1.   A box in a back room held more confiscated items, some, according to testimony, snatched without probable cause.

2.   Lott said smaller confiscated items are disposed of by local law enforcement officers in landfills.

3.   Gordon said investigators found that the list of confiscated items reported by the coast guard team did not include the cigarettes and liquor.

4.   It said the sellers and suppliers of the pirated items would be fined and that the confiscated items would be destroyed.

5.   Matralis said authorities would wait for instructions from the European Union on what to do with the confiscated items.

6.   North Korea has denied it made a massive weapons shipment through Hong Kong early this month, saying the confiscated items were really tools and machine parts.

7.   Other confiscated items included a pistol, a dagger with a Nazi emblem, swastika flags and military uniforms, he said.

8.   The confiscated items were given to churches and museums in the St. Petersburg area, the report said.

9.   Confiscated items are destroyed either by bulldozers or in furnaces of local cement plants.