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In this clip, Vlad asked Boosie about his comments on Tekashi 6ix9ine being beaten inside of a gym. Boosie explained that he thought the situation was hilarious, and he stated that “there’s no rewards for the real.” Boosie added that he would love to give the guys behind the attack $1,000- which he left with Vlad after it was revealed that Vlad knows someone with direct contact to one of the men. Boosie then clarified that it has nothing to do with Tekashi.
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CNN - Arizona authorities targeting the Sinaloa drug cartel have seized narcotics estimated to be worth more than $13 million, including more than 4.5 million fentanyl pills, 3,100 pounds of methamphetamine & large quantities of heroin, cocaine & fentanyl powder, according to the Drug Enforcement Administration.
The agency said the seizure was the culmination of a 3-year-long investigation during which 150 people had so far been charged.
“The fentanyl seized represents more than 30 million potentially lethal doses,” the DEA said.
Authorities displayed some of the recovered narcotics at a joint news conference Thursday.
“The sample you see here today is staggering. There are over 4.5 million fentanyl pills, over 140 pounds of fentanyl powder, over 135 kilos of cocaine, over 3,000 pounds of methamphetamine, 35 kilos of heroin, 49 firearms & over $2 million in cash,” Interim Tempe Police Chief Josie Montenegro said.
According to authorities, “numerous” people were taken into custody in the bust.
Phoenix DEA Special Agent in Charge Cheri Oz said investigators are “laser-focused” on the Sinaloa cartel.
“I want to be crystal clear, the drugs in this room & the drugs that are flooding Arizona every single day are sourced primarily by one evil as the Sinaloa drug cartel,” she said. “We are laser-focused on them & we will defeat them. We will not stop.”
The country is struggling with a decades-long opioid epidemic in which fentanyl has become the most commonly used drug involved in overdoses.
Deaths involving synthetic opioids increased by 22% in 2021, according to CDC data, & in 2022, there were about 181,806 nonfatal opioid overdoses recorded in the U.S.
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Blanca Arellano traveled 3,000 miles to finally meet her online boyfriend after sustaining a long-distance relationship for months. What was supposed to be a romantic first meeting quickly turned into a gruesome tragedy as the woman was murdered, decapitated & her body was dismembered by the killer who harvested her organs.
For months, Mexican citizen Arellano had an online relationship with Juan Pablo Jesús Villafuerte from Peru. The couple reportedly struck up a relationship through online video game groups during the pandemic. In July, 51-year-old Arellano finally decided to meet 37-year-old Villafuerte in person & traveled 3,000 miles to Peru.
Arellano's family believed that “their relationship was going very well,” according to her niece Karla Arellano. However, all communications between Arellano & her family back home in Mexico completely stopped on Nov. 7.
The family contacted Villafuerte – who is a medical student.
“He argues that on Sunday my aunt decided to return to Mexico,” Arellano's niece wrote on Twitter. “They were in Huacho & she left for Lima by her own means to later go to Mexico but that has not happened.”
On Nov. 9, a local fisherman discovered a faceless head floating in the waters of the port town of Huacho, Peru. A human arm, a finger & a torso missing organs were also reportedly found.
On Nov. 17, Villafuerte was arrested & is suspected of harvesting Arellano's organs.
Peru General Attorney Zoraida Ávalos said in a statement, "Juan Pablo Villafuerte was arrested on charges of human organs trafficking."
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WPRI) — U.S. Attorney for Rhode Island Zachary Cunha announced Monday the seizure of more than 660,000 counterfeit pills containing methamphetamine.
Dylan Rodas, 27, of Cumberland, was arrested & charged in the case, which authorities believe is the single biggest seizure of fake Adderall pills in the country.
Rodas is charged with possession with intent to distribute 500 grams or more of methamphetamine.
The seizure was the result of an ongoing, months-long investigation, according to Cunha. The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) conducted searches at 2 locations in Cumberland where they seized approximately 660,500 fake Adderall pills, or 660 pounds & a bucket of 40 pounds of methamphetamine mixture.
