs, guns, and even stolen identities.
That mandate has traditionally been interpreted to include locally stored data, as some forms of data may constitute contraband.
If you're a fan of crime or prison dramas, you probably know a bit about smuggling contraband into jail.
In a California prison he was disciplined for sneaking in contraband, thus earning the time he still faces there.
And he could be charged more for everything—sheets and blankets, food, contraband—all because of who he is.
And now mission controllers and astronauts will have to contend with at least four contraband, and potentially hazardous, satellites.
This means plenty of room for stocking stuffers of all sizes, or any illegal contraband you may have smuggled.
"Finding and removing contraband cellphones is the most dangerous part of [corrections officials'] job," FCC Chairman Ajit Pai said.
Beginning in 2015, he used contraband cameras to record what was happening around him in Florida's Martin Correctional Institution.
He's accused of participating in a smuggling ring that allegedly brought contraband goods into the country from neighboring Paraguay.
Tobacco companies claim that the move will boost the sales of contraband cigarettes by making them trickier to spot.
Suspicious officials called in Sebastian Kvist, curator of invertebrates at the Royal Ontario Museum, to identify the smuggled contraband.
A rigorous search of those coming from the outside keeps the amount of contraband to a minimum, Doguiles says.
A rigorous search of those coming from the outside keeps the amount of contraband to a minimum, Doguiles says.
The agency has been ridiculed for years for causing delays at airports and being largely ineffective at detecting contraband.
The contraband ivory was burned at a big incinerator to ensure it stays off the black market, Xavier said.
Rita cooks her special meals (stewed apples with contraband cinnamon for dessert!), and even Serena Joy has thawed out.
The proposal from Homeland Security includes cutting-edge technology for detecting drugs, weapons, illegal contraband and many other things.
He has been charged with two other felonies while in prison, one for assault and one for prison contraband.
GANIM (voice-over): Cheryl Davies leads the anti-terrorism contraband team at America's largest seaport, in Long Beach, California.
It's a lot to process while trying to keep track of an equally obscure plotline centered around contraband firearms.
Scores pass through the island each day, their diapers sniffed for drugs and their onesies patted down for contraband.
As it turned out, a sign warning about "contraband" had been affixed to a wall for a production shoot.
Near the end of our conversation, Hannibal showed me how he dries his prison uniform on a contraband clothesline.
The California state prison system has been in a losing battle to keep contraband cell phones out of facilities.
Mashable reports that the passenger's fowl contraband was a type of chicken known as farkha baladi, a local variety.
The proposal from homeland security includes cutting edge technology for detecting drugs, weapons, illegal contraband and many other things.
The list of contraband includes glass bottles, newspapers (we broke this rule) and, amazingly, phones and other electronic devices.
In some instances, they smuggle the contraband in their luggage, court filings by the Broward County Sheriff's Office suggest.
Sometimes staff members find out only because the contraband has not cleared both fences and is marooned in between.
According to Bloomberg, the purpose of these stops were to keep communities safe and free from weapons and contraband.
When the Border Patrol was created in 1924, its mission was restricting the flow of illegal immigration and contraband.
"I have de Lima's blessings," Colangco said, when Congress members asked how he had smuggled contraband into the prison.
He dissected the contraband market — the marijuana, painkillers and cellphones thrown over unwatched fences or brought in by employees.
But in many cases, evidence clearly points to jail staff as the primary source of illicit contraband in jails.
She wrapped them meticulously with silk Kashmiri prayer rugs — pieces of contraband smuggled by artists under Indian military occupation.
Contraband, escape plans, cost, and pregnancies are commonly cited concerns, but advocates argue they do not pose real threats.
I hastily shoved the cash in an envelope and mailed it home, afraid to be caught with the contraband.
Two inmates alleged prison officials received money from criminal gangs to allow in contraband like weapons, drugs and cell phones.
This is a very fertile ground, but it's so aggressive that it can still feel a little bit like contraband.
Even if gold mining is a contraband industry, the government has neither the incentive nor the capability to stop it.
Sure enough, the art market has seen its fair share of financial malfeasance and contraband in the last few years.
Smuggled in cellulars are being linked to all sorts of decidedly less benign contraband, including drugs, guns and the like.
Every year, there are thousands of security incidents with drones that can include contraband delivery and near collisions with aircraft.
Proponents say stop-and-frisk helps prevent violent crime by taking more illegal guns and other contraband off the streets.
The idea is that they can lock down the facility and do a sweep, before the inmates discover any contraband.
Jung Gwang-il, founder of the group No Chain, said the drones have been delivering the contraband since early 2015.
More high-profile reports included near-misses with commercial aircraft and the use of drones to smuggle contraband into prison.
The covert group, known as the "Red Team," tried their luck at the Minneapolis airport, smuggling various contraband through security.
Maybe his team thought they locked the phone away, only to find Drumpf using his contraband Twitter machine with abandon.
Quarters were cramped, conditions were declared unhygienic, and there was already a running belief that contraband was being smuggled in.
But he also noted drones carry the risk of aerial espionage, contraband or drug smuggling across borders, and amateur accidents.
And there's no forced slang or caricaturish twists; there are faux bricks, but they're referred to as "contraband," and etc.
Relatives were allowed to bring flowers for the performers but had to be searched for contraband before being let in.
Ports are also the means by which much contraband, from drugs to ivory, escapes to the rest of the world.
Perrone: So we're gonna go walk this bin, nice and full from those two passengers, down to our contraband room.
He said police officers at checkpoints on the road to Toliara should confiscate contraband charcoal being transported by unlicensed producers.
He censored letters written by the prisoners' loved ones, raided their cells for contraband, and observed them on suicide watch.
Subu Kota pleaded guilty in 1996 to selling the contraband to an undercover FBI agent posing as a KGB spy.
I was nervous about sneaking in what is essentially contraband for the Afghan people due to the prevailing religious beliefs.
In court, am always trying to convince judges that a constitutional violation yielding contraband cannot be considered in a vacuum.
Inmates coordinated the strikes using a network of contraband cell phones, and through family members or organizers on the outside.
The officers accused him of hiding contraband in his body, but he said he did not have anything on him.
The guards did find contraband during the searches, including marijuana, Xanax and tobacco, and arrested three women as a result.
Dogs have such exquisitely sensitive noses that they can detect bombs, drugs, citrus and other contraband in luggage or pockets.
On the way home I got to play smuggler: a radio, a toaster, a little contraband alcohol under my seat.
The inmates would then pick up contraband that was dropped off for them and bring it back to the prison.
The disparities were often smaller, according to the Times analysis, for violations that required physical evidence, like possession of contraband.
Mr. Shaw was stopped at Washington Correctional Facility because he was "attempting to conceal contraband," according to the officer's report.
Sharing snacks and money transfers Prell was also found to have made several money and contraband transactions with the inmate.
Mr. Peters has said rogue correction employees are responsible for ferrying a large share of the contraband that infiltrates jails.
During his sentence, Woods has been disciplined for possession of pornography and contraband cellphones, the Associated Press reported in 2015.
I set loose my contraband pearls and promptly lost half of them; perhaps they would reappear on a future flight.
Unless the police find contraband or an illegal handgun, the suspect is free to go without mugging, fingerprinting or manacling.
When they were arrested, they could not provide any clues as to who had left the contraband, Indian investigators said.
The contraband was to be loaded on a plane to Belgium when authorities spotted something strange on the X-rays.
During the drug-ridden 1980s, traffickers imported contraband in speedboats under cover of night, stashing the loot in riverside warehouses.
The incident attracted national media attention after inmates used their contraband cellphones to post footage of the uprising on Facebook.
I'm no contraband-smuggling expert, but it seems like a missed opportunity here to not put the money in the drone.
In real life, with Gypsy's (in her mother's eyes) contraband technology, she and Nick started up a relationship online in 2012.
A National Guard soldier demanded half of it to let him through with an old Playstation video game console deemed contraband.
The tiny whirring machines have proven discreet little contraband-transport contraptions, but one smuggling operation's astoundingly successful run just got grounded.
During its 4 year development, Introversion has added weather effects, CCTV, chapels, education programs, parole boards, gangs, drug and contraband systems.
Several online auction sites use AI to identify when users upload photos of contraband, and prevent them from making a listing.
It's a tough thing to do if you aren't a billionaire, which is why Jazz has turned to smuggling in contraband.
There were drivers to take the contraband away and others who were positioned a couple of miles ahead to provide intelligence.
National Briefing | South Inmates used contraband cellphones to carry out fraud schemes from their prison cells, federal prosecutors in Atlanta say.
Many are so riddled with contraband parts that they would be unlikely to pass muster with repair shops, an engineer said.
Stirling added that he hopes the Federal Trade Commission will consider blocking the signals of contraband cell phones smuggled into prison.
The US Federal Bureau of Prisons recently ran a test for jamming contraband cellphones in a South Carolina state correctional facility.
The patrons are given the choice between turning over their contraband and entering the club, or keeping their drugs and leaving.
Bivins's bill would tack on an extra year of prison to inmates involved in bringing contraband into prison with a drone.
By the time I arrived, I'd already clocked another way of sneaking contraband onto the site: Nab yourself an artist wristband.
And now, even prisoners are using civilian drones to have contraband delivered to them within prison walls, NY Daily News reports.
Stirling says South Carolina is spending millions to secure its prison perimeters, making it harder for people smuggling contraband to hide.
The Justice Department inspector general reported this month that private prisons had higher rates of assaults and contraband than regular ones.
In recent years, North Koreans have had increasing access to contraband media, exposing them to life in the South and China.
If you know that contraband ivory comes from one pinpointed site, it tells you where the next poaching event will be.
Through the door, I could see his silhouette as he turned his back to the officer and was checked for contraband.
Among them were refugees who managed to sneak out in recent weeks and residents reached by contraband cellphones in the city.
In 2006, he was convicted of aggravated assault, kidnapping, promoting prison contraband and sexual assault while incarcerated at the Tucson prison.
The Daytripper does that all for you, using a laser tripwire that automatically hides contraband apps or websites whenever it's triggered.
Inmates are often sent to solitary confinement as punishment for violating rules, such as by fighting guards or bringing in contraband.
The manual also allows ICE officers to transport "drugs or other contraband" so long as it doesn't enter the United States.
Staff at the city's jails must get written permission to search people they think may be smuggling contraband into the prison.
The guard's conduct was so blatant that inmates informed Mr. Casado's colleagues about the contraband he was providing to Mr. Zarrab.
And the story of one of its chief practitioners shows the lengths to which criminals will go to move wildlife contraband.
