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Federal authorities
are charging two Canadian men with trying to smuggle $1.5 million in
Ecstasy across the border at the Massena port of entry.
U.S. Customs and
Border Protection officers arrested 53-year-old Mitchell David and
50-year-old Silas Benedict Wednesday night after finding 50,000
Ecstasy star-shaped tablets stuffed inside a spare tire in plastic
sandwich bags.
The two men, of
Cornwall Island, were charged with importation and possession with
the intent to distribute a controlled substance.
Federal prosecutors
in Syracuse are handling the case. Officials said the men did not
yet have attorneys.
-AP wire reports, 7-3-09 |