“That’s roughly the weight of a V8 car engine or a baby grand piano,” Cunha noted.
The pills have an estimated street value of $4.6 million, authorities said.
Around 1,000 pills contained fentanyl. Authorities also recovered 11 kilograms of methamphetamine powder, 250 grams of crack cocaine, $15,000 in cash & 7 handguns, including 2 ghost guns & 2 guns with obliterated serial numbers.
Rodas has agreed to plead guilty. If the court accepts the deal, he will serve at least 10 years in federal prison.
The bust represents the threat the opioid epidemic poses on the region.
“It is no secret that Rhode Island & New England at large is suffering from an epidemic of opioid abuse & opioid deaths that continues to run into record numbers,” Cunha said.
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Kodak Black is lending a major hand to Haitians cut off from food and water -- due to extreme gang violence -- by sending more than 35,000 bottles of H2O.
Kodak heard about the Caribbean nation's crisis, and decided to do something to help the situation -- dropping $50k to get tons of bottled water shipped there from Florida ... according to the rapper's attorney, Bradford Cohen.
We're told Kodak is using cargo ships to send over alkaline water, and the labels on the bottles read "LAST" because Kodak wants this to be the last time anyone in Haiti goes without water.
Once the shipment reaches Haiti ... Kodak and his team are working with Haitian government officials to ensure the bottles get to their intended destinations.
Cohen says Kodak is calling for a ceasefire in the rising gang violence that's turning Haiti into a war zone ... and the water donation is just his latest step in an ongoing effort to help the island.
In addition to making sure Haitians don't go thirsty, we're told Kodak previously donated to orphanages and food banks on the island to get folks health care.
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A company owned by rapper Rick Ross' family has been fined for labor violations at 5 of its Wingstop locations in Mississippi, the U.S. Department of Labor announced Wednesday.
Boss Wings Enterprises LLC made employees pay for their uniforms, safety trainings, background checks & cash register shortages, causing some employees' hourly wages to fall below the $7.25 federal minimum wage.
The franchisee also violated child labor regulations when it allowed a 15-year-old to work past 10 p.m. in June 2021 several times, flouting standards prohibiting 14 & 15-year-olds from working past 7 p.m. from from June 1 to Labor Day.
The Department of Labor recovered $51,674 in back wages for 244 workers & $62,753 in civil money penalties from Boss Wings Enterprises LLC.
“Restaurant industry employees work hard, often for low wages & many depend on every dollar earned to make ends meet,” said Wage & Hour Division District Director Audrey Hall in Jackson, Mississippi. “The law prevents Boss Wing Enterprises LLC from shifting operating costs to workers.”
Tawanda Roberts, the rapper’s older sister, is listed in business records as the principal of Boss Wings Enterprises.
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SAN DIEGO (ABC7 Chicago) More than 5,000 pounds of methamphetamine were seized this week after authorities in San Diego County tracked and intercepted a truck that crossed the US border from Mexico, officials said Friday.
Four men from Tijuana, Mexico, were arrested & charged with conspiracy to distribute the highly addictive drug in what officials described as one of the largest meth busts in San Diego County.
"This monumental seizure represents another win against drug cartels that fuel addiction in the United States," said Shelly S. Howe, a Special Agent in Charge at the US Drug Enforcement Administration.
The 20-foot commercial truck, which was carrying 148 meth bundles, crossed the border Thursday through the Otay Mesa Commercial Port of Entry in San Diego, the US Attorney's Office said in a statement.
Law enforcement followed the vehicle to National City, California, where agents saw the accused men unloading dozens of cardboard boxes from the truck into a Dodge van. The bundles found in the boxes tested positive for methamphetamine.
In April, US Customs and Border Protection officers in California seized more than 400 pounds of meth, cocaine & heroin concealed in toolboxes that were being transported to the country. That seizure carried an estimated street value of $2.56 million, CBP said.
