Williams, Carol J.,
Jamaica's Police Get More 'Mules' to Cough Up Drugs. Carol J. Williams. - Los Angeles Times, 2003. - SIRS Enduring Issues 2004. Article 77, Health, 1522-323X; .
Articles Contained in SIRS Enduring Issues 2004. Originally Published: Jamaica's Police Get More 'Mules' to Cough Up Drugs, Aug. 8, 2003; pp. A3.
"Little more than a year ago, so many poor Jamaicans were swallowing sealed drug packets before boarding planes to Britain that at least 60 a week were being arrested at Heathrow Airport and a London tabloid branded Jamaica's national airline 'Cocaine Air.'" (LOS ANGELES TIMES) The author contends that "high-tech screening equipment at Jamaica's two international airports has so vastly improved detection of people who swallow or stash drugs elsewhere in their bodies that this country's notorious 'drug mules' are becoming an endangered species."
1522-323X;
Drug couriers
Drug traffic--Caribbean Area
Narcotics--Control of--Caribbean Area
Scanning systems
Smugglers
Jamaica--Politics and government
AC1.S5
050
Jamaica's Police Get More 'Mules' to Cough Up Drugs. Carol J. Williams. - Los Angeles Times, 2003. - SIRS Enduring Issues 2004. Article 77, Health, 1522-323X; .
Articles Contained in SIRS Enduring Issues 2004. Originally Published: Jamaica's Police Get More 'Mules' to Cough Up Drugs, Aug. 8, 2003; pp. A3.
"Little more than a year ago, so many poor Jamaicans were swallowing sealed drug packets before boarding planes to Britain that at least 60 a week were being arrested at Heathrow Airport and a London tabloid branded Jamaica's national airline 'Cocaine Air.'" (LOS ANGELES TIMES) The author contends that "high-tech screening equipment at Jamaica's two international airports has so vastly improved detection of people who swallow or stash drugs elsewhere in their bodies that this country's notorious 'drug mules' are becoming an endangered species."
1522-323X;
Drug couriers
Drug traffic--Caribbean Area
Narcotics--Control of--Caribbean Area
Scanning systems
Smugglers
Jamaica--Politics and government
AC1.S5
050