Ralph Piccirilli News Today

Customs officers at O'Hare confiscated more than 5,000 illegal items passing through the airport last month, including hatching eggs concealed inside a neck pillow, dried cow skin, and dried rodents.

Most common items are pork and beef sausages, plants, plant materials, seeds for planting and wild game meat.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents at O'Hare International Airport stopped over $465,000 in fake merchandise and $76,00 in fake bills from entering the U.S.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents in two cities seized shipments of counterfeit goods and money estimated to be worth nearly $806,000 collectively.