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drug smuggler swallowed 67 packages of cocaine in an attempt to get through British customs. Student Fidelis Ozouli, 30, risked his life trying to hide the 1kg haul of the class A substance in his stomach. He later claimed he did not know the packets contained drugs. Officers at Manchester Airport became suspicious because Ozouli looked unnaturally bloated. They carried out X-rays on his stomach and discovered a quantity of cocaine equivalent to...
Six hours, 297 police officers, two provinces and 16 arrests - a mighty blow has been dealt to an international drug smuggling syndicate using South Africa to channel cocaine. And, aside from the haul of drugs, cash, cars, cellphones and pocket diamond scales, the pre-dawn raids netted an unexpected catch: a rogue police sergeant who allegedly used a state vehicle to hide narcotics worth half-a-million rands. Police revealed the spoils of Operation Dintwa (war) - which began at 3am on Friday and lasted six hours - at a press conference yesterday...
Bruneian man apprehended earlier this year while trying to smuggle nearly a kilogramme of heroin into China has been sentenced to life imprisonment, according to a statement issued by the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) yesterdayThe man, whose name the NCB did not disclose, was tried by the Second Intermediate People’s Court of Tianjin.He was detained by Chinese authorities at Binhai International Airport on June 23 after being caught with 995.72 grammes of heroin hidden in the lining of his suitcase. He had arrived from Kuala Lumpur aboard AirAsia...
Sandra Gregory, a convicted drug smuggler in Thailand, was arrested again after attempting to enter the kingdom through Bangkok Airport. She was first arrested in 1993 when she was caught with 86.9 grammes over heroin inside of her body. She had swallowed a condom full of the drug, but was detected by eagle officials. Gregory was then sentenced later that year to death for drug trafficking, but this was quickly commuted to 25-years in prison because she had admitted the charge. She spent a grueling four and a half years inside a Thai jail before...
Carol Andrea Gilmore, of Mississauga, Ontario, Canada, pleaded guilty to importing more than 200 grams of cannabis resin on November 5. She also admitted possessing the drug with intent to supply. "I would just like to apologise for my actions," the 41-year-old mother-of-two told Magistrates' Court. "I'm deeply sorry. For the sake of my children and my mom, have mercy on me please." According to Crown counsel Maria Sofianos, Gilmore entered the Island on a commercial flight from Toronto, Ontario around 12.10 p.m. She took one piece of luggage off...
"family" cross-country trip to visit a sick relative was really a cover for a million-dollar drug-trafficking operation, deputies allege.When the group of four adults and three children were pulled over on I-15 about 11:15 a.m. on Tuesday, Iron County Sheriff's Deputy Wade Lee thought the driver was intoxicated or tired as he weaved back and forth across a lane. A noticeable smell of marijuana put Lee on alert, especially as all four adults started lighting cigarettes, possibly to mask the smell of drugs, he said."The woman in the passenger seat,...
$30,000 worth of heroin from a vehicle en route to Roanoke from New York City, the Botetourt County Sheriff's Office said in a news release.A sheriff's deputy stopped the vehicle for speeding on Interstate 81 south near mile marker 160, the sheriff said in the release.A state police drug dog was called in and found the heroin stuffed in a spare tire.Chauvin Dwight Bailey, 31, and Sandy Marie Ball, 28, both of Roanoke, are charged with possession of heroin with the intent to distribute and transporting heroin into Virginia with intent to distribute....
29-year-old Malaysian woman has been charged with importing heroin into Australia by concealing it within buttons.Customs and Border Protection officers stopped the woman at Perth International Airport on Tuesday.Officers became suspicious the woman may have been concealing drugs in her suitcase.They broke open a button from an item of clothing and found white powder, which was confirmed to be heroin.Police say the woman hid half a kilogram of the drug inside 574 buttons which were sewed onto dresses.The maximum penalty for importing this quantity...