Meth is a highly addictive stimulant that usually takes the form of a powder. In 2020, more than 23,000 Americans died from overdoses involving psychostimulants, primarily meth, according to the US Center for Disease Control and Prevention.
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DETROIT (ClickOnDetroit) – Officials said they found 18 guns at the home of a Detroit man who was making $2,000 per day by running a marijuana vending machine outside the house.
On Jan. 7, officials with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives received an anonymous tip that a person named Marcellus Cornwell was operating a vending machine on the side of his house & using it to sell marijuana & pills, according to a criminal complaint filed last week.
The tip also claimed Cornwell had numerous firearms & was selling drugs & firearms to minors.
Cornwell is either 42 or 43 years old & lives on Mettetal Street on Detroit’s west side.
He has a criminal history that includes convictions in 1997 for armed robbery & felony firearm, in 2008 for carrying a concealed weapon, in 2009 for felon in possession of a firearm & felony firearm & in 2011 for 3 counts of identity theft.
Officials said Cornwell was sentenced to more than 1 year in prison for each of those convictions.
Cornwell said he had lived at the home on Mettetal Street his entire life. He said he has owned & operated the marijuana vending machine for 4 years, making about $2,000 per day.
Cornwell told officials that there was about $7,000 cash in the safe in his bedroom. An unknown amount of cash was found on Cornwell’s nightstand & about $5,700 was found in a bag in the dining room.
Cornwell told officials multiple times that he makes the majority of his money from the marijuana vending machine.
He said he obtained or bought most of the firearms from people off the street.
The criminal complaint concludes that there’s probable cause to charge Cornwell with felon in possession of a firearm.
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A Florida man was sentenced to life in prison on Friday for hiring one of his friends as a hitman to kill his pregnant wife in order to collect on her life insurance policy during the summer of 2017.
Euri Jenkins, 35, was convicted by Palm Beach County jurors of murder in the first degree over the murder-for-hire plot that took the life of 33-year-old Makeva Jenkins.
“This has been a long struggle for me & what has happened to my daughter has affected my life & the life of my family,” the victims’ grandmother, Glora Harold, told the court before addressing the killer and the outcome of the proceedings. “I have nothing bad to say about him. All I wanted was justice for my child. Nobody wins in the case.”
On June 29, 2017, gunman Joevan Joseph, 24, broke into the couple’s Lantana, Fla. home. Wearing a mask, he shot the mother of 3 in the head while she slept. Joseph was 1 of 3 men arrested in connection with the doubly deficient scheme to reward murder.
The violence would all be for naught. The 3 men were, of course, unsuccessful in covering up their crime after the fact. Euri Jenkins would only later learn, in the weeks after his wife’s murder, that he was not listed as a beneficiary on her $500,000 life insurance policy.
The third man, Dametri Dale, 23, began the state’s case against the defendant by testifying that he arranged the meeting between the since-convicted husband and the man who carried out the plot. Dale previously agreed to a plea deal on charges of murder in the second degree as a cooperating witness. He received 15 years probation for his efforts after turning himself in last month.
Joseph’s sentencing hearing was postponed until after his testimony in Euri Jenkins’ murder trial. The shooter faces a minimum or 5 & a maximum of 20 years behind bars. He also previously pleaded guilty to murder in the second degree for his role in the killing.
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RANDOLPH COUNTY, N.C. (WGHP) — Deputies seized pounds of fentanyl after a drug investigation in North Carolina that was enough to kill 390,000 people.
According to deputies, they executed a search warrant at the home of Donald Robert Lynch on Spencer Road in Archdale. Detectives sized “a trafficking amount” of fentanyl & methamphetamine, bath salts & steroids. Six firearms & drug paraphernalia were also seized.
After the search of the Archdale home, the Chatham County Sheriff’s Office assisted in a search warrant at a business in Bennett, North Carolina believed to be operated by Lynch.
