CBP Chicago Continues Seizing Opium in 2010

(Thursday, January 21, 2010)
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Chicago — U.S. Customs and Border Protection K-9 officer working with his partner Rambo, seized more than 35 kilograms of opium saturated twigs and leaves at the Chicago O’Hare Foreign Mail Facility January 19 and January 20. While screening arriving international mail, K-9 Rambo alerted to the four separate shipments of opium that had been soaked and dried onto wooden twigs and packed in dried leaves.


The parcels, shipped from Laos and destined to the Minneapolis, Minn. area, was manifested with the description “Hmong Traditional Medicine Tea.â€