9 Sep, 2020 @ 15:42
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Drug mule excretes 59 capsules of cocaine in week of drug trafficking crackdown at Malaga airport on Spain’s Costa del Sol

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A DRUG mule was forced to excrete 59 capsules of cocaine after being rumbled at Malaga airport this week.

Guardia Civil were monitoring passengers arriving from outside the EU when they noticed an agitated and nervous Nigerian passenger.

After a brief questioning, the individual was sent for an X-ray, the results of which suggested they were carrying ‘foreign objects’ which could be narcotics inside their body.

After expelling a total of 59 capsules, weighing 969.3 grams, they were tested and found to contain cocaine and the suspect was arrested.

Cocaine Capsules
EXPELLED: Nigerian had 59 capsules of cocaine inside their body

It came during a week of arrests at the airport, the second of which took place on September 1 and involved three passengers arriving from Gran Canaria.

Their suitcases were put through an X-ray machine and several suspicious packages were identified.

Following a search, the large bundles were found to contain hashish, with a total weight of 70.1kg.

Drugs In Suitcase
BUSTED: Hashish found in suitcase at Malaga airport

All three have been arrested and charged with drug trafficking.

On September 3, a suspected suitcase set to fly to Rotterdam in Holland was marked as potentially containing drugs.

Its owner was tracked down just as he was boarding his flight and the suitcase was searched and found to contain hashish in pill format.

The Spaniard was arrested and charged.

Laurence Dollimore

Laurence Dollimore is a Spanish-speaking, NCTJ-trained journalist with almost a decade’s worth of experience.
The London native has a BA in International Relations from the University of Leeds and and an MA in the same subject from Queen Mary University London.
He earned his gold star diploma in multimedia journalism at the prestigious News Associates in London in 2016, before immediately joining the Olive Press at their offices on the Costa del Sol.
After a five-year stint, Laurence returned to the UK to work as a senior reporter at the Mail Online, where he remained for two years before coming back to the Olive Press as Digital Editor in 2023.
He continues to work for the biggest newspapers in the UK, who hire him to investigate and report on stories in Spain.
These include the Daily Mail, Telegraph, Mail Online, Mail on Sunday and The Sun and Sun Online.
He has broken world exclusives on everything from the Madeleine McCann case to the anti-tourism movement in Tenerife.

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