Friday, June 17, 2011

Nigerian man arrested at airport passes 3 pounds of heroin

A 54-year-old Nigerian man was arrested on Saturday after allegedly smuggling 97 heroin pellets into Washington Dulles International Airport.

Customs and Border Protection officers say they were tipped off by inconsistencies in Rasheed Adewale Martins' story while he was being interviewed at the airport.



An X-ray revealed that he had foreign objects inside his body.

After several days of ingesting laxatives, Martins passed the 97 thumb-sized pellets that weighed 3 pounds, 2 ounces, (1,431.6 grams), which have a combined street value of about $100,000, officials say.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

This guy should enter the Nathan's hotdog eating contest at Coney Island...coming up July 4 !