Instead of going away, he had cold contraband beer, and I had nothing better to do than learn more about him.
For a chunk of my childhood, I listened to the broadcast on a contraband Walkman because, you know, bedtimes and stuff.
Moreover, 22.4 percent of black people who were stopped had weapons or contraband, compared to 22005 percent of white people stopped.
Mitchell confessed to helping the inmates and was sentenced to up to seven years in state prison for promoting prison contraband.
If contraband is found, CBP officers could immediately take offenders into custody, eliminating the need to wait for police to arrive.
Last year, undercover investigators were able to smuggle fake bombs, weapons and other contraband through checkpoints in 20163 percent of tests.
Last year, undercover investigators were able to smuggle fake bombs, weapons and other contraband through checkpoints in 95 percent of tests.
"Both have resulted in enhanced security, increased seizures of contraband, and improved transparency in customs declarations, significantly benefiting both countries," OSI said.
Local media reported both were arrested and detained for several months in 2016 on charges of energy theft and possession of contraband.
His last offense at Corcoran was in February of 2016 when he was caught again with a contraband cell phone and charger.
Palmer, 57, pleaded guilty to three charges: felony and misdemeanor charges of promoting prison contraband and a misdemeanor charge of official misconduct.
Last July, the UK handed out its first ever jail sentence to an individual using a quadcopter to smuggle contraband into prison.
But the department's own data revealed that contraband was found on white drivers twice as often as on black and Hispanic drivers.
Stirling told the paper that the increase is due in part to cell phones and other contraband — and a lack of manpower.
According to ICE's own standards, detainees are not to be strip-searched unless there is reasonable suspicion that they are carrying contraband.
She bicycled around occupied territory as a liaison among different underground networks, often riding 60-70 kilometers a day and carrying contraband.
In the same year, Ireland slapped duties on coats, underwear, shoes, frocks, bread, jam and chocolate, prompting contraband in the other direction.
The National Society of Industries, a manufacturing association, warned the tax hikes in Peru would lead to more contraband and pirated goods.
Malaysia is also known as a port for contraband, ranging from North Korean weapons to endangered animal products and illegally felled trees.
Maduro says such contraband is driving chronic product shortages, while his critics insist the country's state-led economic model is to blame.
It's all because of these -- drones, a high-tech threat to prison security, delivering drugs and other contraband to prisons across America.
Prosecutors have said Silk Road was used in the sale of more than $200 million worth of illegal drugs and other contraband.
McKoy and Mohammed Sufian, another guard accused of smuggling contraband for inmates, were arraigned on the charges on Thursday in the Bronx.
In VICELAND's new series Black Market: Dispatches, we expand our look into global underground economies to see how contraband moves across borders.
The soldiers would be limited to inspecting the prisons and confiscating weapons, drugs and other contraband, but would not handle the prisoners.
A report released last week by the department's inspector general found that privately operated prisons had more problems with assaults and contraband.
Current investigative resources are insufficient to examine the millions of vehicles that cross the border every year for drugs, contraband, and currency.
Rather than searching for weapons and other contraband, soldiers extort bribes at checkpoints to pay for their habit, jacking up transport costs.
"PIA has taken a stern action to keep its fleet free from any effort of smuggling narcotics or other contraband," he said.
Michelle Bastian was being held on $100,000 bond on charges of terrorism, conspiracy to commit terrorism and conspiracy to promote prison contraband.
Forensic reports from our group and from colleagues showed that large amounts of contraband came from Tanzania and, at that time, Zambia.
This raises questions about what other prisons in the state are doing — or not doing — to keep workers from bringing in contraband.
Of those, 33 were involved in cases of excessive force or suspected cover-ups; the remaining eight involved bringing contraband into prisons.
Police say the men were caught as a result of an undercover investigation in which the entire prison was "swept" for contraband.
But despite this, the continued open sale of contraband coffee shows just how lax, and possibly corrupt, official enforcement is in Malaysia.
Wrong. One Tennessee flight attendant is finding out the hard way that just because your contraband is small doesn't make it invisible.
Speaking from his cell on a contraband cellphone, he asked us to withhold his name for fear of retribution by prison officials.
The episode ends with obligatory hints of action: Offred finally getting her hands on her contraband (courtesy of Moira), Moira breaking out.
They're requesting that hand sanitizer with alcohol be declassified as prion contraband, and seeking to increase cleaning schedules in jails and prisons.
So, for the second year in a row, red "I Love You" balloons and heart-shape boxes of chocolates were essentially contraband.
Tracing the Winmore's ownership and its contraband oil underscores the difficulty of identifying who is complicit, despite what the president's jab suggested.
During the Civil War, Keckly also started the influential Contraband Relief Association, with support from Mary Lincoln and the abolitionist Frederick Douglass.
They are mostly looking for agricultural contraband, but they also go through the mail that comes through, like every piece of mail.
Just this week, the Washington state Department of Corrections reversed its policy that banned used books based on security concerns for contraband.
Inmates and their confederates are ingenious and diabolical in terms of the lengths they will go to smuggle contraband into a prison.
This wasn&apost typical contraband, like drugs or porn — it was a set of personal data from thousands of plus-size women.
There are the furtive attempts to pass along "tricks" and contraband substances to help others with eating disorders slowly make themselves disappear.
"To wake up and do your hair and have a little bit of makeup, or maybe some contraband perfume, was everything," Hall says.
Disney added the drug to a list of banned contraband on its website following Florida's decision to legalize medical marijuana last November.—VICE
As I watched Confused-Looking Metallica Fan share a contraband e-cigarette with some new friends, I inhaled the bitter vapor of jealousy.
"It's like getting pulled over for a busted taillight, and then having contraband in the vehicle, in a sense," said the IDF spokesperson.
The South Korean government has cracked down on defector groups who use balloons to send contraband and anti-Kim leaflets into North Korea.
Inmates in a chapel as Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency personnel look for contraband among inmates at the Manila City Jail on Sept. 29.
"I used to think, 'Nah, that ain't America, that's China and Cuba,' " South Carolina inmate Harold Sasa told CNN from a contraband phone.
After an inquiry, Smith was found not guilty of possession of a weapon but was punished for the lesser offense of having contraband.
One is caught smuggling a cellphone in his rectum; the officers toss the contraband in the trash as Naz looks on, bug-eyed.
About the contraband that's found in cars and the "it wasn't me" stories that are as believable as the car who eats homework.
She noted that more federal law enforcement agents were needed to intercept illegal opioids and other "contraband" moving through U.S. ports of entry.
Britt Johnson, special agent in charge of the Atlanta FBI office, told CNN that contraband cell phones in prisons are a tremendous problem.
Last summer, its acting head was reassigned after undercover investigators smuggled weapons, fake explosives and other contraband through checkpoints at dozens of airports.
Perhaps we should look no further than the Republic of Georgia for answers of how the "Black Market" contraband apples reach Yerevan's markets.
He was released in late July, but was arrested again on Monday for felony possession of jail contraband after investigators discovered the video.
And just this week, federal prosecutors indicted 14 former prison workers for bribery and bringing drugs, cellphones and contraband into South Carolina prisons.
Three suspects were killed in a shoot-out after the movie-like heist in the contraband hub of Ciudad del Este on Monday.
The company say prison guards should be using them to prevent drones from flying over perimeter fences as a means of smuggling contraband.
The scanners will allow guards to spot contraband like weapons and drugs hidden under clothing that might otherwise be missed by metal detectors.
Border Patrol is the division of Customs and Border Protection that primarily focuses on preventing people and contraband from entering the country illegally.
But officers found contraband in the possession of African-Americans 16 percent less frequently than they did in the possession of white drivers.
The probe began examining problems with contraband and cell phones in one facility and uncovered issues in 11 of the state's 35 prisons.
Yet the vast majority of contraband smuggling, occurs not between ports of entry where the wall would be, but at the ports themselves.
GOVERNORS CALL ON FCC: Ten governors asked the commission in a Monday letter to move forward with changes to contraband cell phone regulations.
Both men were charged with possession of a controlled substance and carrying contraband within a detention facility, according to the sheriff's office post.
Trevor was arrested in November after selling her miniature contraband to undercover agents and has now been indicted on some pretty serious charges.
But Vilailuck was prepared to make sure the couple had a delicious date-night meal and was even willing to bring some contraband.
Extortion, in this instance, could be anything from suspected gang membership, acquirer of contraband, or seducer of the fairer sex of Corrections Officers.
Improvised rafts made of planks of wood floating on giant inner-tubes carried black-market Corona beer, coffee and other contraband toward Guatemala.
A similar riot erupted at the prison in 2011 after an altercation between a guard and an inmate over a contraband cell phone.
Retracing her steps, she strolled back into the prison, past an indifferent guard, and hid the contraband on a shelf in the pharmacy.
"For example, the contract prisons confiscated eight times as many contraband cell phones annually on average as the BOP institutions," the report found.
In several surreal sequences, they are shown digging through ice to reveal the contraband piracatinga fish hidden underneath a layer of legal fish.
She was found hoarding dozens of toothbrushes, seemingly for makeshift shanks, and she confessed to a year-long binge on contraband crystal meth.
American publishers were afraid to release it, so it had come out in Paris, and it was banned there too, becoming prize contraband.
The rules prohibit contraband, forbid staff members from being alone with detainees and encourage the youths to report abuse, according to the agency.
Others sneak it through airports or send it in the mail, wrapping the contraband in T-shirts and towels to deceive the authorities.
The first was a Vatican monsignor, who at one point was put under house arrest after receiving a contraband cellphone inside a cake.
On that visit, Mr. Kennard reported that the day before, hundreds of law enforcement officers had stormed the prison to search for contraband.
The detainees were responding in part to rumors that guards had mishandled a Quran while searching cells for contraband, according to detainees' lawyers.
Despite the fact that blacks are stopped more often than non-blacks in Baltimore, the police are far less likely to find contraband.
On that visit, Mr. Kennard reported that the day before, hundreds of law enforcement officers had stormed the prison to search for contraband.
BPD searched African Americans more frequently during pedestrian and vehicle stops, even though searches of African Americans were less likely to discover contraband.
The first was when the prison guards in HMP Albany dug up the body of my dead pet budgie, thinking I'd buried contraband.
While this scene has all the makings of a drug or arms deal, the contraband in this case was actually far less nefarious.
His upstairs neighbor Dusan (Christoph Waltz), who makes a living by importing full-sized contraband into Leisureland Estates, takes a particular interest in Paul.
And that soon escalated to other pieces of contraband and then all of a sudden she's making phone calls on behalf of the inmates.
