Birmingham Airport drugs mule jailed
22.12.09
A man who was caught at Birmingham Airport trying to smuggle 28 packages of heroin into the country after swallowing each of them has been jailed for nine-years.
Mohammed Asif Choudary, 35, of Newtown Street, Leicester, was stopped at Birmingham Airport by UK Border Agency officers when he arrived on a flight from Islamabad, Pakistan, on June 11. He had swallowed around 138 grams of heroin in 28 small packages, with an estimated value of around £22,500.
He was charged with drug smuggling offences under the Customs and Excise Management Act 1979, and with possession of a Section 1 firearm and ammunition, in connection with a sawn-off shotgun and 49 rounds of ammunition found during a subsequent search of his former home.
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