OPIUM SEIZED IN RECORD DRUG BUST.Byline: Daily News GLENDALE -- A 35-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of transporting opium opium, substance derived by collecting and drying the milky juice in the unripe seed pods of the opium poppy, Papaver somniferum. Opium varies in color from yellow to dark brown and has a characteristic odor and a bitter taste. and police seized about 12 pounds of the narcotic narcotic, any of a number of substances that have a depressant effect on the nervous system. The chief narcotic drugs are opium, its constituents morphine and codeine, and the morphine derivative heroin. See also drug addiction and drug abuse. worth about $500,000 -- the largest opium seizure in the history of the Glendale. Ebrahim Kalatehe of Glendale is behind bars in lieu of $30,000 bail. He is scheduled to be arraigned Monday, said John Balian, Glendale Police Department spokesman. K-9 Officer Maribel Sumner conducted a traffic violation stop at 10 p.m. Thursday in the 1100 block of Thompson Avenue. During the course of the investigation, she discovered a small amount of opium in Kalatehe's pocket. A search of his vehicle with the aid of newly acquired K9 Yudy, a German shepherd German shepherd, breed of large, muscular working dog perfected in Germany at the turn of the 20th cent. It stands about 25 in. (64 cm) high at the shoulder and weighs from 60 to 85 lb (27.2–38.5 kg). who is cross-trained to detect narcotics narcotics n. 1) techinically, drugs which dull the senses. 2) a popular generic term for drugs which cannot be legally possessed, sold, or transported except for medicinal uses for which a physician or dentist's prescription is required. as well as individuals, resulted in the seizure of 12 pounds of opium inside a box of a brown Ford van. ``It was a great police work by Officer Sumner and canine canine or canid Any domestic or wild dog or doglike mammal (e.g., wolf, jackal, fox) in the family Canidae, found throughout the world except in Antarctica and on most ocean islands. Yudy,'' said Balian, adding that the K-9 Unit was reinstated in 2005 following a years- long absence. ``It shows how important it is to have canine units in our police department not only to apprehend suspects, but assist officers in doing good police work in locating narcotics.'' |
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