Prison officials identified the contraband phones using cellphone signal-capturing devices that were installed years ago at 18 of the California&aposs 35 prisons.
Brown's been charged with misdemeanor domestic battery, obstruction of justice and 2 felonies -- drug possession with intent to sell, and having contraband in jail.
Trooper Dan Gillespie seized more contraband than anyone else on the Illinois State Police, and that made him something of a law enforcement legend.
The agency's order notes that correctional facilities have already employed "contraband interdiction systems," which are able to block wireless devices in a designated area.
As the FCC pointed out ahead of the vote, contraband cellphones have been linked to coordinated attacks on prison officials and other illegal operations.
The Harlem kid appears on "Body For My Zipcode," as he drops steely vows about threatening witnesses and running contraband across New York City.
Twice a week he hops on a slow boat that chugs over the Congo river and fills it with a hundred contraband SIM cards.
On Wednesday, McAllister agreed to dismiss charges against one of the contraband defendants and to file a motion to dismiss the charges against another.
He was proud of his contraband, smuggled in the back of his car on an 11-hour ferry ride from Cagliari to the mainland.
Federal law enforcement manning the border have been required to attempt to prevent both contraband and undocumented immigrants from entering the country, he noted.
Authorities responded to a call from the Encore hotel Tuesday night regarding contraband in one of its rooms, the  Las Vegas Review-Journal reported.
Specifically, they will be tasked with providing intelligence on transnational crime and assist with cargo dock operations and searches of commercial trucks for contraband.
The probe found that prison guards and staff were smuggling contraband such as liquor, tobacco and cell phones into the cell blocks for money.
The drugs destined for the illicit US market are getting through and dealers are successfully receiving the contraband after they easily clear US Customs.
The new episodes included the walkout, and some of the contraband that the group smuggled in, but mostly elided the role of the producers.
Those stops can even include pat-down searches so long as the officer has a "reasonable suspicion" that he or she will find contraband.
The National Guard troops are expected to help Border Patrol lower the number of people and contraband entering the U.S. through the southern border.
These include contraband, fuel, black markets for medicines and food, the systematic pillaging of state coffers and the manipulation of the artificial exchange rate.
A passenger on a 2012 Egypt Air flight from Cairo to Kuwait brought a contraband cobra onto the plane in his carry-on bag.
They do the paperwork on any major contraband discovered and ostensibly help people send property home to their family instead of having it destroyed.
But the plot ends up losing momentum as it tries to entangle Fergus, the contraband pistol, the vicious Redcoats and Jamie's call to action.
And a study showed that dogs' sensitive noses — experts at detecting explosives, drugs and other contraband — can also be trained to sniff out malaria.
Possessing too many rags is also considered contraband, and could get you an infraction, which could mean losing recreation or getting sent to solitary.
Here, the consolations of love become a kind of contraband sanity, costly and finite, smuggled in from points no longer visible on the map.
That, combined with the elimination of Venezuela's largest currency note, had interrupted long-rampant contraband of goods and cash by gangs on both sides.
The worker, Denise Prell, 39, pleaded guilty on Tuesday to 25 misdemeanor counts, including official misconduct, promoting prison contraband and sexual abuse, authorities said.
The Salvadoran group known as Los Perrones opened routes and established political contacts in order to guarantee the cheese contraband smuggled in from Nicaragua.
McMurphy stirs more trouble as he smuggles in women, alcohol, and other contraband, leading to an all-out war between him and the institution.
It was particularly sought out by men widely known to be targets: those rumored to be snitches or in debt on the contraband market.
The goal is to eliminate "contraband on both sides, the drugs on one side, and the arms and money on the other," he said.
Some argue that they are the safest way to clear out fortified drug houses and to catch criminals with contraband needed for successful prosecutions.
Now armed men and women — not police, but members of an autonomous militia — guard every entrance to the town, looking for strangers with contraband.
Using a contraband cellphone, inmate Kinetic Justice spoke to VICE News' Antonia Hylton about what led to strikes at Holman Correctional Facility in Alabama.
Contraband is effectively hidden amid rising volumes of regional trade, leaving law enforcement to play catch-up, said Jeremy Douglas, the UNODC's Asia Pacific chief.
"A cop will tell you very quickly, 'Gee, what you have now done is create a wonderful system for the transport of contraband,'" Levin says.
Over the past few years, ever-craftier prison inmates have engineered a new way to sneak drugs and other contraband into prison facilities: via drone.
Coordinating the transportation of boatloads of contraband in the midst of both a war on drugs and a war on terrorism is no easy feat.
Commander Jose Diaz told NBC News no suspects connected to the turtle's ordeal have been arrested, but smugglers likely left the contraband in a hurry.
But I wasn't the sort of kid who would've been cool enough (or frankly smart enough) to come across such felonious contraband on my own.
But records and interviews show he was banned from the county's jails last year after posing as a deputy and bringing contraband for an inmate.
Smith was one of five Fort Dix inmates accused in April of using storage cards and contraband cellphones to share child pornography inside the prison.
Leaving the customs union would also bring opportunities for shipping contraband through British ports and quiet coastal spots, as tariffs on easily transportable goods diverged.
There was no nail polish allowed in prison, but Giudice's inmate friends painted some contraband clear varnish on her nails every once in a while.
U.S. control of the skies and seas makes land the safest alternative to smuggle people and contraband from Central and South America into our country.
Speaking about his 2014 arrest, the rapper previously told GQ he was arrested after being pulled over in a car that was filled with contraband.
"Officers conducted this highly invasive search despite lacking any indication that the woman had committed a criminal offense or possessed concealed contraband," the report stated.
In 2018 — just this past August, actually — Prell plead guilty to third-degree sexual abuse and promoting prison contraband alongside 23 charges of general misconduct.
The youngest was asked to remove her clothing and was searched for contraband, which also involved shining a flashlight in her vaginal and anal area.
Venezuela's overcrowded and lawless jails are known for easy access to contraband, ranging from drugs and weapons to computers and mobile phones, rights groups say.
"Legalization there has created jobs, reduced criminality and the contraband of poor-quality marijuana, and it's a big tax boon for governments," Mr. Molinari said.
Once on shore, Hammill and the DEA both said, panga operators sometimes meet up with people connected to local gangs, who help distribute the contraband.
Thomas Bastian was indicted on four counts of terrorism, conspiracy to commit terrorism, conspiracy to commit misconduct involving weapons and conspiracy to promote prison contraband.
Bitcoin is regularly used for anonymous digital payments, including on websites like Silk Road, where it can be used to purchase contraband items including drugs.
Governors around the country have urged the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to allow states to block cell signals in prisons to combat contraband phones.
The commission voted to crack down on robocalls from fraudulent numbers and to make it easier for corrections officials to find contraband phones in prisons.
Speaking about his 2014 arrest, the rapper previously told GQ he was arrested after being pulled over in a car that was filled with contraband.
In Pakistan, where Valentine's celebrations have been banned since 2017, police have taken to searching cars for balloons, chocolates and other "contraband," per the NYTimes.
Here's what is happening: Prisons: The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is moving forward with new rules to block prisoners from making calls with contraband cellphones.
The turbo lags like a quartet of swayback hamsters are under the hood, in need of a violent rousing and doses of contraband Four Loko.
"What we believe from initial investigation is that this was all about territory, about contraband, about cellphones," said Bryan Stirling, the state's director of corrections.
Because any effective fighting style would essentially be contraband, an illicit weapon smuggled in and out of prison, it would have had to remain underground.
And believe me, matters can be made much worse if, for example, he's associating with the wrong prisoners, smuggling in contraband or associating with guards.
It didn't work: Ms. Prell was fired and pleaded guilty on Tuesday to 25 misdemeanor counts, including promoting prison contraband, sexual abuse and official misconduct.
She spent her last years in Washington, in the National Home for Destitute Colored Women and Children, which her Contraband Relief Association had helped found.
And she is so underwhelmed by the hard-won diet of bannocks and gruel, she partakes of contraband sweets purchased at a nearby convenience store.
He called the situation "dire," with decreased staffing levels the root cause of issues from contraband getting in to safety of correctional workers and inmates.
After his arrest, he told investigators he had begun smuggling in contraband to pay off his debts, including $8,000 in child support, the investigation found.
Efforts to bust sellers of bogus merchandise this year started at the end of last year's Super Bowl, with agents identifying possible sources of contraband.
There was a riot at the same police detention center last November, when terrorist detainees fought with guards during a search for contraband, including cellphones.
Contraband cheese is not new, but it has intensified as Venezuela's currency has crashed and more Venezuelans flee their homes for precarious shelter in Colombia.
In the case of the smuggled Venezuelan cheese, the big winner at the moment is the ELN, which taxes all contraband from Venezuela to Colombia.
It posts photos of confiscated contraband (agents confiscate about 70 firearms in carry-on bags each week) interspersed with images of dogs that detect explosives.
Last year, of the more than 247,340 visitors to the city's 14 jails, fewer than 0.1 percent — 305 people — were charged with smuggling in contraband.
If he has to drive to downtown Griffin, he cleans and vacuums his car, so he can easily see if someone plants drugs or contraband.
"They're treating us like animals," an inmate in a Mississippi prison told a reporter over a contraband phone, before passing it on to more prisoners.
But the nonnas are worried that a recent a crackdown on contraband orecchiette, the city's renowned ear-shaped pasta, could threaten their way of life.
Friday's edition of the Federal Register contains new protections for threatened butterflies, drug and alcohol testing requirements for truck drivers and contraband rules for prisoners.
It was unclear how the gun and other contraband had gotten into the jail, which houses about 700 inmates, many of whom are awaiting trial.
When contraband goods made from prohibited wildlife are seized in the United States, they find their way to the National Wildlife Property Repository near Denver.
Opposition leaders said they planned to take on Mr. Maduro's forces directly rather than smuggle in the aid through border routes used by contraband traffickers.
To keep their hands warm, inmates on his floor had filled a can with water, heated it with a contraband lighter and passed it around.
These facilities want to limit numbers in the visiting room to keep out contraband and to make their job of maintaining orderly visiting periods easier.
For example, in the stop and frisk data for New York City, the great majority of people stopped had no weapons or contraband on them.
New Yorkers would pack their coffers with contraband before retreating back over state lines, essentially taking advantage of one law in order to break another.
The New York Post reported that while in court on Thursday, Wildenstein used a contraband cellphone in the courtroom to fix her hair and apply makeup.
You've got to deal with long lines, uncertainty over what's considered a contraband item, and the possibility of being denied entry to the country you're visiting.
