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Customs: Cocaine in soccer balls at Newark Liberty airport

(AP) - Customs officers at New Jersey's NewarkLiberty Airport say they seized some unusually heavy soccer ballsfrom a Peruvian man's luggage. It turns out the four deflated balls contained a substance

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Dec 28, 2011, 7:24 AM

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