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In international law, contraband means goods that are ultimately destined for territory under the control of the enemy and may be susceptible for use in armed conflict. [6] Traditionally, contraband is classified into two categories, absolute contraband and conditional contraband.
Contraband was a term commonly used in the US military during the American Civil War to describe a new status for certain people who escaped slavery or those who affiliated with Union forces. In August 1861, the Union Army and the US Congress determined that the US would no longer return people who escaped slavery who went to Union lines, but ...
The existence of the Multi-Consignment Contraband (MCC) smuggling method (smuggling two or more different types of contraband such as drugs and illegal immigrants or drugs and guns at the same time) was verified following the completion of a study that found 16 documented cases of smugglers transporting more than one type of contraband in the ...
The doctrine only authorizes the seizure of contraband or evidence; it does not authorize a further search or additional investigation. [15] Therefore, if investigators do not have enough evidence to meet the probable cause requirement, they may not even conduct a relatively nonintrusive search to establish probable cause.
Two detention officers at the Oklahoma County jail have been fired after being accused of smuggling contraband in to inmates. The officers were arrested Wednesday, the jail said. Both live in ...
Contraband. Contraband was material banned from being taken down the mine, generally for safety reasons, such as matches and cigarettes. Miners were regularly checked for contraband. Corf or corve. A woven wood basket for carrying or transporting (called hurrying) coal to the surface. [14]
The back-to-back arrests of two guards at the Richland County jail has highlighted the ongoing struggle to contain contraband flowing into the troubled facility. It also highlights an even messier ...
Federal prosecutors have indicted 23 people, most of them current and former inmates, in what authorities said Wednesday were schemes to smuggle drugs and cellphones into Georgia state prisons ...