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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Pakistani held with 98 heroin packs in stomach
2009-12-09
[Dawn] Thai customs officials said Tuesday they had arrested a Pakistani man at Bangkok's main international airport with 98 aluminium foil packages in his stomach containing more than a kilo of heroin.

Chaudhry Ijaz Rasul, 34, was arrested as he attempted to clear customs at Suvarnabhumi Airport early Monday morning on a Thai Airways flight from Lahore in Pakistan.

'He has swallowed 98 small packages of heroin which were wrapped in aluminium foil,' a senior customs official told AFP.

The authorities forced Rasul to go to the toilet to expel the drugs, which weighed 1.3 kilograms with a street value of approximately 3.9 million baht (117,750 dollars), the official said.

'He confessed that he was asked to smuggle the drugs and that a man would come to pick them up from a hotel in Bangkok,' he added.

Rasul was charged with possession and trafficking of class A drugs, which carries a possible death sentence in Thailand.
Saw something like this every once in a while as a resident: 'packers' would swallow latex balloons filled with cocaine and come into the country, then drive up I-95. If the balloons started to leak they'd end up in an emergency room along the way, occasionally ours, with unremitting seizures followed by death. Not a happy way to go.
Posted by:Fred

#3  Must be desperate, when you get to the delivery, what if your delivers won't wait for nature to take it's course and employ a blade?
Posted by: Redneck Jim   2009-12-09 11:43  

#2  Aluminum foil? Whose bright idea was that? Never heard of metal detectors, I guess.
Posted by: Spot   2009-12-09 08:01  

#1  Another Taliban/Al Quaeda supporter - whether he realizes it or not.
Posted by: Glenmore   2009-12-09 07:53  

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