True Detective

Jay, Des and Jimmy.

Tuesday, 8 January 2008

evidence was collected by officers using secret video and audio surveillance as they bought heroin, crack cocaine and amphetamine while posing as addicts called Jay, Des and Jimmy.
Twenty-seven dealers were jailed, with five being recommended for deportation, while six other suppliers were given community sentences.
In a four-month crackdown, three officers recruited from other police forces went undercover to target crack and heroin dealers.
The crackdown began as Operation Nullify an undercover test-purchase sting where Once the surveillance and drugs deals were completed as Operation Nullify, between October 2005 and January 2007, Operation Nailed was launched with dozens of arrests being made.

Brandon Lee Commander

Brandon Lee Commander reported discovering marijuana and drug paraphernalia in plain view at Commander's Westville residence. Commander was charged with possession of marijuana and possession of drug paraphernalia, in addition to being served with a warrant charging him with cultivation.

Xavier Garibay

Xavier Garibay, 28, on an unspecified outstanding warrant and allegedly saw marijuana and powder cocaine inside the dwelling. A more detailed search ensued, and more cocaine and marijuana were found, according to the press release. Garibay was charged with possession of cocaine and marijuana, in addition to being served with the original warrant.

Gala Mitchell Andrews, Buddy Bowland Powell

Gala Mitchell Andrews, 44, was charged with manufacture and possession of methamphetamine and with possession of listed chemicals.
Buddy Bowland Powell, 24, of Palatka, was charged with possession of marijuana.
Bonifay Police Department and the county worked together on an investigation of a suspected meth lab on Jan. 4. When they got to the suspect residence, at 210 Hatcher Drive in Bonifay, they obtained a search warrant based on unspecified probable cause. Inside, investigators reported, they found items commonly used to manufacture methamphetamine, and a small amount of meth.

Steven Ramsey

Steven Ramsey, who has played in nightclubs around the country, was told he was lucky not to go to jail for being in possession of such a large variety of drugs.Ramsey admitted possession of a class A drug with intent to supply, possession of a class C drug with intent to supply, three charges of possessing class A drugs, three of possessing class C drugs, and one of supplying class C drugs to persons unknown, when he appeared at Worcester Crown Court on Friday.
Prosecutor Peter Tooke said police obtained a warrant to search Ramsey's home in St Mary's Court, Sansome Walk, on June 26 where they found: l 10 bottles of LSD in liquid form valued at £2,000.
l 175 grams (6.17 ounces) of cannabis worth £100.
l Three pieces of perforated card creating 17 squares of paper impregnated with LSD worth £34.
l Enough MDMA to make between 95 and 130 ecstasy pills worth between £190 and £260.
l 0.02 grams of DMT - a hallucinogenic drug never found by police in the Worcester area before.
l 0.54 grams (0.019 ounces) ketamine worth £20 in small glass bottle.
l 78 tablets of a class C drug equivalent to valium worth between £39 and £78.
l Three sets of electronic scales.
l A mobile phone with evidence of messages referring to drug dealing.
Judge Richard Rundell sentenced Ramsey to 12 months in prison which he then suspended for two years, a community order to do 200 hours unpaid work, and a supervision requirement for two years.
He also ordered the forfeiture and destruction of the drugs and scales.

Anthony Cappiello

31-year-old Anthony Cappiello was taken into custody adding that he has previous felony convictions. 501 Argus Drive where they found three weapons and hundreds of thousand of dollars worth of illegal street drugs, including 342 marijuana plants.Sources said he may have been renting the house on Argus Drive.

Ernest Cecil

Ernest Cecil on one count of conspiracy to distribute over 500 grams of cocaine; one count of aiding and abetting the possession with the intent to distribute over 500 kilograms of cocaine in violation; one count of robbery; and one count of brandishing a firearm during a drug robbery, according to a news release from the U.S. Attorney's office.former Metro police officer has been sentenced to serve 12 years in federal prison for convictions on federal drug and robbery charges.
Evidence presented during the four-day trial showed that Cecil helped and protected his nephew Corey Cecil's drug distribution activities for more than two years.
Cecil warned his nephew about police investigations including advising him to change his telephone number when his name was mentioned in connection with the investigations.
Cecil also arranged for his nephew's traffic tickets to be dismissed.
The trial also revealed that Ernest Cecil participated in a drug robbery in 2003.
He also arranged a pseudo drug bust with another former officer Charles R. Williams. In a separate trial last January, Williams was convicted of misprision of a felony for his involvement in the April 2003 robbery, according to a news release from the U.S. Attorney's office.

Michael Vick

Michael Vick, After pleading guilty to charges related to dogfighting, Vick tested positive for marijuana while awaiting sentencing.
He was sentenced to serve 23 months in federal prison for his conviction on dog fighting and related charges, was transferred to Leavenworth, Kansas with hopes of entering a drug treatment program, his attorney Billy Martin, told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution Monday.
Vick's attorneys, Martin and Lawrence Woodward, hope that Vick may be eligible to have his sentence reduced after completing the program.
The attorneys issued the following statement Monday afternoon: "Mr. Vick has been transferred from the Northern Neck Regional jail in Virginia to the U.S. Bureau of Prisons minimum security facility in Leavenworth, Kansas."Mr. Vick hopes to participate in progams offered at that facility, including the Bureau of Prisons drug treatment program.

Ronald Fortson II,India Tardy

Monday, 7 January 2008

Ronald Fortson II, 25, and India Tardy, 24, both of Indianapolis, were stopped early Sunday morning at mile marker 64 on suspicion of a traffic-related violation.
Indiana State Police said an odor of marijuana inside the vehicle led to further investigation. Troopers said they found the drug and $6,000 in the vehicle.

