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A Cuban American woman who was arrested at Tampa International Airport and charged with smuggling $100,000 from Cuba earlier this week said she had been paid to bring cash from the island to the United States several times a month, according to a federal criminal complaint. Mirtza Ocana, 38, a U.S. citizen and Tampa resident who had previously been living in Hialeah, was arrested on Monday at the airport when returning from Cuba after she failed to declare she was carrying more than $10,000 during a routine inspection. It is legal to bring cash into the U.S., but failure to declare quantities …

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