Updated: Drug courier arraigned
Updated:
A Venezuela-born man holding a Spanish passport, Gerardo Jose Ruiz Pena, 45, this afternoon admitted in court to association to import drugs and being in possession of heroin.
He was taken to court after the police found him in possession of 83 capsules in his stomach containing 830 grams of heroin.
He was arrested with a female companion at the airport on Friday after arriving on a flight from Düsseldorf. No drugs were found on the woman.
This was the second such arrest by the police and the Customs Department in a week.
Mr Pena was remanded in custody and will now appear before a judge for sentencing.
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Joe Xuereb
Sep 27th 2009, 19:05
Is it possible for the supplier to lead the police to the trafficker? The demand must be eradicated and a trafficker might know the users of this lethal drug. At times drug abuse is found in the most unlikely places. Muling has started in Brussels this week and now Dusseldorf. Could controls at point of origin be tightened? These mules carrying lethal drugs in their stomach are mulishly stupid. The Maltese authorities must be after them with mulish tenacity. They are doing a good job but they also need as much co-operation as is possible. Young lives are at risk. And dying for a prize horse is never worth it. Never mind a mule.
Joanne Micallef
Sep 27th 2009, 11:56
A HUGE well done to our police and customs department