Drug dealers use minors as 'mules'

Panaji: The first charter flight will fly into Goa in the first week of October effectively kick- starting the tourist season. The small state in Western India, a former hippie paradise in the late 60's and 70's, welcomed some 3.5 million foreign tourists last season. And with the advent of the new season a host of challenges and ills lay in wait - one of them drugs.
Goa is not just an epicenter where drugs are sold at rave and trance parties but in recent years it has become one of the transit point from where drugs are shipped out to various European countries and is also a production centre for synthetic party drugs.
And in keeping with the trend of the world wide leaders in drug-smuggling coming up with innovated ideas to escape the long arm of law, the drug lords based in Goa are using young minor children (both boys and girls) to be "mules" and carbonized suitcases to ship their drugs to Europe.
The recent arrest of a Nigerian national at the Mumbai airport trying to smuggle drugs out of the country brings into focus the newer and novel ways the drug smugglers have been restoring to in recent times.
10/09/07 Mangalorean.com

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Categories: Airports Sep 2007