21.   In a separate case, a judge on Friday sentenced three police officers for selling seized heroin they were supposed to destroy.

22.   One North Korean worker was arrested two weeks ago on the outskirts of Vladivostok while selling heroin.

23.   They allegedly offered and sold heroin to a police informant under the watchful eyes of plainclothes officers.

24.   They said he was trying to sell the heroin, which was hidden inside a radio-cassette recorder.

25.   Hidden police cameras have videotaped children selling heroin in Ponticelli, an eastern suburb of Naples, police said Monday.