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...saying the device was for personal use and was not a computer hard drive or a radio.According to the trip reports, customs officials wanted to charge a 100 percent tax on the value of the item, but Gross bargained them down and was allowed to leave...
...first at Marie Drake Middle School and then for 27 years at Juneau-Douglas High School. In 1982, Koelsch was selected as Alaska's Teacher of the Year. After retiring as a teacher, Koelsch became a full-time customs official.
...Kraft. Despite the familiarity, Kraft says things have changed at the lonely border crossing staffed by Canadian customs officials since the Sept. 11 attacks. "Since 9-11 here, every time I go across the border they take their flashlight...
...Territories is on a whirlwind tour of Alaska. The group met with Alaska legislators, chambers of commerce members and customs officials in Juneau, before traveling on to Anchorage Monday evening. Stops also were scheduled in Barrow and Nome. The...
...third country such as Costa Rica, Mexico or Canada." To avoid complications reentering the United States, Cuban customs officials do not stamp American passports with a Cuban visa. Instead they stapled a visa into Wallace's passport and took...
...book had been seized but said it was because the book had not been submitted for approval in advance as required. Customs officials did not immediately return requests for comment. Books that contain religious content, maps or works of journalism...
...Arizona. He also marketed counterfeit limited-edition signed prints of Apollo astronauts in Canada. Canadian customs officials blocked his entry at the Saskatchewan border, but he found his way in through the back door  Alaska, police said...
...of six shipments of smuggled or possibly "blood diamonds" worth more than $420,000 that were confiscated by customs officials in Anchorage since mid-May. Blood, or "conflict," diamonds are uncut stones mined in a war zone and sold to...
...Plains. Mercer is one of the army of volunteers who have cared for these animals since Halloween night, when U.S. Customs officials discovered them crammed into a reeking truck trailer at the nearby Canadian border crossing, soaked in urine and...
...contact with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police explosives disposal unit that tested the device on Wednesday. Canadian customs officials found the grenade in the glove compartment of a 28-year-old woman's Ford Explorer as she crossed the border...