Tuesday, October 17, 2006
Curry hurries drug mule
Curry fighting crime - is there anything it can't do?
Curry hurries drug mule
October 17, 2006
MALAYSIAN police fed a spicy curry to a Zambian drug courier to hasten the passage of a bellyful of heroin that he swallowed to smuggle from Burma.
The New Straits Times reported today that the 27-year-old, who had flown to Malaysia on Friday, was given curry, bananas and some oily roti canai flat bread before expelling 210g of the drug.
"We waited 24 hours before the suspect passed the 37 tubes, which were filled with pure heroin," it quoted Penang state police chief Christopher Wan as saying.
The daily quoted police as saying they believed the suspect was a member of an international drug syndicate headed by a Malaysian who they were trying to locate.
