Jamaica's Police Get More 'Mules' to Cough Up Drugs. Carol J. Williams.
by Williams, Carol J; ProQuest Information and Learning Company.
Series: SIRS Enduring Issues 2004Article 77Health. Publisher: Los Angeles Times, 2003ISSN: 1522-323X;.Subject(s): Drug couriers | Drug traffic -- Caribbean Area | Jamaica -- Politics and government | Narcotics -- Control of -- Caribbean Area | Scanning systems | SmugglersDDC classification: 050 Summary: "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."| Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due |
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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."
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