Zhivko Rusev, a Bulgarian national who was arrested in Iran over allegations of drug trafficking is going to go to trial in the Islamic Republic as the process begins on Monday.If the Iranian prosecution proves that he had been a part of a drug trafficking network, Rusev will be sentenced to death by hanging, which is the punishment for such an act in Iran, even for the smallest quantities.The Bulgarian was arrested in September 2008 near the northwestern Iranian city of Tabriz by the local anti-drug police services. A package of 135 kilograms...
Ahmed Hameed Sakhizada, 33, of Northampton, was jailed at Kingston Crown Court.He boasted: "I am Europe's agent, I am the smuggler of Europe." after he admitted a charge of conspiracy to contravene the Immigration Act.A charge of conspiracy to transfer criminal property was allowed to lie on file, while two other members of his gang were also jailed.Abdul Wakil Niazi, 35, of Camden Road, Tunbridge Wells, Kent, was sentenced to 12 years in prison after he was found guilty of conspiracy to contravene the Immigration Act and conspiracy to transfer...
Insp Fryer said."Five kilograms of pure heroin equates to about 20kg on the street . . . that is hundreds of thousands of hits," he said.Australian police have smashed a drug trafficking syndicate and seized heroin worth $A9 million ($NZ11.5 million) destined for Melbourne's streets. Officers in Sydney swooped on a 59-year-old Footscray woman carrying 700 grams, or two blocks of high-grade heroin, as she got on a train bound for Melbourne on Saturday night.The arrest led to a raid on a house in Burnside, in Melbourne's west, on Monday where police...
The $7.75 million worth of dope was going to be smuggled out of Pearson by ramp workers with links to the gangs, police say.Crime gangs in the GTA were to be the final stop for 300 kilos of pot and hash seized on two flights from Jamaica at Pearson airport, the RCMP says. Eight drug-filled duffel bags were found March 13 by crew off-loading a plane, said Patrizia Giolti, of the Canada Border Services Agency. The seizure wasn't made public until yesterday as officers were hoping to run down the smugglers. The bags contained 41 bricks of marijuana...
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Police have seized 1.5 kilograms of heroin from a Tajik national in the town of Lyubertsy southeast of Moscow, a Moscow Region police spokesman said on Sunday. The narcotics were discovered in a hiding place in an apartment rented by an unemployed Tajik national, the spokesman said. Most of the heroin and hashish coming into Russia originates in Afghanistan and is then trafficked into the country through the former Soviet republics of Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. Most of the drugs are then sold in Russia's largest cities, or shipped onto Europe....
Two B.C. men are facing charges after being pulled over in a truck carrying $3.5-million in cocaine, U.S. media are reporting.The men were pulled over in California between the towns of Barstow and Victorville, about 150 kilometres northeast of Los Angeles. Police noticed their truck bed appeared shallower than it should be.Police seized the vehicle, and used a fork lift to remove the truck bed. They discovered an elaborately hidden stash of powdered cocaine totalling 68 kilograms with a street value local police think to be about $3.5-million.The...
53-year-old man has been arrested at Prestwick Airport on suspicion of trying to smuggle a quantity of cocaine into the country. The man was stopped by officers from the UK Border Agency on Tuesday night after he got off a flight from Spain. Police were called after he was found to be in possession of drugs, believed to be cocaine, with an estimated street value of £60,000. The man was expected to appear at Ayr Sheriff Court on Wednesd...
Roman Vidal, 57, allegedly smuggled millions of dollars in black market cigarettes through the Port of Miami on behalf of European gangs --- including the Real IRA, which has claimed responsibility for an attack on a four soldiers waiting for a pizza delivery.The brutal killings -- which included execution shots to wounded victims lying on the ground -- threaten to derail the peace process in Northern Ireland, with one Protestant leader warning that it might signal a return to the "bad old days where people are being killed in open air gun attacks."Vidal...
Heroin worth an estimated €250,000 has been seized following the search of an apartment in Adamstown.As the result of an intelligence led operation, gardaí searched an apartment in the Adamstown area of Lucan, Co Dublin last night.A car was also seized and taken to Kevin St for a technical examination. During this examination, which was carried out this morning, 1.25kg of heroin were discovered.This substance, depending on a forensic analysis, has a potential street value of €250,000.Certain paraphernalia associated with drug dealing were also...
