Authorities in the US have arrested a man from California for allegedly smuggling a large sum of money worth of servers to the Asian country. Separately, a tech CEO has been charged with smuggling a substantial amount of money in chips from Nvidia into China. In a major city in the US, a suspect accused of smuggling a weapon into a government building was acquitted. Meanwhile, in the Middle East, the smuggling of a substance has increased following the downfall of Assad's regime.