A federal drug-sniffing dog is being lauded for his role in hunting out more than 35 kilograms of opium-saturated twigs and leaves that arrived at O'Hare International Airport earlier this week from Laos, officials said today.
Rambo, working with his partner, a U.S. Customs and Border Protection K-9 officer, found four shipments of opium that had been soaked and dried onto wooden twigs and packed in dried leaves, according to a news release issued by the customs officials.
"The efforts put forth by the [customs and border protection] K-9 officers and their partners continue to produce impressive results this year," said David J. Murphy, director of field operations in Chicago. "These K-9 officers work daily with their partners to discover prohibited items and prevent contraband from entering the United States."
The drugs were sniffed out at the Chicago O'Hare foreign mail facility on Tuesday and Wednesday, officials said. The packages had been shipped from Laos and were slated to end up in the Minneapolis area. The contents of the packages were listed in a manifest as containing "Hmong Traditional Medicine Tea."
The officials found 273 plastic bags containing the twigs and leaves. Officials said the twigs appeared to be saturated with a substance that gave out a distinctive odor. The contents of the bags later tested positive for opiates.
While this discovery is the first in 2010 for Rambo, last year Rambo sniffed out more than 195 kilograms of drugs. The majority of the shipments originated in Laos and were to end up in various homes in Minnesota and Wisconsin, officials said.
the custom officers at the post office should be taught or trained to sniff drug smells or odors or otherwise they should create a machine to detect the drugs 's odors..hehe ! but all in all I think that the sender of opium to the US is surely more clever than the drug or custom officers in VT by his wise manner to making a fake hmong traditional medicine and able to lure the custom and post office officers and if he had been arrested in laos ... beware, the hmong community in minesota and international media might claim that we are oppressing the minority ethnic hmong people. HAHA !
It seems Hmong people are normally a drug dealer in Laos. Why are they doing that ? Anyone does not want to do bad things right. I think because they don't have any jobs or any chance to live their life in LAOS. That's why they sell drug for money to survive.
Is there the discrimination toward Hmong people in Laos ?
-- Edited by narongchai_thi on Monday 25th of January 2010 02:02:51 AM
We have to excepting the true that Hmong is one of the Laos population. Hmong ie people like all of you in here. Hmong is not all bad same as normal Lao Lanxang tribe. In Laos society have Good and Bad people. \ Why do they have to sell drugs? It's very easy answer : It because of the Money, money can pay them food & housing maintainance. If there is no opputunity for them to have a properjob in their professional so they don't have other choice to work as most of Lao Lanxang always think that Hmong is the 3rd class Lao population and don't train them how to live or how to do the proper argriculture?
We have to change our notion and noted that Hmong in Laos is Lao people and should get the same Right as you guys here. If you are anti-them that mean you are look down on thier race. You always complains and think that Thai people look down on Lao race as a low class people but look at you today, you are not different from some of the those Thai people who look down on other race.
Laos is the Buddhist land and land of the kindness people. I wish it wont change to be Land of the Kindless or heartless one day.
-- Edited by lao-girl on Monday 25th of January 2010 03:29:32 AM
Oh common ! no one look down on hmong people in Laos , as you probably know that hmong are not stupid, in the contrary, they are clever for instance : my trainer in economic study is a hmong woman, doctor in economy ... a hmong boy playing lead guitar with an unusual manner that I thought it was a sound from CD player...and also great in commerce : try to bagain the broom seller and you will see that he wouldn't drop a cent the price of his broom and in the vice versa, try to sell something to a hmong woman, you'll find in front of you a hard bagainer that you some time lose your temper HAHAHA !
We have to excepting the true that Hmong is one of the Laos population. Hmong ie people like all of you in here. Hmong is not all bad same as normal Lao Lanxang tribe. In Laos society have Good and Bad people. \ Why do they have to sell drugs? It's very easy answer : It because of the Money, money can pay them food & housing maintainance. If there is no opputunity for them to have a properjob in their professional so they don't have other choice to work as most of Lao Lanxang always think that Hmong is the 3rd class Lao population and don't train them how to live or how to do the proper argriculture?
We have to change our notion and noted that Hmong in Laos is Lao people and should get the same Right as you guys here. If you are anti-them that mean you are look down on thier race. You always complains and think that Thai people look down on Lao race as a low class people but look at you today, you are not different from some of the those Thai people who look down on other race.
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Hmongs in America don't say and think they are a part of Lao people. I never see them respect Thaat Luang, Hoe Phra Kaev, etc.... If I have a choice to sell drug for a living, I'd do, maybe everyone else too.
-- Edited by Laos2beLaos on Monday 25th of January 2010 10:49:26 AM
Hmong in America don't say and think they are Lao. They never respect That Luang, Hoe Phra Kaew, etc..
You are wrong when the Hmong wants something from the US government help programs always uses in the Lao's name and also every time Hmong were arrested from any crimes from domestic to violent and opium , the news does not say Hmong , they said Laotian or people from Laos. If the Hmong became top graduated and receive award or top business man or successful , they always called them self Hmong and never mention Lao.
-- Edited by Dark Angel on Monday 25th of January 2010 10:58:06 AM
This is not the first time that packages with drugs from Laos heading to MN or WI. I remember reading something last year, a coffin filled with opium was send to the Hmong family in MN. The FBI and AFT raided the house and arrested few residents.
We have to excepting the true that Hmong is one of the Laos population. Hmong ie people like all of you in here. Hmong is not all bad same as normal Lao Lanxang tribe. In Laos society have Good and Bad people. \ Why do they have to sell drugs? It's very easy answer : It because of the Money, money can pay them food & housing maintainance. If there is no opputunity for them to have a properjob in their professional so they don't have other choice to work as most of Lao Lanxang always think that Hmong is the 3rd class Lao population and don't train them how to live or how to do the proper argriculture?
We have to change our notion and noted that Hmong in Laos is Lao people and should get the same Right as you guys here. If you are anti-them that mean you are look down on thier race. You always complains and think that Thai people look down on Lao race as a low class people but look at you today, you are not different from some of the those Thai people who look down on other race.
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Hmongs in America don't say and think they are a part of Lao people. I never see them respect Thaat Luang, Hoe Phra Kaev, etc.... If I have a choice to sell drug for a living, I'd do, maybe everyone else too.
-- Edited by Laos2beLaos on Monday 25th of January 2010 10:49:26 AM
You must understand that Hmong and other hilltribes are believing as Christian not Buddhism like us. That's why they don't believe in That Luang or any Buddhist temples in Laos
right, this is not their fault, we are free to believe in any religion we like so do hmong and other ethnics but as I know, they mostly believe in satsana Phii of their ancesters like thay daeng, thay dam... but christians ? very few !
i agree this lao hmong issue is very confusing, i guess we can all agree it based upon ones own experience.
from my experience yess laos people try to consider hmong as part of laos. but the hmong do not consider them laos? i also see that hmong like to now display similar traditions such as dance, food, stories that are from what my child hood memories could conjur are Laos, yet i see video claiming that they are hmong tradition.
and again they still do not want to claim lao?
yet it is obvious that they are practicing lao traditions that is why some consider hmong as part of laos.
yet the party practicing our traditions will say they are not laos?