Julian Burford, 40, and Turner D. Williams, 34, were arrested. The men are being held in Cleveland City Jail for investigation of aggravated drug trafficking. No formal charges have been filed.investigation Tuesday netted more than 70 pounds of cocaine with a street value of more than $5 million.Officers investigating the drug trafficking operation learned that a truckload of cocaine originating in California was en-route to Cleveland."This is another example of our never-ending fight against narcotics trafficking in this area," said McGrath. "As...
Ex-paramilitary leader Miguel Angel Mejia Munera was handcuffed and wearing a bullet-proof before he boarded a U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) plane in Bogota bound for the United States, which had offered a $5 million reward for information leading to his capture.Colombia extradited one of its most-wanted drug lords to the United States on Wednesday to face charges of running an armed cocaine-smuggling gang with his twin brother, police...
Two Guyanese women en route to separate African destinations were arrested at airports in Brazil and Portugal after cocaine concealed in liquid eyeliner containers were discovered in their checked luggage, police said yesterday.A release from the Force stated that they have been informed that on February 11, Portuguese customs officials at Lisbon airport seized over 16 kilograms of cocaine concealed inside liquid eyeliner containers placed in the checked baggage of a 42-year-old Guyanese female. She was travelling from Portugal to Brazil to Guinea...
Officers from the Revenue's Customs Service seized money, cocaine and a large haul of cigarettes over the weekend at Dublin Airport.Two sums of cash, €28,450 and €34,900, were seized yesterday when officers searched the baggage of two Irish nationals, aged 44 and 32, who were about to board a flight to Malaga.Officers were granted two-month detention orders this morning in each case by Justice Brian Smyth in the Dublin District Court, to carry out further investigations.On Saturday, officers intercepted a 25-year-old Polish man who had arrived...
Authorities say trash bags containing marijuana, tobacco and cell phones were thrown over a wall at a minimum-security housing facility near Oklahoma State Penitentiary.Capt. Don Hass of the McAlester Police Department says three Tulsa women were arrested in the smuggling attempt after a neighbor called authorities.The incident occurred Friday at Talawanda Heights which is a 69-bed minimum security unit outside the east gate of the main OSP facility. It houses inmates used in OSP support positions such as maintenance and kitchen work.Deputy Warden...
Officers of the Narcotics Bureau (NB) arrested six men, aged between 21 to 43, and seized 12 kg of cocaine worth about $10.5 million at Tsim Sha Tsui yesterday (February 16).Officers of the NB have closely monitored a transnational drug trafficking syndicate in January, in which the syndicate was actively involved in arranging cocaine from overseas to be shipped to Hong Kong for local distribution.Acting on intelligence, a consignment of cocaine would be collected from the airport and delivered to a premises in Tsim Sha Tsui yesterday. Officers...
Spanish police have detained 10 people and shut down a cocaine processing lab in Madrid, police said Tuesday. Police also seized 3.2 kg of drugs, authorities said. Those arrested were part of an alleged drug trafficking cartel from Dominican Republic, police said. Police said the cartel introduced drugs to Spain through the Dominican Republic and Central America. The group was headquartered in Santo Domingo and led by a man linked to Colombian drug traffickers. The ring operated in Spain in the Teutan district of Madrid, police said. The cartel...
Brazilian Federal Police announced on Wednesday the seizure of 423 kg of cocaine in the southeastern state of Sao Paulo. Two people were arrested in the operation on the SP-330 state road on the outskirts of Ribeirao Preto, the police said. Two rifles and four machine guns were also seized. The cocaine was found hidden in a truck carrying corn. The police said they started investigating the case two weeks ago and focused on one of the arrested who organized the shipment. The person was also suspected of smuggling weapons to one of the largest...
