Seized peppers lead to cocaine

Customs

Thursday, April 19, 2012

Stanley Okpara, who was arrested by U.K. Border Force officers as he attempted to collect £13,000 ($20,800) worth of drugs that arrived in a freight shipment from Nigeria through Manchester Airport, was sentenced to seven years in jail. Okpara, a Sierra Leone national, attempted to smuggle peppers stuffed with cocaine in a set of 15 boxes that arrived from Nigeria via Istanbul, Turkey. According to The Mirror and the Manchester Evening News , officials secured the...

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