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