'Tebow' Sniffs Out Cocaine in Suitcase at Orlando Airport
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The craze for Denver Broncos quarterback Tim Tebow rose to new zoological heights after an Orlando, Fla., airport sniffer dog named after him caught a drug trafficker.
A Metropolitan Bureau of Investigation (MBI) drug canine named "Tebow" sniffed out a suitcase containing a kilogram of cocaine at Orlando International Airport, leading to the arrest of Weslie Jadier Morales Castro, the Orlando Sentinel reported.
MBI agents said that they approached 20-year-old Morales Castro on Dec. 8 after he was spotted checking the tags on each piece of luggage on the carousel, as though he did not know which should be his.
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Agents confronted him after he snatched a case, and drug-sniffing "Tebow" took a special interest in the bag, alerting authorities to its suspicious contents. A cocaine-stuffed children's toy was found inside.
Morales Castro claimed that the suitcase, which was tagged for a Jose Garcia, did not belong to him -- but later admitted that he was paid to take it to people at a nearby fast-food eatery.
AirTran Airways officials said that a Jose Garcia checked a suitcase for the Puerto Rico to Orlando flight but never boarded.
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Morales Castro now faces a federal charge of selling or distributing a controlled substance, according to a criminal complaint filed last week. He was released from jail on $25,000 bond.
Tim Tebow-mania already spawned a new word, "Tebowing," which means to mimic the deeply-religious 24 year old's end-of-game kneeling pose. It was recognized Monday as a new contribution to the English language by the Global Language Monitor.