opium

The 30 porcelain cats contained a total of 205 pounds of raw opium, U.S. Customs and Border Protection said Thursday. -- Authorities in New York seized more than $9 million worth of opium hidden inside a shipment of porcelain figurines last month at John F. Kennedy International Airport, U.S...

Toronto police say they've busted a sophisticated criminal organization that was smuggling opium into Canada inside cans of pickled cucumbers. The operation was called Project Khiar — which means cucumber in Farsi. "As far as we're concerned, this is a very sophisticated criminal organization...