"The Department has seen a significant increase in contraband introduction over the last three years," Florida Department of Corrections press secretary Patrick Manderfield told VICE News.
He's one of the creators of an app that aims to bring the same contraband audio to modern Iran in a revamped form: the pirate podcast.
KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Malaysia has seized rhinoceros horns worth nearly $12 million bound for Vietnam, in its largest haul of such contraband, officials said on Monday.
I continued to act out, like the teenager I was, by committing all the standard rule infractions, among them insolence to staff and possession of contraband.
Morpho Detection will become part of Smiths Group's Detection division, which designs and manufactures sensors that detect and identify explosives, weapons, chemical agents and other contraband.
Authorities were able to arrest the pilot and recover the smuggled goods, but as drone technology has advanced, arrests and intercepting contraband have become much rarer.
In the 19th century China was defeated in two wars against Britain that were caused by British sales of contraband opium produced from Indian-grown poppies.
Though the sale of rhino horn is illegal, the contraband item is coveted in China and Vietnam for its alleged medicinal qualities and as an aphrodisiac.
In September of 2015, she plead guilty to promoting prison contraband and facilitating criminal behavior, a plea deal that would protect her from more egregious charges.
Without probable cause to suspect contraband in a car, police should be barred from pulling over drivers and subjecting them to warrantless searches whenever they please.
Now, the company is trying to make it out of the store with all that contraband stuffed under its shirt before the security guard ambles back.
State officials blamed the fights on personal and gang-related disputes, as well as access to contraband like cellphones that allowed disputes to spread more widely.
You stand as a symbol of initiative, ingenuity, and the simple dream of a big-ass cannon blasting contraband hundreds of meters into the United States.
The second because he had created a pillow for his sore back by sewing together two towels and thus created an unauthorized object regarded as contraband.
Tonight, watch the series premiere of Black Market: Dispatches, our new show where we explore how contraband moves across borders by embedding ourselves inside criminal enterprises.
In both federal and state penal facilities, contraband access to cell phones is common, which prison officials have long alleged they need more tools to address.
Abbie, a German Shepherd-Belgian Malinois mix, was conducting a routine search for contraband at the Clackamas County Jail with her handler around 7:30 p.m.
Sabha, about 660 km (410 miles) south of Tripoli, has been a hub for the smuggling of African migrants and other contraband towards Libya's Mediterranean coast.
They have already been put to a host of nefarious uses, from smuggling contraband into prisons to swarming F.B.I. agents who were preparing for a raid.
But the decision of the Northern Army to treat the slaves fleeing to its lines as military contraband helped to expand the mission of the war.
The idea that such contraband would be returned to its Southern owners was inconceivable, and thus de facto emancipation grew, carried on by the slaves themselves.
In April, he was transferred to a different prison after he was alleged to be running a pharmaceutical company from his cell with a contraband cellphone.
According to the Beaumont Enterprise, sheriff's deputies had previously been tipped off that inmates on work release often sneak out to snag snacks and other contraband.
He said there's been a decline in the total number of stops in recent years, and that most involved confiscation of weapons, drugs and other contraband.
If "potential contraband" was seen during the scan, the visitors would have been given a choice: to get strip-searched or leave without visiting an inmate.
The report found police discovered contraband in seven out of 10 searches of white drivers' vehicles, compared to three out of 10 of black drivers' vehicles.
Black drivers were more than twice as likely as their white counterparts to be searched during vehicle stops, but 26 percent less likely to have contraband.
Multiple law enforcement agencies recently teamed up to conduct a contraband search at St. Clair that recovered 167 makeshift weapons, said Bob Horton, a department spokesman.
"You used to have the tractor-trailer running up the interstate, with its contraband, that had to be met by someone and distributed," Mr. Lechleitner said.
We don't have cleaning wipes, alcohol-based hand sanitizer (it's contraband), or anything else that the CDC is recommending citizens use to prevent spreading the virus.
He urged the governments of countries where the poaching occurs to turn over contraband as soon as it is seized so it can be genetically analyzed.
They are not allowed to have phones, which are considered contraband and can land someone in a special housing unit, where inmates are sent for punishment.
We passed our contraband from desk to desk and scrambled for our turn to stand on the school bus seats to read the raunchiest passages aloud.
Critics say juicy government contracts, corruption, and contraband mean many military officials want Maduro to stay in office and fear persecution should the opposition take power.
That would help to close a loophole that has allowed dangerous drugs like the opioid fentanyl and other contraband to pass into the United States unchecked.
Mexico could retaliate further by giving up efforts to secure its southern border with Central America, augmenting the flows of migrants and contraband to the north.
Meanwhile, in November, South Carolina authorities indicted more than 50 people for involvement in a drug trafficking ring run from state prisons via contraband cell phones.
What they're saying: "Border officers must now demonstrate individualized suspicion of contraband before they can search a traveler's device," the ACLU said in a news release.
My wonkishness led me to make older friends; as a high school freshman I hung out with juniors and seniors, who would pass on literary contraband.
According to Tulsa World, Mayo had been accused of sneaking contraband into the prison, and was subsequently questioned by officers who asked to search his backpack.
For decades, Ukraine has been a key route for the westward movement of anything from Afghan heroin to black market arms, contraband cigarettes and trafficked people.
The recent crackdown on dark web that ended bustling black markets AlphaBay and Hansa didn't end with those two high-profile English-language contraband bazaars, it seems.
Legally, customs agents have the right to physically inspect items as they enter the country, part of the legal mandate for keeping contraband from crossing the border.
Critics say juicy government contracts, corruption and contraband mean that many military officials want Maduro to stay in office and fear persecution should the opposition take power.
At ports of entry, officers also have to check the papers of people coming who already have legal status and scan cars for drugs and other contraband.
In exchange, Casado would smuggle contraband, including alcohol and cellphones, as well as food, Vitamin C and over-the-counter pain medication for the inmate, prosecutors said.
The South Carolina riot was sparked by a fight among prison gangs over turf and contraband around the time of a shift change in three cell blocks.
"Over the last two years, the Department worked to develop a secure vendor package program to increase facility safety by reducing the introduction of contraband," Mailey said.
In fact, given the latest media blitz and the fact that possession of a contraband cellphone is a federal crime, Shkreli may already be in solitary confinement.
Catlin alleges that the CBP inspector accused his daughter, who was menstruating, of sneaking in contraband via her maxi pad and they proceeded to touch that area.
On January 1, 1985, Eastern Air Lines Flight 19893, a jet carrying 29 passengers and a lot of contraband snakeskins, hit a 21,000-foot mountain in Bolivia.
On January 1, 1985, Eastern Air Lines Flight 980, a jet carrying 29 passengers and a lot of contraband snakeskins, hit a 21,000-foot mountain in Bolivia.
"Existing measures include regular patrols by staff, monitoring of cameras, exercise yards have netting fitted to prevent contraband being dropped or thrown into that area," he said.
This feature helps them find contraband, like  cell phones , weapons or drugs that criminals have either thrown over the fence or dropped in with drones at night.
A Reuters analysis previously found that since 2012 more than 50 guards at the jail, which houses about 10,000 inmates, have faced criminal charges, including smuggling contraband.
In the US, criminals have used drones to deliver narcotics across the southern border, drop contraband inside prisons, conduct illicit surveillance and interfere with law enforcement operations.
Nolan rightly points out that the modern American police system rewards officers for the wrong things, including number of arrests made and the amount of contraband seized.
His county, an expanse of desert and rugged mountains near the Arizona-Mexico border, is a major route for drug cartels bringing contraband to Phoenix and Tucson.
He was previously transferred from New Jersey's Federal Correctional Institute, Fort Dix, to Allenwood, Pa., after he was reported to be in possession of a contraband cellphone.
Those handpicked few are trained to detect threats such as explosives or contraband including narcotics, said David Ferland, who heads the United States Police Canine Association (USPCA).
It found that private prisons were more violent and problematic than public prisons by many measures, including discovery of contraband like cellphones, reports of assaults, and lockdowns.
Since INTERPOL estimates seized contraband only represents about 10 percent of what's actually smuggled across borders, much more poached ivory is likely entering the US each year.
BOP personnel launched what it called a comprehensive search recovering contraband including cell phones, narcotics and home-made weapons, according to a BOP press release issued Thursday.
If contraband is discovered, the officers involved in the search, as well as the supervising captain, are required to fill out a report, according to the indictment.
A dealer smuggling ivory out of an African port may not know the local boss overseeing poaching or the trader who eventually sells the contraband in Asia.
Documents from 1993, when he requested a conditional release, reveal that he had had sex with at least three hospital employees and obtained contraband, including pornographic materials.
They have mortgaged property, sold kitchen appliances and even borrowed money from the same smuggling rings that pack them on the floorboards alongside drugs and other contraband.
One resident of Apure, who admitted to working as a contraband smuggler, put it simply: "At the end of the day, we all work for the guerrillas."
His six-year prison sentence began in January 22017, after authorities abducted the reporter in Georgia and charged him with illegally crossing the border and carrying contraband.
Lighter fare: In a rollicking dispatch from southern Italy, our reporter explains why some people see a crackdown on contraband pasta as another distressing sign of globalization.
His six-year prison sentence began in January 2018, after authorities abducted the reporter in Georgia and charged him with illegally crossing the border and carrying contraband.
Indeed, BPD officers found contraband twice as often when searching white individuals compared to African Americans during vehicle stops and 50 percent more often during pedestrian stops.
Dozens of Alabama inmates possess contraband cellphones — some told VICE News they bought the phones illegally from guards — and on April 30 they received a text message.
Dozens of Alabama inmates possess contraband cellphones — some told VICE News they bought the phones illegally from guards — and on April 20143 they received a text message.
As reports of misuse mounted, legislators responded by declaring heroin contraband, surrendering the drug to underground production and forfeiting the ability to regulate it in any way.
Previously, Valdet said in a phone interview with Swiss media that he was patrolling the Euphrates near the Turkish border with ISIS forces looking for smugglers and contraband.
In a 3-0 vote, the FCC today opened up options for jails and prisons to more easily use new technology to shut down contraband cellphones in facilities.
Today's order speeds up the authorization process by cutting back on paperwork, and also requires wireless carriers to work with facilities on the use of contraband interdiction systems.
The courts solemnly debated whether the drawings were closer to pornography—which might be censored, but also allowed as free speech—or evil non-returnable contraband, like drugs.
Global trade in rhino horn is banned by the UN, but this contraband item fetches a handsome price on the black market, reaching upwards of $53,900 per kilo.