Danny Gee

Danny Gee, 28, was arrested on Saturday night after police raided a house in Cornhill, just off Wapping, near Liverpool city centre.
Nearly 300 bags of heroin and cocaine, along with a quantity of cannabis, were found at the address.
A search of the property also uncovered four imitation firearms, a decommissioned musket and some Samurai swords.

seized 9.4 metric tons (10.4 tons) of cocaine

Portuguese police said Monday they had seized 9.4 metric tons (10.4 tons) of cocaine hidden in a ship container and broken up an international drug-smuggling ring.
A police statement said a joint investigation with Spanish authorities that lasted almost three years led to the discovery of the cocaine last month in a ship that docked at Lisbon after traveling from Venezuela.
several tons of cocaine hidden in a cargo of frozen octopus. Eight people are in custody.235 of the 635 boxes on board were found to contain a frozen substance with traces of octopus, but which also tested positive for cocaine. The total weight, including the ice, is 9.4 tons. A complete analysis of the cargo is being carried out at the Police Forensics Laboratory in Lisbon to determine exactly how much cocaine is in the boxes.Five of the eight arrests took place in Spain: in Toledo, Madrid and Salamanca. One of them is originally from Colombia, but now has Spanish nationality. There were also four property searches which resulted in police confiscating 50,000 € in cash, laptop computers and PDAs, two luxury vehicles, mobile phones, and a large amount of documentation.
The refrigerated container reached the port in the Portuguese capital, Lisbon, on 22nd December, ostensibly with a cargo of 24 tons of frozen octopus. It came from Venezuela and was to be delivered to a Portuguese importers, and then sent on to Spain.
The cocaine was dissolved in a frozen liquid that was part of a cargo of octopus, the statement said.
Following the seizure, Spanish police arrested five suspects, including one Colombian, and two other people were detained in Portugal.three people taken into custody in Portugal are all Portuguese, and one is a woman.

Brian Travis Pettey

Brian Travis Pettey, 30, of Apple Valley was facing 29 years to life in prison after being convicted of possession and transportation of a controlled substance.

Joseph Butler,Timothy Johnson,Rebecca Changery

Joseph Butler, 25, of 233 County Road was charged with possession of cocaine and marijuana with intent to distribute, and two counts each of possession of Class B and Class E substances, according to police. Also arrested at the residence was Timothy Johnson, 26, of 11 Woodview Drive, charged with possession of marijuana.Rebecca Changery, 21, of 89 Park Drive, Boston, was arrested and charged with possession of Suboxone and marijuana as she was leaving the residence.

Illegally prodroduction of methamphetamine: Arrests

Arrested at Darwin International Airport a 56-year-old man at Berry Springs while two men, aged 35 and 52, were . The older man had just returned to Darwin on a flight from Indonesia.
The trio were due to appear in Darwin Magistrates Court on Monday charged with conspiring to import a border-controlled precursor into Australia.
The AFP said they faced a maximum fine of $550,000 and/or imprisonment for 25 years.
Customs were also involved in the investigation into allegations the men were arranging a large importation of pseudoephedrine into Australia.
Pseudoephedrine can be used to illegally produce methamphetamine, known as ice in its crystallised form.

Farman Ali, Muhammad Hussain, Ijaz Ahmed, Faizan, Ayub, Zubair, Naeem, Muhammad Zulifqar, Rashid, Adnan, Zaheer Ali and Ali Sher.

Farman Ali, Muhammad Hussain, Ijaz Ahmed, Faizan, Ayub, Zubair, Naeem, Muhammad Zulifqar, Rashid, Adnan, Zaheer Ali and Ali Sher have been arrested. The Police teams have arrested 33 drug pushers and seized 2 kg charas, 115 gm heroin and 19 bottles of liquor from them. The police have raided four dens, Dera Mian Majid Mujavir, Lower Mall; Dera Shafique, Shafiqabad; Dera Aba Gujjar, Shafiqabad; and Dera Humayun Khan, New Anarkali and claimed to arrests

Daniel P. Donnersbach

Sunday, 6 January 2008

Daniel P. Donnersbach, 49, is charged with dealing in meth, possession of meth, possession of chemical agents with intent to manufacture a controlled substance and possession of marijuana, a misdemeanor
Donnersbach was arrested at his home Oct. 23 after a warrant was issued charging him with stealing a lighter from a tobacco shop near his apartment in the 600 block of North Meridian Street.
The arresting officers reported smelling the odor of marijuana in Donnersbach's apartment.
With Donnersbach jailed on the theft charge, authorities received a search warrant, returned to the apartment and reported finding a methamphetamine lab, along with materials to make meth and marijuana.
Donnersbach received a 25-year prison term and was determined to be a habitual offender in June 1981 after he had been convicted of four felonies over a three-year period.

Paradise is slowly becoming a nest for drug offenders

Addu Atoll Office and island offices has claimed that while the atoll is slowly becoming a nest for drug offenders, the role played by the police is not sufficient.
In recent months, many have brought the issue to the attention of Atoll Office and island offices as drug abuse, theft and violence has become increasingly more rampant. Many have brought the issue to the attention of Addu Atoll office “However much we call them, they are not coming, police are not interested in what is going on in the atoll, they have a personal affront towards the atoll” said a Maradhoo person.
These days drug traffickers openly engage in business on the roads of Addu, as police presence is some what less. This is especially more in Maradhoo.
Atoll Chief Mohamed Abdulla told Kaafu Laamu that many have raised the issue to the Atoll office and that even Atoll Office has urged the police to be more active.
“Police cannot have a personal affront towards the people of a certain island, many people of Maradho have said that when they call police for assistance, police responds back by saying that all the people of Maradhoo are all offenders, how can it be, just because a police vehicle was attacked in Maradhoo they cannot base their thinking like that” said a senior citizen of Hithadhoo.

Michelle A. Wilmer

Michelle A. Wilmer, 23, of 110 Terrace Court, Bristol, TN was employed at Graystone Healthcare, 181 Dunlap Road, Blountville, TN when the abuse occurred at the end of May, 2007. Wilmer is accused of giving a patient marijuana. When the patient ingested the substance, it had implications on the patient’s current medical condition. The TBI’s Medicaid Fraud Control Unit investigated the case.
Wilmer was booked into the Sullivan County Tennessee Correctional Facilility

Roberto Garcia Cruz

Roberto Garcia Cruz, 42, of Houston. Cruz has three convictions for drunken driving, the last time in 2000, according to Texas Department of Public Safety records.
Cruz was driving a charter bus back to Houston from Monterrey, Mexico early Wednesday morning when he misjudged a curve and lost control of the vehicle near Victoria.
The bus, which was carrying 46 passengers, flipped on its side, killing one man. A female passenger whose arm was amputated after the wreck has filed a lawsuit.
Cruz also did not have a license to drive a commercial vehicle outside Texas. He's also been convicted of two charges dealing with assault, according to state records.

