6 Held in Smuggling of Heroin in Thai Statues
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NEW YORK — Federal agents arrested six people on drug charges, accusing three of them of leading a distribution ring that smuggled $165 million in heroin into the country in terra cotta statues, officials said Sunday.
On Feb. 5, Customs officials at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport found 165 pounds of heroin during a routine inspection of statues flown in from Thailand. Drug Enforcement Administration agents put the shipment under surveillance and apprehended the six Saturday after the statues were trucked to a house in Queens.
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