Government officials said dozens of police and security force members swooped down on buildings in the central Tepito neighborhood of Mexico City, long known for its contraband activity.
We leave that room, and spend another 15 minutes in the administrative hallway, where our guide shows off an old-timey collage of contraband taken from the inmates.
"We have been attacked by drones, they have been delivering contraband into our institutions for the past few years," said South Carolina Department of Corrections Director Bryan Stirling.
He says this is about five months' worth of drugs, tobacco, cell phones, chargers, and other contraband smuggled in the old-fashioned way, hidden in things like books.
Last week, two guards and six inmates at the troubled Rikers Island jail complex were among 17 people charged with running extensive contraband networks involving weapons and drugs.
Our sources say police searched the Lambo but did not find any drugs, guns or contraband ... so Dolph was ticketed for littering and driving with an expired tag.
At the Portland event, Wapner referred to a set of cups he pulled from his bag as "contraband" because they were made by the German company Flash Cups.
Of course, that is entirely possible at Fort Dix, given the reported pliability of the guards and the amount of contraband that has historically been on the compound.
Leahy sought to press the point again on Wednesday — suggesting that Kavanaugh did, indeed, have more knowledge about the contraband nature of these documents than he let on.
Even though the films, photographs and letters had been left behind for decades, Mr. Dondyuk said he hid the contraband during every checkpoint search at the exclusive zone.
At a bookstore in Kuwait City, the proprietor showed off a secret cupboard full of contraband books behind the cash register and a basement storeroom with even more.
Countries across Latin America are shutting down borders and preventing air travel, which is likely to significantly disrupt criminal economies like drug trafficking, contraband smuggling and human trafficking.
In Rome, Paul will be tasked with making a bloated Italian operation lean and profitable, which for now sounds better than contraband moonshine and veils in Saudi Arabia.
"This is a smuggled drug, a smuggled piece of contraband that has a black market value inside and uses for which it is not intended," Sheriff Koutoujian said.
The inmates arranged for civilian accomplices to deliver marijuana and other contraband to the guards, who received thousands of dollars to smuggle the drugs past security, prosecutors said.
Prosecutors in Palermo issued a warrant to detain 15 suspects for people smuggling and trafficking in contraband cigarettes, according to a copy of the document seen by Reuters.
These facilities are part of a contraband industry whose profitability by some estimates is surpassed only by the global trade in drugs and arms, and by human trafficking.
Later, after discovering my daughter had secreted a contraband Chromebook in her room to watch late-night Friends, all devices would be sequestered in the master bedroom overnight.
In recent years, a number of high-profile marketplaces on the dark web were taken down for selling drugs and other contraband, including Silk Road, AlphaBay and Hansa.
Other music lovers soon learned to create their own lathes, and the musical contraband spread from Leningrad to Moscow, Kiev, Odessa, and other major cities in the USSR.
Becker argued that tests for racial discrimination should focus on the outcome alone: in this case whether police searches of vehicles yield contraband, such as drugs or illegal weapons.
Or smugglers could just continue to do what many of them are doing anyway: cross the border "the right way" — at a port of entry — with contraband in tow.
California has since installed nearly 1,000 sophisticated metal detectors, scanners and secret security cameras in prisons to detect and deter the smuggling of cellphones and other contraband like drugs.
In reality though, she has seeking answers about contraband films: These movies feature an alternate reality version of the United States in which the Allied powers won the war.
Perhaps you bought some illegal narcotics on the Silk Road half a decade ago, back when that digital black market for every contraband imaginable was still online and bustling.
Mansour is widely said to have been a major player in Afghanistan's multi-billion-dollar drug production and smuggling business, which along with other contraband helps fund the insurgency.
ICE and CBP have the authority to search the belongings of people entering the country for contraband, potentially breaking immigration law, and, of course, if they have a warrant.
Smugglers used drones to get contraband over prison walls 33 times in 2015 compared with just two times in 2014 and none in 2013, according to the Press Association.
According to the Los Angeles Times, Nicholas was staying at the Encore hotel when security alerted Las Vegas Metropolitan Police to the presence of illegal contraband in his suite.
"When the Essex County Correctional Facility receives credible information about security threats, it initiates a lockdown so that a search can be conducted to collect any contraband," Puglisi said.
The man, John Miska, who was wearing a handgun in a shoulder holster, visited a drugstore and purchased razor blades, which qualified as contraband under the city's emergency declaration.
A few states, including Washington, are also toying with additional penalties for individuals using drones specifically to carry contraband – though that is the impetus of the entire legislative push.
Because of the established procedures in place and this contraband was submitted to the Institute of Forensic Science it was determined not to be methamphetamine and charges were dismissed. 
The goal was to rob the FARC and the National Liberation Army (ELN), two of the biggest rebel groups in the country, of their control of commerce and contraband.
I first read about the importance of the little black dress in an old issue of Cosmopolitan — back when I was in middle school and the magazine was contraband.
Earlier this year, seven inmates at a maximum-security South Carolina prison were killed in what officials have said was a gang fight over territory and contraband including cellphones.
At the time, all three officers were part of the now-defunct Passenger Enforcement Rover Team (PERT), which was responsible for identifying dangerous contraband and threats to national security.
Later on Monday night, Maduro announced in a televised broadcast that he would close the porous border for 72 hours to stem what he said was contraband of notes.
"At approximately 12:15 pm I received information... that an inmate later identified as Meadows... was walking on the unit with unauthorized contraband inside his shirt," the report reads.
The bureau said that possessing a contraband cellphone was considered a severe offense and could result in discipline, including being separated from the inmate population and having visits restricted.
The report recommends that the dogs be deployed differently in the future to make their presence less predictable and to target specific flights that might turn up more contraband.
Yet Ms Wilson (who is also black) decides to search his locker and, finding contraband fireworks, considers them more evidence that his cool, charming exterior is only a front.
Staff members also had to escort inmates to the private room and inspect the material to make sure no pages were missing and that it did not contain contraband.
Jay tells tales of devious book dealers, befuddled English aristocrats, suspicions of forgery, and treasures sold like contraband in New York hotel rooms and from the trunks of cars.
"The new search procedures promote the safety of the guards and inmates by more effectively preventing the hoarding of medication and the smuggling of dangerous contraband," the opinion concluded.
Frightened by the town's Islamic fundamentalism, Fadhma rails against the man who put him up to it: her own brother, who scavenges contraband merchandise from the detritus of war.
Federal inspectors routinely stop boats, but just as in the region's prisons, the search and seizure efforts on the river intercept only a fraction a tiny fraction of contraband.
Prosecutors said Schulte, after being arrested in New York, attempted to leak even more classified information using a contraband cellphone that had been smuggled into the Metropolitan Correctional Center.
He said he would fight others at every opportunity, beginning on his first day, when he lashed out at staff members who were trying to search him for contraband.
He looked attentive, jotted down notes and managed to refrain from sipping the contraband chocolate milk he was busted for drinking out of a bottle during the Tuesday proceeding.
The works had only two things in common: Readers hungered for them, and each had been designated contraband by the Communist Party's Central Leading Group for Propaganda and Ideology.
But she never thought she would be standing naked and in tears before two New York City Department of Correction officers as they checked her body cavities for contraband.
Mitchell was sentenced in September 2015 to up to seven years for first-degree promoting prison contraband, a felony, and a concurrent year for fourth-degree misdemeanor criminal facilitation.
Under the law, she said, border agents who question citizens and legal permanent residents are permitted to verify only identity, legal status and whether a person is carrying contraband.
Boxers needed to peek out just below our skirts, which were rolled up several inches at the waistband, so that we looked as though we were packing contraband anacondas.
The same thing can be done with x-rays—it's the idea behind the Z Backscatter Vans that are used to peer inside cargo vehicles for bombs or contraband.
The pretty teenage girl Jared thought he was flirting with was, according to charges later filed by local authorities, two thickset, middle-aged, male inmates working contraband cell phones.
The Metropolitan Correctional Center and other federal prisons across the United States have been dealing with rising levels of violence and other safety problems, including an influx of contraband.
According to the suit, he is accused of threatening to report both women for having contraband, which he provided them, if they did not comply with his sexual requests.
Studies show these tactics are disproportionately deployed against black communities — even though stops involving black people are typically less likely to turn up contraband than stops involving white people.
A month later, surveillance cameras were installed along the prison fence, and over the next three weeks, cops watched as inmates escaped to retrieve large bags of contraband, documents show.
On average, they confiscated eight times as many contraband cell phones as public prisons, suggesting the prisons are less secure, and the private prisons also relied more on solitary confinement.
Technology that stops drones delivering contraband to prisons could be used to prevent chaotic flight disruptions like those seen at London's Gatwick Airport this week, an industry expert told CNBC.
Two years ago this week, Ross Ulbricht was sentenced to life in prison without parole for running the Silk Road, an unprecedented dark web bazaar for drugs and other contraband.
"You'll get them back when you leave," she reassured us, as I took a handful of Charlee Bear snacks out of my pocket and dumped them in the contraband bucket.
The unexpected death leaves a vacuum in the campus drug supply; a supply that is further hampered by a movement to crack down on all narcotic contraband on school property.
KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 13 (Reuters) - Malaysia has seized rhinoceros horns worth nearly $12 million bound for Vietnam, the Southeast Asian nation's largest haul of such contraband, officials said on Monday.
Given that the only known mannequin challenge performed by prison inmates (filmed and uploaded on a contraband cellphone) also took place in Alabama, we may be in for a sequel.
In the years that followed, US Customs agents seized cigars they found in travelers' bags as contraband or even tore the smokes apart in front of their would-be owners.
Our stash was unprotected so I put my elbow on the glove box as if by casually leaning on it there couldn't possibly be $1,000 worth of contraband inside. Leaning.
UPS was accused of having shipped since 2010 more than 683,000 cartons of untaxed "contraband" cigarettes to unlicensed wholesalers, unlicensed retailers and residences, often from smoke shops on Indian reservations.
Accused by critics of taking a nonsensical and rushed measure, Maduro, 54, justified it as an attempt to outwit international mafias, especially on the Colombian border, hoarding bolivars for contraband.
In exchange, Casado would smuggle contraband, including alcohol and cellphones, as well as food, Vitamin C and over-the-counter pain medication into the jail for Inmate-1, prosecutors said.
When it comes to international drugstore products, I am essentially a smuggler, dragging home suitcases jammed with contraband lip balm and retinol creams the FDA doesn't need to know about.