Abdula Fauthwla ( Polla Banan )

During the 1980s, Norwegian police issued an arrest warrant for Fauthwla on charges of heroin trafficking, possession of weapons and ammunition, possession of poisons and other charges.
Norwegian Police, though, lost track of the suspect before he could be arrested and he fled the country. Police now believe Fauthwla somehow made his way to Canada under an assumed name, filing a refugee claim as Polla Banan and eventually gaining Canadian citizenship under that name. Since then, he's lived under the radar.
It's not clear how authorities uncovered Fauthwla's real identity. All CBSA would say is that Fauthwla was ordered deported on July 31, 2007 for misrepresenting himself and that a warrant for his arrest was issued at that time.
He is being held at Maplehurst Detention Centre pending a review by a the Immigration and Refugee Board

Ayub Ali

Ayub Ali, 42, from Grange Villa, near Chester-le-Street, is due in court in February as part of efforts to seize his two houses under the Proceeds of Crime Act.
In October 2004, Ali was jailed for three-and-a-half years at Newcastle Crown Court.
He was one of 11 people charged with conspiracy to supply heroin arising out of a major undercover operation throughout 2003, which targeted the distribution of Class A drugs in the former pit village.

Cannabis Growing House on Teeside

A cannabis house on Teeside has been uncovered after workers at a drugs charity noticed a strong smell coming from the empty house next door.
Plants with a street value of £250,000 were seized when police raided the house in Stockton's Skinner Street.Officers found specially-heated and ventilated rooms full of cannabis plants.Staff from A Way Out noticed the smell when they bought Christmas decorations down from their loft.

Robert Daniel Flook

Robert Flook, convicted of smuggling tons of cocaine and dagga from SA to the UK, will soon know how many years he will spend behind bars.
Flook is believed to be a senior member of the syndicate which, for six years, used front companies to send shipments of drugs hidden in garden furniture and mirrors.
Three men suspected of being Flook's South African connections were arrested in Durban last year .In the early years, Flook set up a tourism business that organised sport packages for UK residents to visit South Africa and watch rugby matches and golf tournaments.
It was through these tours, police believe, that Flook made the connections he needed to start smuggling drugs. Although "unemployed", he lived a life of luxury.
Flook was to be sentenced at the Blackfriar Crown Court in London. But in a last-minute twist, the judge fell ill and the sentencing has been postponed.
Flook's arrest was linked to the largest dagga seizure in the history of London's Metropolitan Police and the arrest of the trio in Durban saw South Africa's second largest cocaine bust.
Flook (46) was arrested in an operation that saw eight tons of dagga seized at Felixstowe port. Hidden inside a consignment of SA garden furniture, it had a UK street value of R392-million.
Flook was convicted last month of conspiracy to smuggle 150kg of cocaine and eight tons of dagga into the UK. But during the trial, police showed how the syndicate snuck 11 shipments of dagga and four of cocaine into the UK between 2001 and 2006 - with a street value of R4,9-billion.
The gang's ringleader, Robert Flook, He has been convicted of drugs trafficking and is currently awaiting sentence in London. Tutton, 56, and MacKinnon, 35, were part of a syndicate of which Briton Robert Flook was a kingpin. Flook has been convicted in London of 11 counts of dealing in drug dependence substances. Tutton and MacKinnon centred their criminal acts near Durban harbour which, it was said during the trial, the drug industry regarded as a low-risk gateway for drugs.
The drugs were in increasing quantities sent from Latin America to Durban for distribution to the United Kingdom mainly, other parts of Europe and less to other countries, Senior Superintendent Devin Naicker, who heads the fight against drugs in South Africa, told the court.
The authorities did not have enough facilities to check the more than a million containers passing through Durban harbour a year, Naicker said.
Tutton and MacKinnon processed some drugs in a Pinetown warehouse but when the dagga was seized they moved operations to Tongaat.street value of dagga at R1,30 a gram and estimated that the more than 290 117kg seized was worth R377 152 240.
The SAPS said about 170,5 hectares of dagga fields - which might have yielded a crop weighing 91 769kg, worth an estimated R119 300 million - were sprayed in the Eastern Cape
Naicker said that stern steps should be taken to combat the sale and use of dagga, which was regarded as a gateway to worse drugs. Many hopeless drug addicts said that their first drug was dagga.
The drug lords sold dagga to generate funds to buy the dangerous drugs such as cocaine and heroin.
Drug mules, who were often down-and-outs, were offered between R15 000 and R50 000 to take consignments from country to country.
Hundreds of mules are languishing in prisons in various countries.
He said that the "bad guys who had lots of money had no law but the poor guys had plenty of law." The drug industry was huge with networks that traded just about every place.
Heuer said that Tutton and MacKinnon had shown no remorse for their crimes. This lack of contrition did not influence the sentence he imposed but showed the type of people they were.
He said Tutton had falsified documention and used false identities to try to disguise their activities and had tailored his evidence to try to meet the exigencies ranged against them.
Tutton tried to punch a reporter who photographed them in the court building.
Their former co-accused, Ernie Smith, of Umhlanga, was found not guilty of the charges at a previous hearing. Heuer said that although there was a suspicion that he knew about the activities it was not enough to convict in South Africa. - Sapa

Mitchell Rothman

Mitchell Rothman, 55, of Accord was taken into custody at his resident at 19 Mettacahonts Road, Lot 32.
The arrest stems from an undercover operation in 2007 involving possession and intent to sell heroin. He was charged with criminal possession of a controlled substance in the third and seventh degree.
Rothman was arraigned and remanded to the Ulster County Jail on $10,000 cash bail.

Damian A. Nichols,

Damian A. Nichols, 27, of Wasilla; a relatively small amount of drugs; $200 in counterfeit bills; two firearms, one possibly stolen; and more than $3,200 in cash.
Nichols remained jailed Friday at Mat-Su Pre-Trial Facility in lieu of $30,000 cash-only bail and a court-approved third-party custodian. Online court records show Nichols was arraigned that afternoon on two counts of third-degree drug misconduct, possession with intent to deliver.

