50,000 CONTRABAND WATCHES.Security staff at Las Americas International Airport confiscated con·fis·cate tr.v. con·fis·cat·ed, con·fis·cat·ing, con·fis·cates 1. To seize (private property) for the public treasury. 2. To seize by or as if by authority. See Synonyms at appropriate. adj. 51,000 contraband contraband, in international law, goods necessary or useful in the prosecution of war that a belligerent may lawfully seize from a neutral who is attempting to deliver them to the enemy. watches, reports DR1 Daily News (Oct. 30, 2001). Chief of security Col. Nelson Jose Florentino said the cargo arrived from Panama on a Copa airline flight in nine boxes that were found inside containers left on the plane. The authorities suspect the importers[superscript Any letter, digit or symbol that appears above the line. For example, 10 to the 9th power is written with the 9 in superscript (109). Contrast with subscript. one] plan was to wait for darkness to remove the boxes from the plane and take them over the airport fence. The cargo was consigned to a well-known distributor of watches and jewelry in Santo Domingo Santo Domingo, pueblo, United States Santo Domingo (sän'tə dəmĭng`gō), pueblo (1990 pop. 2,866), Sandoval co., N central N.Mex., on the Rio Grande; founded c.1700 after earlier pueblos were destroyed by floods. whose identity has not been revealed. Copyright 2001 |
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