UPS was accused of having since 2010 shipped more than 683,000 cartons of untaxed "contraband" cigarettes to unlicensed wholesalers, unlicensed retailers and residences, often from smoke shops on Indian reservations.
In its ruling, the US District Court in Massachusetts ruled that it violates the Fourth Amendment for Homeland Security officials to search travelers' electronic devices without "individualized suspicion" of contraband.
Imprisoned members of the Mexicles, a Juárez gang allied with the Sinaloa Cartel, stoked the violence to stop a search of the prison to find weapons, drugs, and other contraband.
According to Emma Grey Ellis at Wired, inmates have organized, with help from family, friends, and outside groups like the Incarcerated Workers Organizing Committee, using contraband cellphones and social media.
And thanks to the prevalence of contraband phones and social media, federal prisoners are better able than ever to participate in or at least keep tabs on the national conversation.
The kids have added to the murals themselves, often with collages — contraband like magazines is typically banned from such facilities, but Mr. E renders them acceptable materials for art therapy.
In a statement, the Legal Aid Society noted that inmates themselves might not be able to use the hand sanitizer — it could be considered contraband because of the alcohol content.
Background: The report underscored the conditions depicted in more than 21810,25 photographs, sent to The Times, of violent incidents and contraband inside the St. Clair Correctional Facility, northeast of Birmingham.
When Mr. Zarrab was moved to another facility, a search of his cell turned up contraband and the handwritten note from Mr. Casado offering his services in exchange for money.
Last week, Defense Secretary Jim Mattis was exploring whether the Navy could intercept and board an Iranian ship to look for contraband weapons possibly headed to Houthi fighters in Yemen.
We took a look at the surprising ways smugglers try to get contraband into the U.S. About two million pounds of illegal drugs were seized at the border last year.
"I'm wondering, what's the next species?" said Timothy C. Bonebrake, a biologist at the University of Hong Kong's conservation forensics laboratory, which assists local law enforcement in analyzing wildlife contraband.
Unay Bayona, 24, an independent merchant, said he doubted prices would ever rise enough to match those in Colombia, and that residents would continue to view contraband as an option.
According to Centinel's intelligence, depots for the contraband diesel are often hidden in old, abandoned stores in rural villages and also in factory buildings, where guards keep the barrels secure.
The officers piled the contraband onto the Shin Jyi Chyuu 33's deck and, when they ran out of room there, piled the rest into a bloody heap on the dock.
And South Carolina officials blamed a prison riot that killed seven inmates in April on a turf war between gangs over territory, money and contraband items such as drugs and cellphones.
At the vote, the agency introduced a retired captain from the South Carolina Department of Corrections who was shot six times after a hit was put out on a contraband phone.
The marijuana aficionado may not find Augusta National, where smartphones are considered contraband, particularly laid back if he decides to indulge in one of his favorite pastimes while on the grounds.
North Korea is already among the most heavily sanctioned nations, facing numerous strictures to limit its ability to conduct commerce, participate in international finance and trade in weapons and other contraband.
Watts is physically searched several times per day and each day there is a complete cell inspection to ensure he is not hiding any contraband with which he could harm himself.
FOZ DO IGUAÇU, Brazil (Reuters) - On a chilly morning, with a breeze blowing in from Paraguay, customs officials occasionally stop and search vehicles crossing Brazil's busiest border point, looking for contraband.
He attested he didn't know the meat contained contraband; however, the meat in itself was illegal for prisoners to have, as convicts at Clinton Correction are prohibited from cooking their cells.
Koder was still living out of Dubai at the time of his arrest, while his syndicate has historically been caught trying to ship contraband from as far afield as the Netherlands.
It also has security functions such as holding county prisoners and keeping out drugs and other contraband that could be hoisted in from a nearby street or dropped from a drone.
The total amount of contraband came from six suspected drug smuggling vessel operations along with the discovery of floating cocaine bales between late June and mid-July, the Coast Guard said.
Contraband phones, sometimes used in violent crimes, also are used by inmates "to run phone scams and con innocent members of the public out of their hard-earned money," Pai said.
Called Woolim, this tablet is designed to limit the distribution of contraband media, track its users, and generally act as a propaganda platform for the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK).
Correa ran his own hustle out of the funeral home, which was owned by a friend: he bought contraband French perfume from a contact in Panama, then sold it in Medellín.
Underlining the bias in the San Francisco police force, the report found that although blacks and Latinos were disproportionately searched and arrested, they were less likely to be found with contraband.
Mitchell compared surveillance of the black community to a type of digital Stop and Frisk, a controversial policing practice of detaining and searching citizens on the street for weapons and contraband.
No team from the United Nations came to inspect the ship but local authorities did not find any contraband on board except some broken aids to navigation equipment, the coastguard said.
The Mambas track about 78 miles of the park's border for eight hours a day, looking for snares or traps, inspecting the border fence and searching cars for weapons or contraband.
These funds include $564 million for equipment to detect contraband at ports of entry, $100 million for surveillance technology along the southern border, and $414 million to address humanitarian border needs.
Democrats have long pushed for a border security solution that centers heavily on technology, along with physical barriers, since the overwhelming majority of contraband drugs are flowing through ports of entry.
The major prisons are at 182 percent of their capacity, the report found, contraband is rampant and prisoners sleep in dorms they are not assigned to in order to escape violence.
And one dorm close to the perimeter's fence that was closed down because of contraband that was getting thrown over, is now being transformed into a temporary medical center, Swanson said.
An investigation by The New York Times last year revealed that federal prisons across the country were dealing with rising violence and contraband problems as staffing at the facilities had dwindled.
US assistance to provide cellphone jamming technology and better x-ray technology — to improve detection of contraband, especially drugs, phones and firearms — was often used improperly or not used at all.
In that context, the nightmare vision of The Handmaid's Tale felt like a kind of lifesaving contraband, an explosive secret truth with the power to bring the world to its knees.
Most of them are contraband, seized at airports in New York City, Los Angeles and other major ports of entry; some are donated by people who have no use for them.
Another worry is that paper products such as books could be hollowed out to hide contraband, while especially thick books can sometimes block other items during the X-Ray screening process.
The anti-crime tactic in which police stop, question and search pedestrians for weapons or contraband, gained traction in New York City under Mayor Rudy Giuliani, now a top Trump supporter.
We stayed in New Orleans for a few full weeks: the break-up of the relationship, the gospel tents at the jazz festival, days on a fishing boat full of contraband. . . .
The poor visibility created "a dangerous situation" inside the jail, he said, and complicated tasks such as searching inmates for contraband or moving them back to their cells in a lockdown.
"Because courthouse visitors are typically screened upon entry to search for weapons and other contraband, the safety risks for the arresting officers and persons being arrested are substantially decreased," the letter states.
Allowing incarcerated people to connect with those outside prison, for free and in ways that can be monitored, may likely reduce recidivism and clean up the cell phone contraband problem as well.
In Aden&aposs Beir Ahmed prison, where al-Anbari was held, hundreds of inmates were forced to undress and Emirati officers searched their anal cavities, claiming to be looking for contraband cellphones.
According to that report, airline employees and other informers had an incentive to search more travellers' bags, since they received payment whenever their actions resulted in DEA seizures of cash or contraband.
SHUMEN, Bulgaria — Acting on a tip, the police raided four homes in eastern Bulgaria, looking for contraband that regularly traverses this country on the way to markets in Western Europe and America.
The market—this time, contraband fentanyl and lesser known carfentanil (developed as an elephant tranquilizer and 10,000 times more powerful than morphine)—have been filling the void, with deadly but predictable results.
It's so far unclear whether the man and woman were flying the drone into the prison compound in order to smuggle in contraband, or if they were operating the drone at all.
A lot of prison employees did not believe that an inmate should ever come back and work inside a correctional facility, that we were just going to smuggle in drugs and contraband.
In 2013, authorities shut down Silk Road, an online marketplace that used the dark web and bitcoins to let users trade in legal goods as well as illicit drugs and other contraband.
The riot, sparked by gangs within the prison who were warring over territory, money and contraband, left seven inmates dead and 22009 injured, many of them stabbed or slashed by improvised blades.
Nangarhar, on the border with Pakistan, has large deposits of talc as well as minerals such as chromite and marble, and sits on major smuggling routes used for drugs and other contraband.
We're explaining how a World War II bomb caused an evacuation in Germany this week, and we're taking a look at how drones have become an illegal tool in transferring prison contraband.
He had been imprisoned in Fort Dix, New Jersey, but was moved after The Wall Street Journal said in March he was using a contraband smartphone to secretly run Phoenixus from prison.
Socialist President Nicolas Maduro said the withdrawal of the bill - worth just 2100 U.S. cents on the black market - was needed to reduce contraband of the banknotes on the Venezuela-Colombia border.
In a plea deal with prosecutors, guard Gene Palmer admitted to "promoting prison contraband" charges and to official misconduct in connection with the escape of convicted murders Richard Matt and David Sweat.
Circuit Judge Roger Gregory found "overwhelming evidence" that the intrusion was unreasonable, despite the asserted need by prison officials to police the security threat posed by inmates carrying contraband within their bodies.
What the prison saw as one drone a week flying into restricted airspace became a realization that multiple drone flights per day were occurring in attempts to smuggle contraband onto prison grounds.
The investigation revealed that inmates would tell their relatives and friends to give contraband and cash to Mr. McKoy, whom they referred to using the nicknames the Plug and Ticks-and-Fleas.
It has chalked up a 32 percent jump in prison-related corruption cases since 2013-228 in part through the help of dogs trained to sniff out cell phones and other contraband.
Escobar noted that she supports technology at ports of entry that could intercept "drugs and contraband," but has been meeting with experts to better learn which technologies could pose privacy risks.  Rep.
The US District Court of Massachusetts issued an order on Tuesday, ruling that agents need specific and individual suspicion of illegal contraband to search a traveler's phone, laptop, or other digital device.
Their connections to local politicians and security forces have helped them take territory from other criminal groups, as they profit from activities ranging from protection rackets and contraband sales to illegal construction.
In August of 244, the Department of Justice's Office of the Inspector General released a report concluding that, compared with federal facilities, private prisons had higher rates of assault, contraband and lockdowns.
The rapper -- who is already serving 7 years for his murder conspiracy conviction -- appeared in court with attorney Paul London Friday and pled guilty to the crime of attempted promoting prison contraband.
A 0003 United Nations estimate pegged AQIM's yearly budget at $15 million, the FDD noted, with the group's funding derived predominantly from activities such as ransom, smuggling, cigarettes and trading in contraband.