Customs officials battled with traffickers and "exchanged fire on all sides

750kg of ingredients used to make cocaine, following a nine-hour gunbattle with the suspected drug traffickers, customs officials said on Friday. No injuries were reported.
The operation occurred in Achiboro, located 1,300km northeast of Mali's capital, Bamako, on Tuesday, said the official, who asked not to be named because he is not authorized to speak to the media.
Customs officials hunted down the traffickers and "exchanged fire on all sides," he said.
The suspects abandoned their two cars and then fled in a third vehicle, vanishing in a part of the country that is home to the turbaned Tuareg rebels, desert nomads that have launched an insurgency.
But the customs official said there is no evidence to suggest the men of Ibrahim Bahanga, who have in the past been accused by the government of drug trafficking, were behind this incident.
Last week, Bahanga released 10 Malian soldiers and security guards that had been taken hostage months earlier after brokering an agreement with authorities. Details of the agreement, reached on Dec. 26, were not made public.
Mali had signed a peace deal with the Tuaregs last year to end a war started in the 1990s, and which resumed after a Tuareg attack in May 23, 2006. The government promised to increase the development of roads and other infrastructure in the impoverished north -- the Tuaregs' home.
But Bahanga's Tuareg faction refused to sign the peace deal, saying it did not do enough to help the Tuareg minority.
West Africa has become an entry point for cocaine destined for Europe, where its price is now double what it is in the US.
The drugs originate in South America and are then funneled to the countries on Africa's western seaboard.
It is a strategy designed to elude European airport security and coastal patrols with smugglers shipping drugs, as well as the ingredients used to make the drugs, in bulk to Africa's western coast. From there, they are parceled out to hundreds of individual smugglers who use fishing vessels, cars and their own bodies to sneak it north via countries like Mali into Europe.

Nazir Ahmad Chachu, Manzoor Ahmad Rather

Saturday, 5 January 2008

Nazir Ahmad Chachu of Abi Nawpora, the drug dealer, and Manzoor Ahmad Rather of Nai Sadak, the addict.
“After we got the information about their presence in the gutted building we immediately raided the spot and arrested these two persons red handed. We registered a case against the duo under FIR 109,” said Station House Officer (SHO) Police Station Nehru Park, Peerzada Ishaq.
The SHO said that after preliminary questioning the arrested duo revealed the names of suppliers of Brown Sugar and Charas in Kohna Khan area.
Nazir Ahmad, the peddler told police that Abdul Rashid Gunna supplied him drugs. Nazir traced the source of these drugs to Bandiun, Nyayun, Kandipura and Sangam areas of Islamabad district, the SHO added.
The SHO said police would arrest the main suppliers soon.

seized 47 kilos of heroin in Bulgaria

Police seized 47 kilos of heroin at the Bulgaria - Macedonia border from the car of a Turkish national. Photo by Yuliana Nikolova
Bulgarian customs officers at the Gueshevo border checkpoint with Macedonia seized Saturday 47 kilograms of heroin.
During a check officials found 80 packages of the drug, hidden in a secret compartment in the roof of a car, which was driven by a 50-year-old Turkish national.
The suspect was traveling from Turkey to Albania.
According to preliminary estimates, the seized heroin costs more than EUR 6 M.

Budimir Kujovic and three Bulgarians

The four had attempted to smuggle 60kg of high quality heroin from Turkey into Bulgaria. It was then to be distributed in European Union countries. The arrest took place in Plovdiv. The Interior Ministry named the perpetrator as Kujovic, who was described as one of the most prolific traffickers in the Balkan region. During the arrest Kujovic had allegedly injured a Plovdiv police officer. Kujovic was transferred to Stara Zagora where he was charged with drug trafficking. The four could face up to 10 years in prison.
On December 29 another 60kg haul of heroin was seized on its way into the country at the Kapitan Andreevo border checkpoint with Turkey. It was again linked to Kujovic by the Interior Ministry.
In February 2007 Kujovic received a two-year suspended sentence with a three-year probation period for entering Bulgaria illegally and staying in the country with fake identity documents. Because of this, his presence in the country provoked some questions but Iliev had the answers.
On January 1 he told reporters that he had resigned over an unsuccessful attempt to seize four tons of drugs. He had signed off the plan to capture the haul but the drugs never passed through Bulgaria’s borders.
He was adamant that he had had no choice but to endorse the operation against Kujovic. The drugs did not come when expected and somebody had to take the responsibility, Iliev said.
From his statement it became clear that letting Kujovic into Bulgaria was part of the operation. “Sixty kilograms of heroin is not a bad result. For me this means that the operation had been completed successfully. I think that now we are even with Kujovic.”
Iliev said he had sign off the operation while travelling around the country. He gave the green light while he was in Razgrad because he had to react quickly, based on information intercepted by the police. That was why Interior Minister Roumen Petkov was not informed about it on time and learned of the operation days later.
“Of course we cannot expect that there is a drug trafficker in the world that will transport four tons of drugs in one shipment. However we have managed to stop the drug trafficking channel and this is what counts.”
On January 2 Iliev received support from Petkov. “Iliev was mislead into approving the operation which let Kujovic into the country,” Petkov told a news conference. “Police officers from Razgrad police department were being investigated in relation to the operation,” he said. The positive backing Iliev received from his former boss coincided with warm words from Iliev about the Interior Ministry. “My professional life was within the ministry and I feel bad about leaving it. However I am a pensioner now but I hope that President Georgi Purvanov and Prime Minister Sergei Stanishev will reconsider their decision about accepting my resignation because I could be useful to Bulgaria with my knowledge.”

Jose Figueroa

Jose Figueroa, 36, of 123 Mather Ave., was the main distributor of heroin to the street level dealers throughout the residential housing complex.
Detectives, patrol and narcotics officers raided Figueroa's apartment Thursday evening at about 6:30 p.m. They came away with 60 grams of the heroin, including 12 bundles, which each contained 10 baggies packaged for street sales.
Also there were two small bags of the narcotic that were crushed into powdered form, the consistency and complexion of brown sugar.
Two other bags contained chunks of heroin in its dark brown brick form, which detectives said had yet to be “stepped on,” or diluted with, in this case, milk sugar, a quantity of which was also seized, along with a sieve, a toothbrush and a pestle used to grind the dope, converting it from brick to powder.
Two small plastic spoons used to shuttle one-tenth-gram quantities into tiny, yellow, zip-lock bags were confiscated as evidence of the operation of a drug factory, police said.
“This was the culmination of a lengthy investigation,” Turgeon said. “We believe he was the main supplier at this time.”
Figueroa was charged with possession of heroin, possession of more than one ounce of heroin with intent to sell, operating a drug factory and possession of drug paraphernalia.

