Well it seems drug traffickers are constantly evolving in their methods to sneak drugs into the country. On Tuesday, DCI detectives seized narcotics worth millions of shillings at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport. The method used to sneak in the drugs? You wouldn’t have guessed it, Via a carton containing make up kits! Cry ladies, its allowed.
The narcotics which comprised of heroin and methamphetamine were destined for New Zealand and China. Whether they were manufactured in the country or not remains unclear but atleast they were captured in the end.
The DCI has already launched investigations to find those behind the trafficking. Barely for months ago, about 20 kilograms of drugs suspected to be heroin were intercepted at JKIA which were concealed as Kericho Gold tea.
KRA agents on August 1 also seized 26 vape cartridges filled with cannabis oil and five one-gram sachets of hashish.They were hidden in a package of vitamin tablets sent through a courier service provider and declared as candy.
Still on drugs, the now infamous Mexican drug Lord ‘El Chapo’ started on Tuesday.
The New York trial opened Monday under huge security for Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, one of the world’s most notorious criminals accused of spending a quarter of a century smuggling cocaine into the United States.
The defendant accused of running the massive Sinaloa drug cartel, observed the first day of jury selection dressed in a navy suit, white shirt with a wide disco-style collar, flashing a smile but otherwise impervious.
Last year, Mexico witnessed a record 29,000 murders. In the United States, opioid addiction has spiraled into an epidemic. In 2016, an average of 174 Americans died every day from drug overdoses.
Guzman has been held in solitary confinement since Mexico extradited him in January 2017, one day before Donald Trump took office. He spends 23 hours a day in his cell.
The only visitors he is allowed are his lawyers and twin, seven-year-old daughters, from whom he is separated by thick glass.
The judge has banned his 29-year-old beauty queen wife, Emma Coronel, from visiting. As jury selection is being held behind closed doors, she did not attend Monday.
Arrested for the first time in Guatemala in 1993, El Chapo spent more than seven years in a Mexican prison before his first escape in 2001.
Re-arrested in February 2014, he escaped again 14 months later.