contraband 復習

米国ノースカロライナの高校生がリュックの中に刃物などの危険物やターゲットのリストを所持していたとして逮捕されました。

Police arrest NC student armed with weapons, hit list

A North Carolina high school student was arrested Tuesday in connection with a backpack police found containing several dangerous contraband items including knives, as well as a "hit list," authorities said.

A Union County Sheriff's deputy assigned as a School Resource Officer at the Forest Hills High School in Union County, North Carolina, found several knives, a bottle of flammable liquid, fireworks, a dismantled shotgun shell and a "hit list" inside the book bag of a student there, the Union County Sheriff's Office in North Carolina said in a statement Tuesday.

Police said the list contained names of multiple individuals and that the school is in the process of notifying everyone identified on the list.

The suspect, whose identity is being withheld because they are under the age of 16, is facing criminal charges, according to police.

http://abcnews.go.com/US/authorities-arrest-nc-student-armed-weapons-hit-list/story?id=47315845

取り上げる単語は"contraband"です。『ジーニアス英和辞典』第4版(大修館)で調べてみると、「密輸、密売買、不法取引、密輸品」とあり、また、アメリカの歴史上では、「(南北戦争中)北軍へ逃げた黒人奴隷」という意味もあることが分かりました。

LDOCEでは、"goods that are brought into a country illegally, especially to avoid tax"と定義されていました。

リュックの中からは、密輸品なども入っていたとのことです。今回逮捕された高校生は、未成年であるため、名前は公表されていません。(Akim)

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