Second time in a fortnight that an airline crew has been detained at Heathrow. The 15 members of the flight crew, including the pilot, were being held by officers after five kilos of a substance thought to be cocaine with and estimated street value of £250,000 pounds was allegdly discovered in a bag. The crew was trying to clear customs at London's Heathrow Airport following a 12-hour flight from Johannesburg when they were stopped and searched. Bob Gaiger, spokesman for HM Revenue and Customs, said the alleged drugs were discovered after the crew...
Arrest of two Thai members of a drug gang that tricks Thai women into becoming drug couriers is just the first step in a clampdown on a West Africa-based drug trafficking network.Narcotics Suppression Bureau chief Wuthi Liptapanlop views the case in which he and his investigative team spent nine months as only a half measure of success.The team is taking further steps to bring the masterminds - the West African drug traffickers - to justice, he said.The...
woman arrested at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport on heroin smuggling charges has been indicted by a federal grand jury.U.S. Attorney David E. Nahmias said on Wednesday that 24-year-old Zanada Moses of Baltimore, Md., was indicted on charges of importation of and possession with the intent to distribute heroin with an estimated street value of $1 million.Nahmias said Moses arrived at the airport after a flight from Panama City, Panama, on Jan. 15.He said that during a customs inspection, officers recovered about two pounds of heroin,...
woman was arrested at the city’s airport on suspicion of trying to smuggle cannabis with a street value of £60,000 into the country.The woman, in her 20s, was stopped by UK Border Agency officers on Wednesday after arriving on a flight from Jamaica.She was arrested after 21 kilos of cannabis was found in baggage. She was released on bail until April.Customs senior investigation officer, John Theobald, said: “This is another excellent result and sends out a clear message that regional airports like Birmingham are not a soft touch for drug smuggling.“This...
Special Agents from the Federal Bureau of Investigation conducted raids in several locations in Bridgeport early Wednesday morning, taking down an apparent drug ring.Thirty-four individuals were arrested in the raids, according to the U.S. Attorney's office. Charges include possession and distribution of cocaine, crack cocaine and heroin throughout Bridgeport and Fairfield County. It's the culmination of a year long investigation dubbed 'Operation G-Force' which included federal, state and local law enforcement.Court appointed lawyers were called...
Four men are convicted of smuggling 2.9 million dollars worth of cocaine...and laundering millions of dollars.U.S. Attorneys sentenced four Mexican nationals to lengthy prison terms for being part of a cocaine drug smuggling ring.Ice agents busted them during an investigation in March of 2008.The investigation identified a warehouse where drug money was being delivered and cocaine was being loaded and shipped to big citi...
Police in Kingston, Jamaica on Tuesday busted a ship that arrived in that country from Guyana with over sixty million Jamaican dollars in cocaine.Reports out of that country stated that the vessel, MV Rothen arrived at the Kingston Wharf on Tuesday from Guyana.Stabroek News confirmed that the ship docked at the John Fernandes Wharf on January 23 and sailed out the following day.According to The Gleaner newspaper some 81.5 pounds of cocaine worth J$62 million was found on the boat which was scheduled to leave for Panama after picking up cargo.The...
Fifty-nine-year-old citizen of the United States of America is presently in police custody after a quantity of cocaine was discovered in her hand luggage.The incident occurred at around 08:45 hrs yesterday, at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport, as the woman was about to board a flight back to her homeland.According to a police press release, a check by ranks revealed that a total of 1kg. 235 grams of suspected cocaine was concealed in the checked luggage and hand piece of the woman’s luggage.The woman’s daughter, Petal Caesar, told Kaieteur...
Arrest of three Guyanese on Saturday, including a brother and sister, in Trinidad with various amounts of cocaine.Officials in Trinidad have confirmed that they have held a Guyanese taxi driver after cocaine was found in the walls of his suitcase. They have also held a Florida-based real estate broker and his sister who had the illegal drug strapped to their bodies.The suspects arrived in Trinidad on Saturday, and were in-transit to other destinations when they were apprehended.According to a source in the twin-island republic, at about 07:50 hours,...
