MAN ACCUSED OF SMUGGLING

U.S. officials have arrested a Los Angeles businessman and charged him
with attempting to import 300 pounds of Ecstasy, the nation's single
largest seizure of the illegal drug.

Benjamin Wizmann, 41, was arrested on May 10 on charges he paid a
confidential informant within the U.S. Customs Service to smuggle
three packages containing 490,000 Ecstasy pills through San Francisco
International Airport.

The packages of pills had a street value of about $15
million.

Ecstasy, also known as "MDMA", is a party drug that has grown in
popularity with young people.