Ben Shaw

Ben Shaw in the courtroom, wearing shackles on his ankles and wrists.Shaw, 23, and four friends had been drinking at a party on July 13 and left early that morning, intoxicated.
After driver Cody Fairbanks crashed into a sign, the passengers asked Stephan Peery to drive. He declined, and Shaw took the wheel.
Speeding nearly 30 miles over the limit, Shaw lost control of the Grand Am, hit a curb and slammed the car into a light pole at the intersection of 2230 North and University Parkway in Provo.
Peery, 20, died at the scene and passenger Ashley North, 20, died hours later at the hospital. Fairbanks, who wasn't expected to live, has now fully recovered, and Shaw and another passenger in the front seat were not seriously injured.
Laycock also added that even though everyone else in the car had been drinking, the responsibility fell on Shaw, the driver.

Scott Alan Johnson

Scott Alan Johnson’s vehicle following a traffic stop. Rysavy ruled that while the initial stop was valid, officers were not justified in asking Johnson to step out of his vehicle or calling a canine unit.
By reversing Rysavy’s order, the case is no longer dismissed, and the state will have the option of using the cocaine allegedly located in Johnson’s wallet as evidence against him. His next scheduled court date is Jan. 10.
In their opinion, the judges said the two Austin police officers had “reasonable and articulable suspicion of drug-related criminal activity” to search Johnson and his vehicle for several reasons, including the visual presence of marijuana in the middle console of his truck.
Johnson was charged with felony 2nd degree drug possession and misdemeanors open bottle in a motor vehicle and possession of a marijuana in a motor vehicle after police allegedly found 10.5 grams of cocaine on him, and a small amount of marijuana and two open bottles of brandy in his truck.
According to the complaint, Johnson was pulled over on Fourth Street Northwest by an officer who allegedly witnessed Johnson running a red light following a suspected drug deal.
Johnson allegedly appeared to be under the influence during his conversations with police, showing symptoms such as shaky hands, a twitchy face and glossy eyes.
Johnson also made “furtive” movements, the court opinion said, shifting side to side in possible efforts to hide something while the police officer checked his driver’s license.
The officer called back-up, including a canine unit, and asked Johnson to step from his truck. While conducting a pat search, the officer felt a bulge in Johnson’s wallet, which was allegedly discovered to be cocaine.

Adrien Beavers, Tracy Harper, Jason McCalister, Medora Nanoff, Tyrone Jackson, Julian Tim Mathis,Andrew Beavers, Frank Sims and Stephen Berg.

Adrien Beavers, Tracy Harper, Jason McCalister, Medora Nanoff, Tyrone Jackson, Julian Tim Mathis, Frank Sims and Stephen Berg. Sentences have ranged from about five years to more than 20 years in prison.Andrew Beavers, 29, pleaded guilty to conspiracy with intent to distribute more than 50 grams of crack cocaine. Beavers, who has two previous felony drug convictions, faces mandatory life in prison and an $8 million fine.

William Yendis Franklin

William Yendis Franklin was arrested by a Texas state trooper in Angleton on Thursday afternoon on a charge of possession of a controlled substance and was taken to the county jail.
While he was undressing for a body search during the routine booking process, he reached into his underwear and pulled out a small bag, officers said.
"It was quick," Brazoria County sheriff's Lt. Russ Baker said Friday. "He did it too fast for anybody to stop him."
Baker said Franklin chewed on the bag and then pulled the empty bag from his mouth.
When Franklin began to show effects of the drug, he was taken by ambulance to Angleton-Danbury Hospital. His condition continued to deteriorate, Baker said, and he died in the emergency room.

Amy Fitzpatrick:a stranger driving a white van had been spotted targeting children in the area

Amy Fitzpatrick, 15, has not been seen since the evening of New Year’s Day, when she left the friend’s home on the Riviera del Sol complex. It is understood that the missing teenager does not have her mobile phone or passport with her.

Officers from the Spanish Civil Guard searched waste ground yesterday in the tourist resort of Riviera del Sol, near Fuengirola, as part of their hunt for the Irish teenager. The land is close to the route that Amy would have taken on her ten-minute walk back to the home she shares with her mother, brother and stepfather.
She spent New Year’s Eve at her friend’s house, babysitting for the girl’s younger brother, and stayed the night before the pair headed to a local shopping centre on January 1. Amy then returned to the friend’s house before heading home at about 10pm.
Her mother, Audrey, 39, said last night that she had not heard anything from her daughter since a telephone call early on the day she vanished.
“The last time we spoke was on New Year’s Day morning when she rang to wish me happy new year.”
Mrs Fitzpatrick, from Dublin, said that she was starting to fear the worst. “I’ve racked my brains for a reason as to why Amy might want to go off on her own and I can’t think of one. She’s never done anything like this before. We’ve traced the route we think she would have taken but found no clues as to what might have happened to her. It’s a route she knows well and involves a walk of about two minutes down a dirt track.
“All I want is for Amy to pick up a phone and ring me or a friend and say she’s OK but at the back of my mind is that horrible fear that something’s happened to her and she can’t.”
The disappearance has shocked Riviera del Sol’s expatriate community. Police have spoken to the couple that Amy had been babysitting for on New Year’s Eve, an English woman and her Spanish husband. They have also questioned the teenager’s school friends, including a dozen British expatriate families who live in the area.
Mrs Fitzpatrick was preparing last night to distribute hundreds of appeal posters showing her daughter’s face. The teenager’s brother, Dean, 17, had spent the day taking police officers to see friends in the hope that someone had heard from her.
Ritchie Harris, a family friend, said: “Amy is a very pretty girl and although she’s mature for her age and likes to mix with an older crowd, she’s only 15 and still very much of a youngster.” Mr Harris, originally from London, said that he had been helping in the search for Amy, and had spent Thursday night scouring her e-mails and speaking to her friends via the online MSN Messenger service for clues as to her whereabouts.
A police helicopter spent part of yesterday flying over waste ground close to Amy’s home. The land, sandwiched between a motorway running along the Costa del Sol and houses leading down to the Mediterranean, is popular with dog walkers. Amy, who has dark, shoulder-length hair, was wearing a black jacket, dark tracksuit bottoms, a black Diesel T-shirt and black furry boots when she was last seen.
She moved to the Costa del Sol with her mother 3½ years ago. Her step-father, Dave McMahon, is an estate agent in the Spanish resort. It is understood that her natural father lives in the Irish Republic.
A spokesman for the Civil Guard in Málaga was unable to comment on local reports that a stranger driving a white van had been spotted targeting children in the area.

drug trade was fuelling the gang murders

cocaine trafficking and possession, of the 63 arrested by the OCNFB, 10 were under 25, 15.87 per cent, while 17 of the 47 held for marijuana were younger than 25, 36 per cent. Prime Minister Patrick Manning said the
drug trade was fuelling the gang murders and that his Government was moving to eradicate narcotics smuggling. Police Commissioner Trevor Paul, commenting on the figures, said: "Clearly, some of our youths are in trouble, and if the right measures are not put in place, we may lose a substantial amount of that generation to homicides and the drug trade. I reiterate, all stakeholders need to join with the police to save the youths, some of whom may be our future leaders."

