Smuggled Cell Phones

A cat detained at Sri Lanka's main prison while allegedly trying to smuggle drugs and cell phone SIM cards has escaped, media reports said Monday.

Twenty-seven kgs of gold concealed in cell phones was seized by officials of the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence from the cargo of a private airliner today.

They've been finding hidden bombs, drugs and corpses for years, using their sense of smell to locate what their human handlers would otherwise have to see in plain sight.Now dogs are being deployed in prisons to help curb one of the most serious problems confronting corrections officials: smuggled cell phones.It turns out that cell phones smell. An...

A cat detained at Sri Lanka's main prison while allegedly trying to smuggle drugs and cell phone SIM cards has escaped, media reports said Monday.

Twenty-seven kgs of gold concealed in cell phones was seized by officials of the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence from the cargo of a private airliner today.

They've been finding hidden bombs, drugs and corpses for years, using their sense of smell to locate what their human handlers would otherwise have to see in plain sight.Now dogs are being deployed in prisons to help curb one of the most serious problems confronting corrections officials: smuggled cell phones.It turns out that cell phones smell. An...