NewsWhore
03-15-2012, 01:50 PM
There was a song some time ago that told of "50 ways to leave your lover" and now the Dominican authorities have found at least 37 ways to ship drugs. Some of the methods are unusual and many sound implausible.
According to El Caribe, a woman was found with her girdle stuffed with heroin as she tried to return to Spain after a month's vacation with relatives in the south west of the Dominican Republic.
A week later, a Serbian tourist was found with two kilos of cocaine wrapped inside several clothes hangers full of clothes.
These cases, reported in January, are just two of the 37 different ways that have been discovered by National Drug Control Department (DNCD) agents in the country's ports and airports between November 2011 and March 2012.
Before this they had found 111 ways used by international drug traffickers to move drugs overseas. "Drug mules" are well known, and apparently fit profiles that are known to the inspectors. However, filling the tubing of wheelchairs, hollowing out wooden mortars, inside bags of coffee, in squash, peppers, shoe linings, condoms, Lycra, cans of different products, tobacco packs, linings of aircraft, cauldrons, yams, plantains, and even in the anal passages and vaginas of the human mules, have all been used to try and get drugs through the checkpoints. The authorities have also found liquid heroin in bottles of whiskey, condoms filled with drugs in the stomach of pregnant women and in the hollowed out legs of expensive hand-made furniture.
Yesterday over half a ton of cocaine was found in bales of leaf tobacco at the Caucedo Multi-Modal Port. Some authorities suspect that people are often used as mules to distract attention from another, larger shipment in another airport or port facility, in a chess move of exchanging a pawn for a bishop or knight. Over four tons of cocaine was seized in the past year in Caucedo alone.
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According to El Caribe, a woman was found with her girdle stuffed with heroin as she tried to return to Spain after a month's vacation with relatives in the south west of the Dominican Republic.
A week later, a Serbian tourist was found with two kilos of cocaine wrapped inside several clothes hangers full of clothes.
These cases, reported in January, are just two of the 37 different ways that have been discovered by National Drug Control Department (DNCD) agents in the country's ports and airports between November 2011 and March 2012.
Before this they had found 111 ways used by international drug traffickers to move drugs overseas. "Drug mules" are well known, and apparently fit profiles that are known to the inspectors. However, filling the tubing of wheelchairs, hollowing out wooden mortars, inside bags of coffee, in squash, peppers, shoe linings, condoms, Lycra, cans of different products, tobacco packs, linings of aircraft, cauldrons, yams, plantains, and even in the anal passages and vaginas of the human mules, have all been used to try and get drugs through the checkpoints. The authorities have also found liquid heroin in bottles of whiskey, condoms filled with drugs in the stomach of pregnant women and in the hollowed out legs of expensive hand-made furniture.
Yesterday over half a ton of cocaine was found in bales of leaf tobacco at the Caucedo Multi-Modal Port. Some authorities suspect that people are often used as mules to distract attention from another, larger shipment in another airport or port facility, in a chess move of exchanging a pawn for a bishop or knight. Over four tons of cocaine was seized in the past year in Caucedo alone.
More... (http://www.dr1.com/index.html#7)