Overall in 2007, the OCNFB seized 166.752 kilos of cocaine and 3,791.54 kilos of marijuana, respectively carrying a street value of $66,696,800 and $22,749,240.
In all, 110 people were arrested for narcotic related crimes, 63 for cocaine and 47 for marijuana.
Of that figure, 80 were locals, the remaining 30 foreigners, all charged for cocaine offences.
The foreigners came from South Africa, the United States, St Vincent, Romania, Latvia, Nigeria, Spain, Holland, Kuwait, Malaysia, Canada and Hungary.
The heliport sub unit of the OCNFB also destroyed 148 marijuana fields, consisting of 162,210 marijuana trees, 15,500 seedlings and 193.95 kilos of cured marijuana.
The unit also destroyed 14 camps, seized 11 trap guns and 31 12-gauge cartridges.
No one was arrested during these raids.
No heroin was seized in 2007.The OCNFB said it is committed to further reducing drug trafficking,

Antonio Mayorga,Jose Luis Garcia

Antonio Mayorga, 19, and Jose Luis Garcia, 23, was booked into the Salt Lake County Jail for investigation of aggravated kidnapping and drug distribution.
Inside the house, detectives found evidence of the victim being tied up, his wallet and other evidence consistent with the story he gave deputies, Jaroscak said.
Detectives from the drug and violent crimes units went to the house where the man said he was held captive, near 3500 South and 7300 West. They set up surveillance and spotted a car in the driveway whose registered owner had a warrant out for robbery, Jaroscak said.
Two men exited the house, drove off in the car and were pulled over a short time later. In the car, investigators found cocaine and a large amount of cash, Jaroscak said.

Christian Aliaga, Edwardo Flores, Christopher Bautista,Yaseth Mendez

Christian Aliaga, 26, of 403 Greenwich Ave., Greenwich, and Christopher Bautista, 19, of 161 Custer St., Stamford, in a running car parked near Bautista's home on the East Side late Thursday, police said.The officers allegedly found a bag on the front seat. Bautista admitted the marijuana was his .During the arrest, Aliaga's cell phone rang several times. An officer picked it up and the caller offered $110 for a quarter ounce of marijuana, Fontneau said.
The alleged buyer, Yaseth Mendez, 24, of 17 Orange St., Stamford, told the officer a friend would make the exchange on Cove Road
Officers saw Bautista apparently trying to hide something under the seat. They approached and smelled marijuana, said Lt. Jon Fontneau, commander of the narcotics and organized crime squad.The two men admitted smoking marijuana but claimed they had none left, police said; one officer spotted two sandwich bags of marijuana in the center console and arrested both men.
Bautista's grandfather gave police permission to search Bautista's bedroom, where they found a lockbox holding what Bautista called "his life savings," Fontneau said. Bautista said about $1,000 inside. Police found $12,620.
They seized the cash along with a bag of marijuana, a digital scale and 62 small plastic bags they found in the room.
Police seized about $1,400 cash found on the suspects, Fontneau said.
Officers then drove to Cove Road and Dale Street, where they spotted Mendez's friend. Officers told Mendez to call the man and have him walk toward their car.
Police arrested Edwardo Flores, 22, of 455 Cove Road, Stamford, and charged him with criminal attempt to possess marijuana and criminal attempt to possess marijuana with intent to sell.
Police seized Flores' cell phone, and, still posing as buyers, called Mendez and asked to meet. Mendez said he was working as a cook at a restaurant on Summer Street, and told the officers to meet him there. He emerged and was arrested.
Police charged Mendez with criminal attempt to possess marijuana and conspiracy to possess marijuana.
A third buyer then called Bautista's phone and asked to buy $10 of marijuana. An officer posed as Bautista and arranged to meet the buyer, Elizabeth Boitano, 25, of 58 Aberdeen St., Stamford, at a restaurant on East Main Street. Officers saw Boitano waiting in her Toyota Camry. She was arrested on a criminal attempt at possessing marijuana charge.
Police charged Aliaga with possession of marijuana, possession of marijuana with intent to sell and conspiracy to possess marijuana.
Bautista was charged with possession of marijuana, possession of marijuana with intent to sell, conspiracy to commit both crimes and operation of a drug factor
Police released every suspect but Bautista after they signed written promises to appear in court. Police released Bautista after he posted $1,000 bond.
All five were scheduled to appear Jan. 17 at state Superior Court in Stamford.

Ramiro Sanchez

Ramiro Sanchez, 56, was arraigned Thursday morning and posted the $2,500 bond. His trial is set for Jan. 10.
Police Detective Sean O'Connell said Sanchez did not resist arrest when they found him lying in his bed at his home at 524 Howland St. around 10 p.m.
During a search of the residence, authorities discovered an 11-unit-dosage of suspected heroin wrapped in tin foil. Also found on the scene was $57 of suspected drug money, suspected morphine tablets and drug paraphernalia. The Toledo Drug Task Force and two K-9 units assisted in the arrest.

Mark Speight

Mark Speight, dialled 999 to report Collins's death on Thursday, was held initially on suspicion of murder and of supplying a class A drug and was later released on bail after being questioned at a central London police station. A statement issued by his solicitor Nabeel Sheikh said: "Mark has been questioned by the police on account of the fact that the body of his fiancee, Natasha Collins, was found in the flat they shared.
"At the moment no-one knows what happened. Mark found her body in the bathroom and immediately called an ambulance and the police. "He has been bailed to return to a central London police station on a date in February."

Alfurgan Simon

Alfurgan Simon, of Newark, was convicted in July of conspiring to distribute more than 2.2 pounds of heroin and possessing the drug with the intent to distribute it.
At least 18 people died in Allegheny County from heroin laced with fentanyl, a drug that is legally used as a powerful painkiller for cancer patients.
Prosecutors say Simon's drugs were sold by a Pittsburgh ring from June to November 2006. The drugs were labeled "Get High or Die Trying" and "Burnout."

