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This week in crime, U.S. federal agents arrest four people in an operation to bust a drug smuggling ring that had tunneled under the U.S-Mexico border, and gunfire erupts during an armed robbery attempt at a Pennsylvania turnpike. Jillian Kitchener reports.
The Spanish police discovered a haul of nearly 40 pounds of cocaine, potentially worth half a million dollars, inside of fake bananas hidden in a shipment of real bananas during an operation in the coastal cities of Malaga and Valencia on Sunday. Footage of the haul was shot in Valencia. No, we're not monkeying around. Some 57 artificial bananas, carrying about 15 pounds cocaine, were found among the real bananas by police. Another 22 pounds of cocaine were reportedly hidden inside the cardboard boxes that carried the bananas. Following the operation, two people were detained on charges of drug trafficking. According to the police, a third person is presently under investigation.
Two paintings by Vincent Van Gogh were recovered by anti-Mafia police in Naples last week, nearly 14 years after they were stolen from a museum in Amsterdam. Footage from the Italian Guardia di Finanza shows the discovery of the paintings after they were hidden in one of the houses of an international drug trafficker in Castellammare di Stabia, near Naples during a sting operation targeting organised crime. In 2002, the paintings were stolen from the Van Gogh museum in Amsterdam, after thieves used a ladder and sledgehammer to break into the building. The works were valued at €89 million, or about $100 million, at the time. The masterpieces - View of the Sea at Scheveningen (1882) and Congregation Leaving the Reformed Church in Nuene (1884) - were painted early in the artists's career.
Former House Speaker Dennis Hastert goes to jail for paying hush money to an abuse victim, a Pennsylvania congressman is convicted of corruption, and NYPD commanders are booked for taking bribes. Ashraf Fahim reports.
A minister draws a gun at the U.S. Capitol, a baby is snatched from a food court and a Virginia state trooper is killed at a bus station -- leading the week's crime stories. Diane Hodges reports.
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