drug trafficking

Eight Nigerians have been sentenced to five to eight years by Cambodia's Phnom Penh Municipal Court on Monday for drug trafficking. 

                       

According to the presiding judge Khy Chhai, the eight men "were charged with illegally trafficking drug substances under the Article 40 of the Law on Drug Control," and will all be deported from the country after there jail time.

                        

A Cambodian woman who conspired with the men was sentenced to eight years too,and the men have been asked to pay 2,500 and 3,500 U.S. dollars as fines.

                     

All the drug traffickers were arrested in February 2015 during a police raid, and at the time of the arrest, the men had with them 0.8 kg of crystal methamphetamine and scales.

They have a month to appeal the court verdict

                

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A Nigerian, Ejiogu Benjamin Ikechukwu, who was sentenced to death in August 2013, has been relieved of the death penalty, but instead sentenced to life. Ikechukwu was arrested at the Tan Son Nhat airport in Saigon, after the custom officers caught him with 3.3 kilograms of methamphetamine in tubes and laptop charger in his luggage.

Ikechukwu who had transited in Qatar in his defence claimed that the he had helped someone in Qatar bring the tubes and the luggage. The person in Qatar had said someone in Vietnam would meet him to collect the items, and he had no idea it was illegal drugs.

                 

               Ejiogu Benjamin Ikechukwu standing trial for his case in Saigon. Photo courtesy : Dan Tri

He said he was only coming to buy some clothes in will later take back to Nigeria, as other Nigerians always do, he never knew he was being used as a drug mule, Ikechukwu claimed.

In 2013, a court in Ho Chi Minh sentenced him to death, disregarding his claim, but Ikechukwu appealed the judgement.

The  People's Supreme Court then cancelled the verdict, and order a new investigation into his case. As investigators could not track down the person who had used Ikechukwu as a drug mule, the court then reduced his death sentence to life imprisonment.

Vietnam is a country that frowns against drug smuggling, and smugglers convicted of more than 600 grams of heroin or more than 2.5 kilograms faces the death penalty, and also production or sale of 100 grams of heroin or 300 grams of other illegal drugs/narcotics is also punishable by death.

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Police in Arizona have arrested 3 drug smugglers, Miranda Baldonado, Sarah Valencia, Michael Torrez after they found a pound of heroin in the car they were travelling with.

According to the local sheriff's office, "They were unable to answer the most basic of questions that a group of passengers sharing a destination would commonly know."

         

                       From left :  Miranda Baldonado, Sarah Valencia,Michael Torrez

The car had 2 females and a male, and investigations later revealed that the 2 ladies had heroin wrapped in their private area, while Torrez was a parole, also for a drug conviction n New Mexico.

While police helped Valencia removed the heroin wrapped in a condom, Baldonado had problems removing the heroin and taken to the hospital.

The 3 were charged with drug possession and transportation of narcotics. Baldonado and Valencia were also charged with evidence tampering.

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