Rachel Franklin

Friday, 4 January 2008

British woman has been arrested in Peru on suspicion of carrying cocaine in her luggage.Rachel Franklin stopped at Lima's Jorge Chavez Airport on Sunday evening as she attempted to board a flight to Madrid, allegedly with nearly 9lb (4kg) of the drug in her baggage.

Ijaz Ahmed,Mohammed Iqbal,Mohammed Akseem,Manir Khan, Fazal Hussain,Mohammed Akseem

Ijaz Ahmed, aged 29, of Chester Street, Werneth, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to import class A drugs and conspiracy to supply class A drugs and has been sentenced to nine years and six months in prison for each offence to run concurrently.
Mohammed Iqbal, aged 40, of Cambridge Street, Werneth pleaded guilty to conspiracy to import class A drugs and conspiracy to supply class A drugs and has been sentenced to seven years in prison for each offence to run concurrently.
Fazal Hussain, aged 40, of Cranbrook Street, Oldham, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to supply class A drugs and was sentenced to six years in prison on Monday 19 November 2007.
Mohammed Akseem, aged 39, of Brompton Street, Glodwick pleaded guilty to possession of class A drugs with intent to supply and was sentenced to six years and six months in prison on Monday 19 November 2007.
Manir Khan, aged 37, of Heron Street, Hollinwood, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to import class A drugs and conspiracy to supply class A drugs and was sentenced to eight years in prison for each offence to run concurrently on Monday 19 November 2007
Akseem was sentenced to 8 years in prison at Reading Crown Court back in February 1998 for importing heroin through Heathrow Airport.

Fariz Rustam Munaf

Noted singer tried on charges of possessing hashish

Fariz Rustam Munaf began to stand trial at the South Jakarta district court on Wednesday on charges of possessing hashish.
Fariz was caught in possession of one-and-a-half hand-rolled hashish cigarettes, or joints in Kebayoran Baru, South Jakarta, on Oct 28.
If found guilty, he could be sentenced to a maximum of four years in jail.

French geology researcher at National Taiwan University

Taipei prosecutors said a French geology researcher at National Taiwan University (NTU) was under investigation for receiving a package from France believed to contain marijuana seeds.
Police said the Taipei Customs Office last Monday received an air express package containing a bag of seeds that they suspect are seeds of the marijuana plant.
The customs office then contacted Taipei police.
Police on Thursday arrested the French national at his residence in Taipei after his wife received the bag of seeds from the delivery company.
The suspect told police the seeds were for green beans used in various meat dishes in his hometown, authorities said. He told police the bag of seeds was sent by his parents.
Taipei prosecutors on Thursday night released the man without bail, saying the seeds would be examined.
Transporting marijuana seeds is punishable by up to two years in prison.
NTU spokesman Fu Li-chen (傅立成) told reporters that the man had performed research at the university for four years.
The man is a trusted colleague and the school believes the police have made a mistake, Fu said.

Roline Espraguera,Ronualdo Gador, Ringi dela Cerna,Romnick Callao

Uprooted and confiscated 47 full-grown marijuana plants and seedlings, during a raid in Barangay Dalaupon, a mountainous and remote area, about 20 kilometers from the Tayasan town proper.
They also seized a full plastic bag of newly-harvested marijuana flower buds with leaves and a coin box containing dried marijuana leaves and seeds from Rengi de la Zerna, Roline Espraguera, Romnick Callao and Ronualdo Gador, all of Dalaupon.
Buenafe said a case for violation of Republic Act 9165, or the Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Act, specifically for the cultivation of marijuana, will be filed in court against the suspects.
SK chairman Ringi dela Cerna denied the allegations and claimed he was not aware that planting marijuana is illegal under the law.
He said that he just knew that marijuana is a medicinal plant for stomachache. Records, showed though, that all of the confiscated marijuana plants were found on land owned by the Dela Cernas.
Arrested along with De la Cerna were Roline Espraguera, Romnick Callao and Ronualdo Gador. At least 47 seedlings were uprooted during the joint operation of the PNP Provincial Command, Ayungon police station, 705th Mobile Group, and 61st IB of the Philippine Army in Tayasan.
PNP provincial director, S/Supt. Melvin Buenafe, said they will continue to monitor the area in Tayasan and Guihulngan towns where there are reports of marijuana plantations.
He said that in early April, they received reports that some residents in Barangay Dalaupon harvested 300 full-grown marijuana plants and reportedly delivered them to some parts of the province.

Buenafe said most of the areas planted with marijuana are secluded and are purposely hidden under shrubs or mixed with other crops.

He said this kind of business is growing boldly in these areas as some suspects are reportedly selling marijuana during agri-trade fairs every weekends, in Barangay Nabilog, in Tayasan.

Meanwhile, the Philippine National Police Provincial command will conduct an in-depth investigation to determine the identity of a certain "Nilo" who allegedly supplied the marijuana seeds in Tayasan, Buenafe added.

Julian Pompa

Julian Pompa w/m D.O.B. 2-17-75 charge Poss. Controlled Substances PG 1,[= 4 ] 200 grams. Bond $10,000, plus warrants out of Navarro County for Motion to Revoke Probation, No bond.

Debra Anneler

Debra Anneler w/f D.O.B. 9-28-74, single charge Poss. Controlled Substances PG 1,[= 4 ] 200 grams. Bond $10,000.

Robert Brown

Robert Brown w/m D.O.B. 10-6-38 single charge Poss. Controlled Substances PG 1,[= 4 ] 200 grams. Bond $10,000

Thomas Phillips

Thomas Phillips w/m D.O.B. 2-7-78, single charge Poss. Controlled Substances PG 1,[= 4 ] 200 grams. Bond $10,000.

Christopher Meuse

Christopher Meuse w/m D.O.B. 9-12-80, charged with Poss. Controlled Substances PG 1,[= 4 ] 200 grams. Bond $10,000.

Jeffrey Neuse

Jeffrey Neuse w/m D.O.B. 2-4-83, charged with Poss. Controlled Substances PG 1, [= 4 ] 200 grams. Bond $10,000 plus outstanding warrants for Failure to Identify Fugitive from Justice, Bond $3000 also, charged with Poss. Marijuana over 2oz. Bond $10,000.

Brandy Beshears

Brandy Beshears w/f D.O.B. 2-18-83, charged with Poss. Controlled Substances PG 1, [ =4 ] 200 grams. Bond $10,000.

Heath Hendley

Heath Hendley w/m D.O.B. 5-15-80, owner of said residence. Charged with Poss. Controlled Substances PG 1, [= 4 ] 200 grams. Bond $10,000.