783.9 grams of Fentanyl and 367 grams of methamphetamine were found. That’s 1.7 pounds of fentanyl & almost a pound of meth.
The DEA says that as little as 2 milligrams of fentanyl can be a lethal dose. 783.9 grams is equal to 783,900 milligrams, which could become 390,000 lethal doses of Fentanyl.
Lynch was charged by Randolph County Sheriff’s Office with
**Felony possession of firearm by felon
**Two counts of felony trafficking in heroin
**Felony trafficking in methamphetamine
**Two counts of felony possession with intent to manufacture/sell/deliver schedule II
**Felony possession with intent to sell/deliver schedule VI
**Misdemeanor maintaining a vehicle/dwelling/place for controlled substance
**Misdemeanor simple possession schedule III
**Misdemeanor possession drug paraphernalia.
He was transported to Randolph County Detention Center & given a $150,000 secured bond plus Electronic House Arrest.
Lynch was charged by Chatham County Sheriff’s Office with
**Felony trafficking in heroin
**Felony possession schedule I
**Felony possession with intent to manufacture/sell/deliver schedule I
**Felony maintaining a vehicle/dwelling/place for controlled substance
**Misdemeanor possession drug paraphernalia
He received an additional $15,000 secured bond.
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Houston rapper Sauce Walka recently sat down with Say Cheese TV to chop it up about a variety of topics, including his mom being a stripper, evolving his hustle and more.
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A Texas woman was arrested after a bizarre encounter inside a Walmart store where she is accused of offering another shopper $500,000 to buy the woman’s baby.
Rebecca Taylor, 49, was charged with sale or purchase of a child & was released from the Houston County Sheriff’s Office on a $50,000 bond.
The alleged incident occurred at a store in Crockett, Texas, which is near Houston. The two women were reportedly on the self-checkout line last week. The mother — who was with her baby and 1-year-old — told police that the woman commented on her son’s blond hair & blue eyes & asked how much he costs.
The report said the mother laughed off the comment, but the woman allegedly said she had $250,000 in her car. The mom claimed another woman was with Taylor at one point. The mother said she alerted authorities.
The mother waited for the 2 women to leave the store, but they allegedly waited in the parking lot & screamed at her that the offer was now $500,000. The women eventually left.
Police said in the affidavit they watched video from the scene & it appeared to match the mother’s claim.
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Former drug kingpin Freeway Ricky Ross recently sat down with Donnie Houston TV to talk about his journey from stealing cars to making $100,000 a day selling cocaine.
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RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Tens of thousands of North Carolina residents convicted of felonies but whose current punishments don’t include prison time can register to vote & cast ballots, a judicial panel declared Monday.
Several civil rights groups & ex-offenders who sued legislative leaders & state officials in 2019 argue the current 1973 law is unconstitutional by denying the right vote to people who have completed their active sentences or received no such sentence, such as people on probation. They said the rules disproportionately affect Black residents & originated from an era of white supremacy in the 19th century.
In a brief hearing following a trial last week challenging the state’s voting restrictions upon felons, Superior Court Judge Lisa Bell said two judges on the three-judge panel have agreed they would issue a formal order soon allowing more felony offenders to register. The judges are acting before issuing a final trial ruling, as voting in October municipal elections begins next month.
Roughly 56,000 more people would now be allowed to vote, based on estimates. One lawyer said it represents the largest expansion of North Carolina voting rights since the 1960s.
“When I heard the ruling, I wanted to run in the street & tell everybody that now you have a voice,” said Diana Powell with Justice Served NC, a Raleigh-based community group that sued. “I am so excited for this historic day.”
Current law says felons can register to vote once they complete all aspects of their sentence, including probation & parole. With the upcoming order, felons who only must complete these punishments that have no element of incarceration can register. The decision also would apply to people convicted of a federal felony but whose current punishment is probation.
