Hawaii, the USA. The events of the story are given not in chronological order.
Read five jumbled paragraphs and restore the article
9.4.1 Find the following words and collocations in your dictionary. They will
help you while reading this text:
law inforcement
“dirty money”
resident(n)
raid (n)
investigation (n)
9.4.2
significant (adj)
suspect (v)
ten-fold increase
wrap (v)
Text B
dismantle (v)
distribute (v)
squeeze(v)
black tar cocaine
location (n)
For Mexican drug ring in Hawaii, aloha means goodbye . . .
a. Operation Pipeline took off on Thanksgiving weekend 2000, and law
enforcement officials had already arrested 18 suspects - residents and Mexican
nationals in the country illegally - and deported a number of them before the final
raid on December 20, 2001.
b. In a dawn raid a few days before Christmas, Customs special agents in
Hawaii hit 10 different locations, arresting 16 individuals suspected of smuggling
and distributing black tar cocaine, and seizing significant amounts of "dirty
money," guns, and illegal narcotics - 20 pounds of black- tar heroin wrapped in
electrical tape, and squeezed in among yard plants in ordinary, everyday
containers.
c. Operation Pipeline was over. It had been a 13-month investigation, a
campaign that involved Customs, the FBI, the National Guard, the Internal
Revenue Service, the U.S. attorney, and all four county police departments. "We
have totally dismantled the organization," an official from the Hawaii Police
Department said. And that appears to have been no small feat.
d. About 20 pounds of heroin and the $160,000 seized during the raid
represent only part of the $2 million worth of heroin the drug ring distributed
during its four years of operation in Hawaii.
e. From 1997 to 2000, police statistics reported a ten-fold increase in the
number of people arrested for heroin possession. Law enforcement officials across
the Hawaii Islands say that heroin and crystal methamphetamine have clearly
overtaken cocaine and marijuana as the new "drugs of choice," and that some users
combine heroin and "ice" to counter the harsh reentry.
9.4.3 What do the following numbers mentioned in the text refer to?
20 $2mln 13 $160, 000 18 10
Grammar Assignments
9.5.1 Fill in each space in the following sentences with a verb given in
brackets in a suitable form:
1) If you (follow) the customs instructions and if you do not break any law, you
(enjoy) your trip abroad.
2) If you (carry) goods for commercial purpose, go to the channel indicated by the
red symbol.
3) If you (catch) with goods that are prohibited or restricted, or goods in excess of
your Customs allowances, you (risk) heavy fines and possibly a prison sentence.
4) You could pass through the green channel only if you (not have) any goods to
declare to Customs.
5) If you (carry) any commercial goods, or goods belonging to your employer,
such as laptop computers, you must declare them in the Red Channel.
9.5.2 Fill each space in the following text with one suitable verb from the
box:
working loaded seized discovered was arrested alerted to appeared
weighting
U.S. Customs Service inspectors ... at the Otay Mesa port of entry on Friday
evening ... over three tons of marijuana from a tractor-trailer truck ... with a cargo
of furniture. The seizure was made at around 6p.m. on July 19, after inspectors
noticed that the driver ... extremely nervous. During a secondary examination, a
Customs narcotics detector dog ... to the trailer and its load of sofas. Inspectors ... a
false front wall behind which were 2.125 wrapped packages of marijuana... 7,513
pounds and valued at $3,4 million. The 25-year-old driver ... by U.S. Customs
special agents and subsequently transported to the Metropolitan Correctional
Centre.
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