Troopers say they stopped Jose Antonio Avianeda Bahena, 23, of Brevard, N.C., on Sunday after watching him follow another car too closely and seeing his brake light was out. Troopers say a police dog sniffing around the car jumped through an open window to reach the car's center console. Underneath the console were 12 bundles of cocaine, weighing more than 26 pounds, police said. Bahena is being held in the St. Francis County Jail on charges of defective equipment, felony possession of a controlled substance with intent to deliver and felony possession...
15-member crew of a South African Airways jetliner was arrested today at London's Heathrow Airport after border agents found 110 pounds of marijuana and about 10 pounds of cocaine in three suitcases, AFP reports. The crew — 10 women and five men, including the pilot — was detained while passing through a customs checkpoint, shortly after landing on the flight from Johannesburg. The pot was valued at $210,000 and the coke roughly $320,000."Interviews will be taking place and will probably go into tomorrow, and then we will decide whether we are...
Moorhead authorities seized $2,000 worth of white heroin, a semiautomatic handgun and $2,600 in an investigation that also led to the arrest of four people. A traffic stop in the 1800 block of 20th Street South in Moorhead late Thursday led to the seizure of 41 bindles of white heroin, which is similar in appearance to a powder cocaine and very rare in the region, Moorhead Lt. Brad Penas said. Black tar heroin is more common in the area, he said.During...
27-foot boat and two men with suspicious answers. A dog sniffed, the men rolled and authorities soon had a cocaine conspiracy.Palm Beach police learned of a Wellcraft boat arriving from the Bahamas through the Palm Beach Inlet, according to an arrest affidavit released Thursday by the U.S. Attorney's Office.Palm Beach officers stopped the boat shortly after 8 p.m. Boat operator Calvin Roberts, 34, from the Bahamas, told them the vessel belonged to a friend and they were taking it to Riviera Beach to have work done. But he didn't know his friend's...
Leroy Carr first came to the attention of federal agents at the Washington-Canadian border after being spotted with equipment commonly used by smugglers, including night-vision goggles and a Global Positioning System device.According to the U.S. Attorney's office, in August of 2007 Carr called federal agents and told them he had stashed two backpacks containing nearly 70 pounds of cocaine near the border.Agents say Carr wanted them to send a press release saying the cocaine had been seized, so that the smuggling ring he worked for would not retaliate...
Philadelphia police say they've arrested three people who were trafficking 68 kilograms of cocaine.Deputy Commissioner Bill Blackburn says the cocaine was hidden inside furniture that was filled a rental truck. Police stopped the truck Friday afternoon in the Juniata Park neighborhood of Philadelphia and got a search warrant.In addition to the cocaine, Blackburn says police seized three handguns and "an undetermined amount of U.S. currency."Blackburn says investigators are still trying to determine the real names of the three people arrested. He...
Customs say they have disrupted a tobacco smuggling ring after they executed search and seizure warrants in Perth.Investigations began on December 19 when Customs officers at the Fremantle Container Examination Facility selected a container from the United Arab Emirates for inspection.When officers unpacked the container they detected 24kg of undeclared molasses-flavoured tobacco.The tobacco was found in six boxes labelled as tomato paste and randomly distributed throughout the cargo container. Each box contained eight 500g satchels of the tobacco.Customs...
A man has been arrested in Dublin following the seizure of heroin with an estimated street value of €100,000.A garda spokesman said the heroin was seized following the search of a building in the Benburb St area of Dublin late last night.The man in his early 40s is currently being detained at Store Street Garda stati...
Edmonton-based Lebanese gang set up a staffing system similar to that used by oil rigs and diamond mines, where teams of two dealers would rotate into Iqaluit every six weeks, typically importing a half million dollars in product each time and exporting a similar quantity of cash on the way out.RCMP Constable James Morrison, one of the lead investigators, said there was no crack in Iqaluit before the gang hit town. Soon, local residents were burning through their life's savings to pay the steep price of $200 per 0.8-gram hit, and some turned to...