A lawyer for House Speaker Tim Moore, who is a defendant along with Senate leader Phil Berger & the State Board of Elections, said an appeal to block the panel’s preliminary injunction will be filed.
Moore attorney Sam Hayes called Monday’s decision an “absurd ruling that flies in the face of our constitution & further casts doubt on election integrity in North Carolina.”
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A Virginia teenager showed her estranged father the meaning of good "cents" and maturity.
Avery Sanford hadn’t seen her dad in years when he dropped off his final child support payment last month — dumping 80,000 pennies on his ex-wife’s lawn, according to WTVR, the CBS affiliate in Richmond.
"I just turned 18. When I was in the middle of class, my dad came by. He had rented a trailer," Sanford told the outlet.
Her penny-hoarding dad "pulled up in front of the house and turned the trailer on so it dumped out all the pennies on the grass," she recalled.
"And my mom came out and was like, ‘What are you dumping in my yard?’ She didn’t know who it was until he shouted, ‘It’s your final child support payment."
Instead of getting mad, the high school senior decided to set aside the copper delivery for charity, according to the report.
The family picked up every penny and plans to donate all $800 to Safe Harbor, a domestic abuse center.
"It’s not just my mom he’s trying to embarrass, it’s also me and my sister and it’s upsetting that he didn’t consider that before he did that," the teen told the station.
"Turning around and donating that money to moms and children in need, I feel like that really turns this situation into a positive. You can learn from it."
Her father told the station he acted out of 18 years of pent-up frustration and "the last thing he wanted to do" was push his daughter further away.
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Travis Scott's helping 50,000 folks in Houston weather the winter storm they've been dealing with ... by providing them all a hot meal.
The rapper and his Cactus Jack Foundation have teamed up with Mayor Sylvester Turner to launch an emergency food program Friday that will feed 50k residents who've been impacted by Texas' historic freeze.
Travis' foundation's working with local agencies and restaurant owners to get the hot meals to those still recovering from the frigid temperatures and days without water or power ... with the most vulnerable Houstonians at the front of the line.
The deliveries have been ongoing all over the city on Friday, and include truckloads of bottled water.
As you may know ... Travis is a Houston native and is regularly looking out for his hometown, including the huge toy drive he held for the holidays. His Cactus Jack Foundation also recently launched a scholarship program to help teens in furthering their education.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. defense officials say they are worried about an insider attack or other threat from service members involved in securing President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration, prompting the FBI to vet all of the 25,000 National Guard troops coming into Washington for the event.
The massive undertaking reflects the extraordinary security concerns that have gripped Washington following the deadly Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol by pro-Trump rioters. And it underscores fears that some of the very people assigned to protect the city over the next several days could present a threat to the incoming president and other VIPs in attendance.
Army Secretary Ryan McCarthy told The Associated Press on Sunday that officials are conscious of the potential threat, & he warned commanders to be on the lookout for any problems within their ranks as the inauguration approaches. So far, however, he & other leaders say they have seen no evidence of any threats & officials said the vetting hadn’t flagged any issues that they were aware of.
”We’re continually going through the process, & taking second, third looks at every one of the individuals assigned to this operation,” McCarthy said in an interview after he & other military leaders went through an exhaustive, three-hour security drill in preparation for Wednesday’s inauguration. He said Guard members are also getting training on how to identify potential insider threats.
About 25,000 members of the National Guard are streaming into Washington from across the country — at least two & a half times the number for previous inaugurals. And while the military routinely reviews service members for extremist connections, the FBI screening is in addition to any previous monitoring.
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(CNN) The Boy Scouts of America will be facing at least 92,700 claims of sexual abuse as former scouts submit filings against the bankruptcy-bound organization, said one of the lead attorneys for the legal team representing the claimants.
The initial estimate of 82,000 claims was released on Sunday. The updated number of 92,700 came from bankruptcy court after the 5 p.m. deadline for submitting claims Monday, attorney Andrew Van Arsdale told CNN in an email.
