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Tourist gets jail for smuggling drugs in belly

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tourist has been jailed for seven years for smuggling 93 drug capsules in his intestines, excreting them in a hotel where he packed them in juice boxes and readied them for sale.

Acting upon a tipoff from an informant, Dubai Police’s Anti-Narcotics Department officers raided a hotel room in Deira where the 32-year-old Nigerian tourist had checked in during April, where they found a bag containing methamphet­amine capsules packed in juice boxes. (Staff Report)

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