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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...
