While ATCET members searched the aircraft, a CBP canine officer and his dog, Fenja, a 3-year-old German Shepherd who has been working for the agency for the last year, checked the bags. Fenja alerted officers to a duffel bag that had arrived on the flight.
   The bag was never claimed by any passenger. An x-ray showed brick-like objects inside the bag, which, CBP officers opened. They discovered 16 bricks of a white powdery substance, which tested positive for cocaine.
   The narcotics were turned over to Immigration and Customs Enforcement. No arrests were made.
   That same day, during a random baggage inspection of the luggage of a passenger who had arrived on a flight from the Dominican Republic, customs agents discovered four and a half pounds of heroin worth $350,000.
   The passenger presented one checked bag for inspection.Upon examination of the bag, CBP officers discovered six wooden hangers that were unusually heavy. A probe of the hangers revealed a brown powdery substance which field-tested positive for heroin. If convicted the individual faces a maximum of 10 years in prison.
   In mid-December, CBP officers at Kennedy Airport arrested a 29-year-old U.S. citizen for attempting to import nearly eight pounds of cocaine concealed in six hangers and one tie rack from the Dominican Republic.
   The Customs and Border Protection Canine Unit at Kennedy has more than 20 detector dogs who rely on their superior sense of smell to detect narcotics and explosives hidden in baggage, luggage, mail bags, cargo and aircraft cabins.
   Since the fiscal year began in October 2008, CBP and ATCET officers at the airport have made 53 seizures totaling nearly 172 pounds of heroin from passengers arriving from abroad.From October 2007 through September 2008, they seized just over 300 pounds of heroin from arriving passengers.
   The ATCET was established by CBP in August 2003 with the stated mission of protecting the American public against terrorists and deterring the importation of contraband into the United States. Although the primary mission of the ATCET teams is terrorism, it also targets all types of contraband, including narcotics.
   CBP estimates that 69 percent of ATCET is devoted to drug enforcement. According to law enforcement authorities the smuggling methodologies and their indicators are believed to be similar for both narcotics and terror-related activities.