Outlander The first rule of drama: If a group of irrepressible scamps find a contraband pistol in the first act, one of them has to lose a hand by the third act.
In addition, the report found at least six cases of "contraband television sets with cable connections" in officers' areas, as well comfy chairs, mattresses, pillows and — in one case — a portable hammock.
But that did not stop the curious and the rapacious from pouring into the area surrounding the airport — by then cordoned off by the authorities — in a frenzied search for contraband riches.
As it neared the Suez Canal in August, according to a Western diplomat familiar with the case, the Americans warned the Egyptians it might be carrying contraband, effectively forcing them to intervene.
It takes many hours, several security checks, zero access to your cellphone — and two quarters (used for two separate locker checkpoints to drop off personal contraband, like pens, notepads and electronic devices).
" They're planning to target North American warehouses in particular, giving CBP more authority to oversee packages in the warehouses and business owners to engage in "bulk abandonment and destruction of contraband goods.
In 2007, South Korea cloned the country's first canine and since 2011 has been using an elite army of highly-trained golden Labrador retrievers to search out contraband at Seoul's Incheon airport.
He said such a steep penalty was justified because the company acted with an "entitled sense of disregard" in failing to vet shipments from entities with a history of dealing in contraband.
A good deal of the cash he needed to prepare the Great October Socialist Revolution was channeled through an import-export company that specialized in contraband pharmaceuticals, lead pencils and German condoms.
Early in the war, when three fugitive male slaves showed up at the Union stronghold Fortress Monroe, Virginia, the commanding general, Benjamin Butler, effectively emancipated them by declaring them "contraband" of war.
"The problem isn't immigration, but drug trafficking and contraband," Security Minister Patricia Bullrich said after the Bolivian authorities questioned why she was publicly singling out Bolivian, Paraguayan and Peruvian immigrants for scrutiny.
In a 2016 survey by the Department of Homeland Security Inspector General (IG), the TSA missed 95 percent of the weapons and assorted contraband carried into commercial aircraft cabins by undercover investigators.
David Sweat pleaded guilty to two counts of escape and one of promoting prison contraband in November, five months after he was shot and captured about two miles from the Canadian border.
Mr Bloomberg's tenure is perhaps best remembered for his support of a policy known as "stop-and-frisk", in which New York police liberally stopped residents to search for weapons and contraband.
That leads to a subscription service, selling contraband medicine for a monthly fee with the help of Rayon (Jared Leto, in another Oscar triumph), a transgender woman who becomes his business partner.
As for his house arrest ... the Philly D.A.'s Office tells us everything's set for Meek to go under lockdown ... including his monitoring device and clearing his home of contraband and weapons.
But based on conversations with others about the incident, Trotta suspects Burke may have been shaking down drug dealers for crack and using the contraband with his girlfriend while they had sex.
" He added that "if mystery boxes are filled with leftover inventory, there is a good chance that customers are receiving bottom-of-the-barrel contraband that failed to sell on its own.
That's something the IWOC is looking to change, recruiting prisoners through clandestine and contraband methods to join up with a new kind of guild, free of union dues considering their constituents' circumstances.
"When I turned down the guards [for sex] I was thrown in confinement or my stuff was torn apart, my pictures [of family] ripped up, sheets stepped on, contraband taken away," Hall says.
Morpho Detection will become part of Smiths Group's Detection division, which designs and manufactures sensors that detect and identify explosives, weapons, chemical agents and other contraband, Safran said in a statement on Thursday.
Then they were careful to move their digital contraband through at least three foreign countries, ensuring that at least one had unfriendly relations with the United States, to throw pursuers off China's scent.
Philippine customs officials were astonished when they opened nicely gift-wrapped boxes of cookies and oatmeal flown in all the way from Poland and found a hair-raising contraband: hundreds of live tarantulas.
The team of prison and police officers will work together to inspect drones that have been found in prisons and track down where they came from and who tried to smuggle contraband in.
Smugglers use rope or metal wire to attach loads filled with contraband to the bottom of a drone, which can be altered or modified to drop the loads by hand-held remote controls.
Bitcoin and other blockchain-based currencies have been associated with libertarian hopes of anonymous digital payments and criminals on dark websites like the Silk Road, who used the currency to purchase contraband anonymously.
It was the latest in a string of problems, from a spike in violence to a crackdown on corrections officers running contraband networks, facing the department run by Commissioner Joseph Ponte since 2014.
And now police warn that the dolls may be being used to smuggle drugs and contraband (with miscreants betting that security guards will be too tactful—or squeamish—to prod and poke them).
Such events are becoming increasingly common, not just in the use of drones to deliver contraband but in all sorts of other nefarious activities, from paparazzi spying on celebrities to burglars casing properties.
TMZ also reports that Brown has been charged with drug possession with intent to sell and possession of contraband in jail — both felonies — as he had methamphetamine on him when he was arrested.
As an artist he has used them in other performances — he spent eight months training 50 pigeons to carry contraband cigars, and cameras to record the event, from Cuba to Key West, Fla.
He tore the page from the magazine, divided it into thirds, and shared one third with me and one with Donald Dundun, offering us this shredded contraband as a surprise on Christmas Eve.
Three German nationals accused of running one of the world's largest dark websites for selling drugs and other contraband were arrested last week and charged in two countries following a two-year investigation.
The pigeon was reportedly coming from Iraq when customs employees tracked and captured it at the border, upon which they noticed it had strapped to its back a camouflaged knapsack stuffed with contraband.
A state-commissioned study in 2003 found that minority drivers were more likely than white drivers to be both stopped and searched, even though officers found contraband more often when searching white drivers.
But drug-war reformers and civil libertarians contend the Broward Sheriff's Office appears to be abusing Florida's Contraband Forfeiture Act by catching individuals off guard in the anxiety-inducing confines of an airport.
A search by the police turned up no weapons, no drugs, no "contraband," but did find basketball gear, a few schoolbooks, a Bible and a copy of "The Long Valley" by John Steinbeck.
Her decision also shows how marijuana's status as contraband remains deeply embedded in the criminal justice system, even as the police and prosecutors have begun to wind down arrests and prosecutions for marijuana.
An 2016 memo ordered the Justice Department to reduce the use of private prisons after a DOJ report revealed they had higher rates of contraband, violence, and use of force than public prisons.
The FBI announced Thursday that almost 50 current and former Georgia Department of Corrections officers were indicted for allegedly pocketing bribes in exchange for helping sneak contraband into prisons, as the Washington Post reports.
The billion-dollar black market site was once the premiere online bazaar for drugs and other contraband, but it remained hidden from casual internet users for years because of something called the dark web.
In Aden&aposs Beir Ahmed prison, where al-Anbari was held, hundreds of inmates were forced to undress and Emirati officers searched their anal cavities March 10, claiming to be looking for contraband cellphones.
Nadine Carroll was arrested on Thursday for smuggling contraband into jail after she allegedly mailed a narcotics-filled package to her daughter's Florida prison, the Monroe County, Florida, Sheriff's Office said in a statement.
A fight had broken out the night before between rival gangs over "territory, contraband and cellphones," Mr. Stirling said, and the priority now was to jam all illegal cellphones in the state's prison system.
Judge Patrick McGill ordered Mr. Sweat, 35, to pay $79,841 in restitution and serve three and a half to seven years in prison for the escape, and a similar consecutive sentence for prison contraband.
After antiquities leave the Islamic State's territory, experts say they fall into the hands of existing smuggling and criminal networks that are practiced at trafficking people, drugs or other contraband from Syria and Iraq.
In addition to being physically searched several times per day, each day there is a complete cell inspection to ensure that Watts is not hiding any contraband that would allow him to harm himself.
The European police organization recently seized more than 10,000 tonnes and one million litres of "hazardous fake food and drink" in what they are calling the biggest seizure of contraband food in their history.
Overall, guns are seized in less than 1 percent of all stops: 0.15 percent … Contraband, which may include weapons but also includes drugs or stolen property, is seized in 1.75 percent of all stops.
But he said such traffic is common enough for agents on the night shift from the Van Horn station to make it a regular part of their duties to check the culverts for contraband.
And yet, the opaqueness of maritime activity enables any vessel to easily transport not only arms and people, but also drugs, contraband, and even smuggled oil — all critical links in the terror-supply chain.
On January 6, the Cornwall Regional Task Force (CRTF) spotted people off-loading garbage bags full of "contraband" fine cut tobacco and cigars from a boat onto the shore of the St. Lawrence River.
If you're going to make a reading list, you might as well make one for prison, where smartphones are contraband and a disconcerting number of people really do need ways to pass the years.
His only defense against getting sick, she said, is the bottle of bleach he and other inmates are now given daily to disinfect their cells — a hot commodity since bleach is normally considered contraband.
President Xi Jinping, who has pledged to turn the country into an "ecological civilization," stepped up seizures of contraband animal products and created a new national park to provide a haven for Siberian tigers.
Officers regularly inventory and maintain inmates' property, search cells, and secure common areas in the unit, making sure these spaces are free of contraband that could pose a threat to prison staff or inmates.
In a statement, the Legal Aid Society also noted that inmates themselves might not be able to use the hand sanitizer because it could be considered contraband as a result of its alcohol content.
For a sensation of watching true contraband, find a theater showing "21983" on one of the original 29-millimeter prints, which were made using a process, bleach bypass, that yielded an almost monochromatic look.
The department said in a statement Thursday that it did not ban books, and that the program to limit the vendors was designed to stem the flow of drugs and other contraband into prisons.
Often located on foreign soil, many vendors who sell on these third-party marketplaces are now inundating American homes with counterfeits, pirated products and other contraband such as deadly fentanyl and other synthetic opioids.
"Prell introduced contraband into the prison by giving the inmate $100 cash, and the two engaged in an unlawful romantic relationship, which included kissing and fondling on at least three occasions," the report says.
Stirling took me on a tour of the Broad River Correctional Institution, a maximum security prison in Columbia, to show me the lengths to which his department is going to combat contraband cell phones.
There is at the very least anecdotal evidence that chronic understaffing, subpar living conditions, violence, gang activity, racial tension and the prevalence of drugs and contraband are the norms in many of our prisons.
For a sensation of watching true contraband, find a theater showing "1984" on one of the original 35-millimeter prints, which were made using a process, bleach bypass, that yielded an almost monochromatic look.
And at the height of election season in Mexico, contraband means mostly political campaign ads: Guards confiscated thousands of banners and posters, from every major political party in Mexico, in just a few weeks.
"We are still investigating, but we believe the syndicate involved has links with syndicates in Myanmar," Subromaniam said, adding that officials also seized a small amount of heroin and about 1 million contraband cigarettes.
