Customs and Border Protection, or CBP, officers arrested a 61-year-old Nigerian man on Jan. 6 on heroin smuggling allegations at Dulles Airport.
CBP officers detected inconsistencies during their inspection of Adekunle Titus Adetokunbo, court documents allege. Adetokunbo arrived at Dulles from Ghana on Jan. 5.
He was transported to a local hospital, where x-rays indicated the presence of foreign objects inside of him. Adetokunbo expelled 446 grams, or nearly 16 ounces, of pellets, which tested positive for heroin.
The heroin is worth approximately $31,000 on the street.
The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Virginia is prosecuting the Nigerian.
“Heroin is a highly addictive and very dangerous narcotic,” said Christopher Hess, a CBP port director. “Customs and Border Protection officers take very serious their mission to intercept this deadly poison before it can reach our community.”
Officers turned Adetokunbo and the narcotics over to Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, agents. ICE will continue the investigation.
Davedave would rather keep his head buried in the sand hoping that the drug problem goes away.
You get it pops!
You ignorance to the sources of drug shipments is the reason why all these drugs slip through our borders, along with 15/million illegals. If it looks like a duck, quacks like a duck, and walks like a duck, chances are, it is a duck. Apply that logic to people from certain countries and you’ll uncover a lot more illegal activities.
Wow, what a progressive and open-minded idea Robert Smith. Too bad eugenic programs aren’t around anymore; simpletons such as yourself should be forcibly sterilized before you have the opportunity to spread your feeble chromosomes. You are the reason mothers eat their young.
good choice of words..“expelled” haha
Anybody who arrives from any country in Africa or South America should be strip searched.
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