Devon J. Thomas

Devon J. Thomas, 34, 1079 Maplewood Ave., on a charge of sale of a controlled drug (marijuana). Bail was set at $2,500 personal recognizance, and his court date is Jan. 28.

Eddie C. Thomas Jr

Eddie C. Thomas Jr., 44, 114 Ledgewood Drive, Apt. 6, on a charge of sale of a narcotic drug (crack cocaine). Bail was set at $2,500 personal recognizance, and his court date is Jan. 28.

Antonio T. Peppers

Antonio T. Peppers, 47, 252 Dennett St., on charges of sale of a controlled drug and conspiracy to sell a controlled drug (marijuana). Bail was set at $5,000 personal recognizance, and his court date is Feb. 4.

Bradley D. Paradise

Bradley D. Paradise, 40, 1338 Woodbury Ave., on four charges of unlawful sale of a narcotic drug (heroin). Bail was set at $5,000 personal recognizance, and his court date is Feb. 4.

Corey M. Lee,

Corey M. Lee, 23, 579 State St., Apt. 3, on two charges of sale of a controlled drug (marijuana). Bail was set at $2,500 personal recognizance, and his court date is Jan. 28.

Mark D. Lynch

Mark D. Lynch, 37, 579 State St., Apt. 2, on four charges of unlawful sale of a controlled drug and on charge of possession of a controlled drug (marijuana). Bail was set at $10,750 personal recognizance or $750 personal recognizance, and his court date is Jan. 28.

Ethan W. Brown

Ethan W. Brown, 49, 579 State St., Apt. 4, on a charge of conspiracy to sell a controlled drug (marijuana). Bail was set at $2,500 personal recognizance, and his court date is Jan. 28.

Hussein Karimi Rikabadi (update) Extradition of Iranian Heroin Trafficker To New York

According to the Indictment filed in Manhattan federal court: Since 1998, KARIMI led an international heroin trafficking organization (the "Rikabadi Organization") responsible for the worldwide distribution of thousands of kilograms of Southwest Asian heroin. The Rikabadi Organization purchased heroin from suppliers in Afghanistan and Pakistan, and arranged for the heroin to be transported through various countries including Iran and Turkey. The Rikabadi Organization’s heroin was imported into the United States, Canada, and Western European countries and sold for hundreds of millions of dollars. KARIMI controlled the heroin-trafficking activities of his organization from locations in Romania. KARIMI was arrested in March 2007 while attempting to cross from Austria to the Republic of Azerbaijan.
The extradition was the result of the cooperative efforts of the United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York, the DEA, and the United States Marshals Service, working together under the auspices of the New York Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Strike Force" (Strike Force)

Patrick Mason

Patrick Mason, 41, of Newark, was charged with possession of heroin and cocaine, resisting arrest and tampering with evidence, and was taken to the county jail on $50,000 cash bail.

Anthony Saxon

Anthony Saxon, 44, of Mays Landing, was charged with sale of a controlled dangerous substance, possession of heroin, possession with intent to distribute, possession in a school zone and possession in a housing complex and taken to the county jail on $50,000 cash bail.

Evelyn Johnson

Evelyn Johnson, 36, of Atlantic City, was charged with sale of heroin, possession of heroin, possession with intent to distribute, possession in a school zone and possession in a housing complex, and was

Kasan Hayes

Kasan Hayes, 21, of Atlantic City was charged with sale of heroin and cocaine, possession of heroin and cocaine, possession with intent to distribute, possession within 1,000 feet of a school, possession in a housing unit. He was taken to the Atlantic County jail on $100,000 cash bail.

Kaleem Toulson

Kaleem Toulson, 18, of Atlantic City, was charged with possession of heroin, possession with intent to distribute, possession in a school zone and possession within a housing complex and was taken to the county jail on $75,000 cash bail.

Drug lab east of Rockhampton

Three men and a woman have been caught in a drug lab east of Rockhampton, police says.
Emu Park police and the Rockhampton Tactical Crime Squad executed a search warrant at the Rundle Beach Road home at Thompson Beach about 8am (AEST) Thursday where they allegedly found an active laboratory.
Four people at the house at the time were arrested and charged with production of a dangerous drug.
One man, 27 of Norman Gardens, will appear at Rockhampton Magistrates Court.
Three others, a 49-year-old man and a 25-year-old woman, both from Norman Gardens, and a 51-year-old man from Thompson's Point, will appear at Rockhampton Magistrates Court on January 22.
The home has been secured as a crime scene while the State Crime Operations Command's ILIT (Illicit Laboratory Investigation Team) will dismantle the drug laboratory.

Ronald Etheridge Jr, Angelina Marie Remillard

Ronald Etheridge Jr., 30, and Angelina Marie Remillard, 27, for more than a month – leading up to the arrests.
Investigators pulled the pair over near the Fred Meyer at Franklin and Orchard at 1 p.m. Wednesday – and began a search of the car. They found a pound of marijuana worth about $4,400 on the street.
Police then searched an apartment at 1187 N. Liberty #802 – and found another two ounces of marijuana, scales, packaging materials and other paraphernalia.
Etheridge is charged with trafficking a controlled substance and delivery of a controlled substance – felony charges. Remillard is charged with delivery of a controlled substance, also a felony.

bra used to smuggle £100,000 of cocaine into Britain

The bra used to smuggle £100,000 of cocaine into Britain
When a slim but busty woman was stopped as she tried to enter Britain, Customs officers discovered a new item of underwear - the Plunderbra.
With secret pouches placed in each cup, up to £50,000 worth of cocaine can be concealed as traffickers seek ever more inventive ways of smuggling drugs.
It is discovered only if the trafficker is strip-searched or asked to go through a scanner.
Pictures of the modified lingerie show the lengths to which traffickers will go to bring cocaine into Britain from West Africa, in particular Ghana.
Other examples revealed yesterday include hollowed-out coat hangers, which can each contain £5,000 worth of cocaine, converted buttons, curtain beads, shoes and suitcases.
Tins of fruit juice, rum bottles and toiletries are also used - as are clothes which have been soaked in the drug.
Without doubt the most dangerous technique involves the trafficker swallowing vast quantities of cocaine to avoid detection.
One recent case involved a drugs mule from Nigeria consuming 100 plastic bags shaped like cocktail sausages, each containing 12 grams of cocaine with a total street value of £60,000.

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