The contraband we had failed to declare was two cartons of cigarettes, but less than a dozen cartons can land you three to six months in prison in Singapore, even for a first-time offense.
After the move prompted concern from inmates' families and prison reform advocates, the agency said on Thursday that the proposed restrictions had been part of efforts to curb contraband from entering the 122 federal prisons.
" Garcia Pereda knows from his experience in the Mexican government that there's one rule in dealing with illegal contraband: "If there's a market for it, there will always be those who will disobey the law.
The video recordings of meetings and calls between defense attorneys and clients at the privately run Leavenworth Detention Center were discovered during an investigation into possible contraband smuggling at the center involving inmates and guards.
Another source of concern is that southern Brazil, where some of the Arab community settled, is an area where weapons are one of many contraband products frequently smuggled across porous borders with Paraguay and Argentina.
While exercising a warrant in relation to White's mock shoot-out, police also arrested 23-year-old Terry Brown for "possession of drug paraphernalia, loitering and promoting prison contraband," according to local news source WHNT.
As far as we know, the guns and grenades were not meant for human consumption, but the seriousness of this arsenal gave Interpol, and us, a rare glimpse into the high stakes surrounding contraband food.
They had higher rates of assaults, inadequate medical checkups and compliance, eight times as many incidents of contraband cell-phone smuggling, and often housed new inmates in solitary confinement units, seemingly for lack of space.
Along with contraband-filled furniture inside the storage unit, authorities discovered similarly modified pieces of furniture inside a U-Haul truck as well as a Dodge Caravan outfitted with a secret compartment in the floor.
There are also limits on seizing cash or property worth less than $10,000, such as by requiring a warrant, an arrest, presence of contraband, an admission of guilt, or approval from a US attorney's office.
Although the region is well known for contraband commerce and as a center for Arab immigrants in the middle of the 20th century, rumored links between area merchants and Islamist militants have never been proven.
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The reach of some gangs has extended to correction officers, some of whom have been recruited to smuggle contraband into the jail for inmates in exchange for bribes or other benefits, law enforcement officials said.
The House speaker included several border security measures her party would support, including increased infrastructure investments at ports of entry, advanced technology to detect drugs and other contraband and increased customs personnel and immigration judges.
In an effort to stem the flow of drugs and weapons into Rikers, the mayor said, the Correction Department would install scanners similar to those used at airports that could detect metal and other contraband.
The study also found evidence of racial disparities in the rate of police stops and searches of African-Americans, even though officers were far less likely to find guns, drugs or other contraband on blacks.
It's worth noting that a wall won't stop the southbound flow of the US guns those criminals use to protect their contraband -- the US guns that send Central American families north as they flee violence.
The song recalls the little personal items and illegal contraband that Shelby and her mom and brother stowed away in their cramped apartment growing up—but it also speaks to a deeper set of feelings.
The California Department of Corrections is launching an ambitious new program to stop the inflow of contraband cell phones into the state's prison system — and the nation's largest prison phone company is paying for it.
The legal standard for whether a consent search is voluntary — and thus whether any contraband police discover is admissible in court — is whether a reasonable person would have felt free to refuse the officers' request.
That is why these convictions, even high-profile ones like Mr. Chumlong's, usually have little effect on shutting down illegal trade — in wildlife, drugs or any other kind of contraband, Dr. Felbab-Brown pointed out.
From this we learn three things: Even in his youth, Al was plain-spoken and blunt; he's a veteran at hustling contraband; and he's long-since figured out the system and his role in it.
In the exhibition, the post-Minimalist artist Lynda Benglis was meant to debut her work ''Contraband,'' a rainbow-colored pour of pigmented latex, alongside pieces by Richard Serra, Eva Hesse, Carl Andre and Rafael Ferrer.
Over those same years, the share of stops in which officers detained people to frisk them increased, as did the share in which officers used force, made arrests and seized guns and contraband, like drugs.
All of this might potentially make Botin less of a billionaire, but probably he'll be okay (according to Forbes, he has a net worth of $1.7 billion, his tarnished reputation as a contraband smuggler notwithstanding).
The Justice Department, with President Trump's support, will give new authority to law enforcement agencies to seize money, contraband and property when they can prove those assets are the ill-gotten gains of criminal activity.
The organization Contraband Ferments will make miso caramel popcorn (a tasty introduction to the process of fermentation), and Krista Jacobsen, a dairy scientist from Murray's Cheese, will teach how to create her company's signature product.
Security staff have also intermittently cracked down on the ability of parents to hold their children or hug a loved one during visits, under the guise of combatting the flow of contraband into the jails.
The Justice Department, with President Trump's support, will give new authority to law enforcement agencies to seize money, contraband and property when they can prove those assets are the ill-gotten gains of criminal activity.
He acknowledged that the potential presence of a loaded gun in the jail was "obviously a serious issue," but said that rooting out contraband did not justify the conditions that inmates were being subjected to.
Tourists must install a monitoring app on phones when entering the Xinjiang province that scans for Quran passages and other contraband information, and Reuters reported Thursday that China hacked telecoms to spy on Uighur travelers.
In contrast to other New Jersey jails that detain immigrants for ICE, the Bergen County Jail that Saudino presides over doesn't allow immigrants to have face-to-face visits with family, citing concerns about contraband.
The notorious Colombian crime syndicate had been using a variety of high-risk, low-reward methods to transport contraband, such as drug mules that had to be sent on commercial flights one at a time.
Customs officials claimed that their drug-sniffing dog indicated Doe was carrying drugs, and proceeded to make her strip naked, at which point they searched for the imaginary contraband inside of her anus and vagina.
Once, when a new shipment of contraband clothing arrived, she asked her tallest friends to wear the items through town to drum up excitement for the latest style — North Korea's grassroots answer to the fashion show.
West, specifically, said he was concerned about "stop and frisk" policies — practices that allow police to detain and search people for weapons and contraband at random — and how they affect relationships between between civilians and police.
Henriques said officials believed the disguise had been smuggled in by a pregnant woman, who are often used as mules to get contraband into prisons as they do not face as rigorous searches as other visitors.
Though gas cylinders are not allowed on the trains, the blaze is believed to have been begun when two contraband stoves exploded as passengers made breakfast, said Minister for Railways Sheikh Rashid Ahmed, according to Reuters.
Prosecutors in Palermo issued arrest warrants for 21 people — seven Tunisians, five Moroccans and an Italian woman — suspected of people smuggling and trafficking in contraband cigarettes, according to a copy of the document seen by Reuters.
Notorious drug-company fraudster Martin Shkreli has been removed from a federal prison in New Jersey after there were claims he was running his pharmaceuticals firm while locked up with the help of a contraband cellphone.
Victor Casado, from the Bronx, entered his not guilty plea to bribery, fraud, contraband smuggling and two conspiracy counts before U.S. District Judge Richard Sullivan, according to a spokeswoman for U.S. Attorney Geoffrey Berman in Manhattan.
"Drones are fairly quiet," Desmond said, pointing to one incident at Oklahoma State Penitentiary where the prison guards didn't know a drone was being utilized to drop off contraband until it crashed in the prison yard.
HONG KONG (Reuters) - Authorities in Hong Kong this week made their largest haul of contraband ivory in more than 30 years, amid surging illegal wildlife seizures fuelled by lax regulations and buoyant demand from mainland China.
The court further heard that the Jamaa brothers' syndicate paid off customs officials in order to safely smuggle large shipments of contraband into Australia, and carried out deals in the parking lot of an IKEA Warehouse.
Mexico's struggle with drug cartels and its chief adversary, Guzman, was a tapestry of corruption, violent deaths and billions of dollars in smuggled contraband - a business that put the kingpin onto the Forbes world's billionaires list.
Sent to work on a farm during the Cultural Revolution, he kept a contraband collection of classical-music records; in the 1990s, when he was a banker, he wrote a book about musicals on the side.
These days, I think the two countries are part of a free-trade area, so the cheese cartel has been put out of business (or at least has had to look for other lines of contraband).
In Colombia's northern desert region of La Guajira, which borders Venezuela, young children from both countries pick through rubbish dumps, work as street vendors and in salt mines, sell contraband petrol and beg on the streets.
The birds of prey learn to intercept small, off-the-shelf drones — unmanned aerial vehicles — of the type that can pose risks to aircraft, drop contraband into jails, conduct surveillance or fly dangerously over public events.
"We're seeing more of these low-profile vessels — 40-plus feet long ... it rides on the surface, multiple outboard engines, moves 18, 22 knots ... and they can carry large loads of contraband," Coast Guard commandant Adm.
Targeting the contraband entering at ports must also be paired with sophisticated crime-fighting strategies that stop the transnational cartels that rely on money-laundering operations to move funds in and out of the United States.
The amount of contraband recovered in prisons increased 74 percent from 2013 to 2017, with the amount that entered through the package room increasing 64 percent, according to Anthony J. Annucci, the corrections department's acting commissioner.
Marijuana arrests soared to more than 50,000 a year under Mayor Michael Bloomberg, when the police often stopped young men on questionable grounds and searched them for contraband, a practice a federal judge eventually found unconstitutional.
New York Police Department data clearly showed that most of the people being stopped and frisked were black or Latinx even though police found weapons and contraband on white residents more, as Vox's German Lopez explained.
That is the plan Virginia officials appear to be following for Monday: They have posted a map on Twitter and Facebook showing just one entrance to Richmond's Capitol Square, where attendees will be screened for contraband.
Since 2010, 27 employees have been accused of smuggling contraband into the jails, according to the D.O.I. "If you want to maintain safe, non-chaotic jails you have to check the correction officers," Mr. Peters said.
" Berman added, "There is at the very least anecdotal evidence that chronic understaffing, subpar living conditions, violence, gang activity, racial tension and the prevalence of drugs and contraband are the norms in many of our prisons.
But the pop-up edition of "A Charlie Brown Christmas" is prohibited (could hide contraband inside it), as is "The Color Purple," the 1983 novel that won the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award (incest).
The president met with Border Patrol agents who showed him contraband, including guns and drugs, that they said had been seized from legal ports of entry — which somewhat undermines the argument he came there to make.
The local authorities realize the region is badly in need of an economic engine, even if it's rooted in an unregulated, contraband industry and even if the government is incapable of capturing the gold trade's direct profits.
Johnson had also been charged with harboring escapees, providing contraband in prison and six counts of second-degree criminal sexual conduct — which included an accusation involving a second man — but those charges were dropped, according to prosecutors.

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