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Back in the sunny room, Matt and Amy looked at Erad.
'W-What are you doing here?' asked Matt.
'It's OK, Matt. Hi, Amy.' Erad sat down and looked at the After Drug Arrest
two scared friends. Tm an undercover aigent,' he said.
'I don't believe you. You're a drug trafficker!' said Amy.
'No, I'm not. I work for the police.'
'I don't understand,' said Matt. 'Why didn't you help us?
Why did you do all those things?'

'Yes, I'm sorry about all that. But I worked for rrÍonths
with the drug traffickers in different countries. There were
more people than Sharon and Troy, and they did sorne very
bad things. They trusted me. I wanted to wait and arrest
them all with the drugs. But then you carne and .. . things
changed. I'm sorry about the dive Matt, but they wanted to
kill you and it was the only thing to do.'
TUDENTS OF FLORIDA the ocean. Amy watched Matt
'But we took all those drugs on the plane,' cried Amy. Atlantic College, from on deék. When the Coast
'That was your idea, too.' Matt Kreski and Amy Guard carne close to the boat
'Yes, Amy, it was dangerous and I'm sorry, but it was the S Collins, 18, had an Amy shouted for help, but the
only answer. I couldn't do anything to help you then. I exciting vacation this week. traffickers stopped her. Later, the
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went back to the boat and¡waited. After your arrest I talked They got on a boat at West Palm traffickers took Amy and Matt to
Beach and minutes later they a hotel in Nassau and the next
to the police. Before you could be free again, there were a
were in deep trouble. Tt was a day the two young friends were
number ,of arrests of important people in the Bahamas drug traffickers' boat and soon on a plane back to the States. In
and here in the States. There were arrests in other after Matt and Amy arrived, the their bags, they had the twenty
undercover
agent a countries, too. The police are very happy. A lot of very traffickers got on the boat, shot a packages of dangerous drugs.
policeman who man, and left for the Bahamas. Customs found the packages and
does not wear dangerous peo ple are in prison now.'
policeman·s 'Yes, and we're in prison too,' said Matt. 'What about our When they found Matt and Amy made an arrest at once. The
clothes, so people on their boat, they wanted to young people were in prison
do not know that families and our friends? What do they think of us now?'
he's working far shoot them. But Matt is a good when an uodercover agent from
the police 'Take it easy,' smiled Erad. 'You and Amy are free to go swimmer and diver, and the drug the boat called the police, and
newspaper now. And soon everybody is going to know the true story traffickers needed him.
people read The explained the true story. Matt
about things that about your little vacation.' young man di ved and brought up and Amy are now free to go back
happen every twenty packages of drugs from
day in this The next day, Amy and Matt' s story was in the newspaper. to their studies at college.

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