A mule or courier is someone who personally smuggles contraband across a border (as opposed to sending by mail, etc.) for a smuggling organization.
This project proposes the following definition of "drug mule:" a drug courier who is paid, coerced, or tricked into transporting drugs across an international border, but who has no further commercial interest in the drugs.
The reasons mainly concern their lack of economic opportunities to make a living to support them- selves and their families in a vastly unequal society. While some drug mules have materialistic aspirations, others are driven by poverty and the wish to provide their children with a better life than they had.
Among the drug mules caught at the California ports of entry, we find that the mean reported compensation amount is $1,604 and the median is $1,313. Whether this is a lot or a little is a matter of opinion.
In at least some cases, DTOs also use cattle as drug mules. DTOs take their cows across smuggling routes and borders, packing drugs in their reproductive organs and other body cavities.
The balloons are made with multilayered condoms and are often force fed to the victim. The traffickers use a special machine to open the condom and put drugs into it. On many occasions, the drug mules are first given a soup laced with drugs to numb their throats.
Dogs used as drug mules to smuggle heroin into U.S., vet sentenced for implanting drugs into puppies. A veterinarian who was extradited to the United States has been sentenced to six years in prison for implanting liquid heroin into puppies to get the drugs into the country.
Penalty for trafficking
They depend on the quantity you have and how old you are. The maximum penalty for an adult is; 15 years jail and/or a fine of up to 1,800 penalty units, or. 25 years jail and/or 3,000 penalty units for trafficking a commercial quantity of an illegal drug.
Drug couriers are individuals that use a variety of means to transport illegal drugs, typically across state borders, such as the Mexican-American border.
(WLS) -- Even though Leo Sharp was a champion grower of Daylilies and a decorated World War II veteran, he was also known for something unlikely to end up on his tombstone: he was the world's oldest drug mule.
Body packing is the smuggling of illicit drugs using the human body as a vehicle. Individual packets of 8 to 12 g of a drug (usually cocaine or heroin) are wrapped with waterproof materials, such as latex glove fingers2 or condoms,3 then sealed.
Abstract. Drugs ingested into the body are transported through the plasma membrane several times. Although hydrophobic low molecules may penetrate the cell membrane according to simple diffusion, most drugs need carrier proteins named transporters for their trans-membrane transport.
Terminology. A female mule that has oestrus cycles, and so could, in theory, carry a foetus, is called a "molly" or "Molly mule", although the term is sometimes used to refer to female mules in general.
"White pony" is street slang for cocaine.
Sex: Male is a 'horse mule' (also known as a 'john' or 'jack'). Female is a 'mare mule' (also known as a 'molly').
The Italian word became cartel in Middle French, which was borrowed into English. In English, the word was originally used for a written agreement between warring nations to regulate the treatment and exchange of prisoners from the 1690s onward.
It is estimated that Pablo Escobar received over $50 million in cash each day through his drug sales. How much Pablo Escobar made a week? At the height of its power, the Medellín cartel dominated the cocaine trade, earning an estimated $420 million a week and making its leader one of the wealthiest people in the world.
Between July 2020 – June 2021, eight of the most used medicines in Australia were for cholesterol lowering and blood pressure lowering. The most used medicine was atorvastatin, used to prevent cardiovascular disease in those at high risk and to treat abnormal lipid levels.
Specific breeds, including German Shepherds, Bloodhounds, and Labrador Retrievers, make great partners for police officers and security guards in large part because of their impressive sense of smell. One of the things that working dogs are trained to sniff out is a variety of drugs and narcotics.
PREFERRED SNIFFER DOG BREEDS
Dogs in demand for drug detection work include English Springer Spaniels, Labrador Retrievers, Golden retrievers, the Belgian Malinois, German Shepherd dogs and Border Collies.