RALEIGH -- Federal prosecutors from Raleigh are taking what they know about pinning down corrupt public officials, drug kingpins and sexual predators and teaching it to their counterparts in Kosovo, a young, fragile nation half a world away.
For months, U.S. attorneys assigned to the state's eastern district have been tutoring lawyers and police in the Balkan nation how to take down mob bosses, intercept heroin dealers and undermine a booming sex trafficking network.
"We've dealt with all of the same problems," said Bobby Higdon, chief assistant U.S. Attorney in the Eastern District of North Carolina, who has been to Kosovo twice on training missions. "We've not solved ours yet, but we're further ahead of them and had a few things we could show them."
The News & Observer
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