Britain Candy Company (“NBCC”)

warehouse located in Wethersfield, Connecticut, and stole approximately 8,000 cartons of

cigarettes worth nearly $300,000. NBCC is wholly owned and operated by General Equities Inc.,

which also operates a chain of convenience stores along the East Coast called Food Bag. NBCC

is the “Food Bag fulfillment center” – that is, it “supplies all the products that you see in Food

Bag[]” stores, including cigarettes, candy, and other grocery items. Gov’t App’x at 106–08. As

of February 2017, there were 51 Food Bag locations: 35 in Connecticut, five in New York, five in

Massachusetts, three in Florida, two in New Jersey, and one in Pennsylvania. NBCC supplies

products to the Connecticut, New York, Massachusetts, and New Jersey Food Bag stores, but not

the Florida or Pennsylvania Food Bag stores.

     was used to distend the urinary bladder which served as an acoustic window for USS and helped to displace the bowel loops from the area of interest especially when scanning for pelvic organs such as the uterus, vagina, adnexae, prostate gland, and rectum. Patients with right hypochondrial pain underwent a preliminary scan, when they could not comply with the fasting protocol which was later repeated during fasting to confirm the finding. In equivocal cases, they were requested to come back for a repeat scan as soon as they were stabilized. Coupling gel was applied to the exposed abdomen from below the diaphragm to the symphysis pubis.

Most of the USS were performed by the first authors, and the scanning was done supine in both longitudinal and transverse planes. The