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Cocaine swallower excretes more pellets

Mar 04, 2009 News

Hospital officials have confirmed that Jamaican national, Richard Gayle, was still excreting packets containing cocaine up late press time yesterday. Kaieteur News understands that the man excreted a quantity of packets yesterday morning and has hinted to police that he still has more packets of cocaine inside of him.
On Monday, Gayle had excreted 53 packets of cocaine.
The Jamaican was nabbed at the airport last Thursday as he was about to board a flight to Trinidad and Tobago. Gayle was taken into custody around 05:00 hours by the Police Narcotics Unit, under the suspicion that he had ingested pellets containing cocaine for the intent of trafficking.
He was taken to the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) where X-rays of his abdomen showed several foreign objects in his stomach.
He had arrived in Guyana on February 26.
During his departure he was searched by the Customs Anti-Narcotics Unit (CANU).
Their initial search uncovered no drugs on his person, but Gayle was later detained by the Police Narcotics Unit.
A few weeks ago another Jamaican national, Errol Barrett, spent three days at the GPHC before finally excreting the pellets containing the illicit substance. None of the pellets containing the drug ruptured in his stomach.
Over the last few years, several drug mules have died when the pellets containing the drugs they were trafficking ruptured while still inside of them.

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