Gill Gayle, 58, who lives in Los Angeles but was raised in Alabama where he says he was twice abused as a scout in the 1970s, said this many people coming forward brings awareness to the issue in BSA.
"I'm not pleased there's that many men this has happened to," Gayle said. "I am glad this many reports is grabbing people's attention and will prevent other children from being assaulted like we were."
Gayle says he worked hard trying to be a part of the outreach to victims, saying he wanted "as many men to come forward as possible. I wanted them to know that what they went through would be recognized."
"We are devastated by the number of lives impacted by past abuse in scouting and moved by the bravery of those who have come forward," a BSA statement said. "We are heartbroken that we cannot undo their pain."
Sex abuse in the BSA was an "unspoken norm," according to Van Arsdale, one of the lead attorneys who says he has communicated with thousands of alleged survivors over the past 19 months.
"Based on what we are hearing from survivors, sexual abuse was a rite of passage in troops across the country, similar to other tasks where children had to ... perform certain duties to earn their coveted merit badges," he said in a statement.
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A monthlong mission in Ohio recently turned up 45 missing children and led to 179 arrests, authorities said.
In an operation dubbed Autumn Hope, the US Marshals Service in Ohio and Virginia tracked the children, including a “high-risk” 15-year-old girl from Cleveland who was linked to suspected human trafficking, authorities said Monday.
Twenty other children were also located as authorities checked on their well-being.
During one of the missing children recoveries, a loaded gun was recovered. A 15-year-old boy had two warrants and is suspected in multiple shootings and a murder, authorities said.
Two other juveniles were found in West Virginia during a traffic stop, leading to the arrest of an adult male who was charged with concealment/removal of a minor child in Jackson County.
Autumn Hope was conducted by the marshals in conjunction with the Ohio Attorney General’s Office and the Central Ohio Human Trafficking Task Force, as well as the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children and state and local agencies in Ohio.
“My thanks to all personnel who have stepped up for this operation,” said Peter C. Tobin, US Marshal for the Southern District of Ohio. “These are the same personnel who hunt down violent fugitives every day. I’m incredibly proud of them and pleased that they were able to apply those same skills to finding missing children. I know Operation Autumn Hope has made a difference in a lot of young lives.”
The US Marshals have conducted similar operations before, including in Ohio.
Last month, they said 35 missing children, between the ages of 13 and 18 from the Cuyahoga County area, were located during Operation Safety Net. Just over 20 percent of the found cases were tied to human trafficking.
That same month, the marshals also announced the arrest of 262 suspects, including 141 gang members, and the recovery of five missing children in Oklahoma.
Thirty-nine children were found in Georgia during Operation Not Forgotten in August and eight missing kids were recovered in Indiana in September as part of Operation Homecoming.
The marshals have found missing children in 75 percent of cases the agency has received — and 72 percent of those cases were recovered within a week, officials said.
Since 2005, the agency has recovered more than 2,000 missing kids.
Source: New York Post
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TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — Deputies arrested a Florida woman accused of a fraudulent return scheme involving dozens of Amazon accounts and thousands of returned items, according to the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office.
From March 2015 until August 2020, investigators said Hoai Tibma, 32, operated a scheme in which she reused prepaid shipping labels generated for canceled orders, and then applied them on other returns.
The tactic, the sheriff’s office says, would make it appear that she had paid for her own shipping costs on the returns when she actually did not.
Tibma completed 42,000 individual returns on the 31 different accounts, the sheriff’s office said. Those returns resulted in more than $165,000 reimbursed to Tibma’s name.
“This woman took advantage of a loophole she discovered in the return process,” said Sheriff Chad Chronister. “Through investigative means, our Economic Crimes detectives were able to quickly locate and apprehend the suspect. She was arrested without incident.”
Tibma reportedly admitted to the crimes and was charged with one count of grand theft.
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