A Nigerian drug peddler’s effort to befool the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) sleuths fell flat on his flat, as the NCB – though the doctors’ intervention --had a dozen of Cocaine pellets extracted from abdominal cavity where they had reached after he had gulped seeing the agency officials come to arrest him.
The NCB said here on Monday that the incident took place on January 14 when its officials zeroed in on the accused Nigerian Ifeamyichukwu Pius moving around a five-star hotel at Juhu to deliver pellets containing Cocaine.
At that time, Pius had concealed Cocaine pellets in his mouth. Seeing the NCB officials rush towards him, the accused peddler gulped a dozen pellets – containing 1 gram each of Cocaine and the Cocaine pellets landed in his stomach.
Without losing any time, the NCB officials rushed him to J J Hospital, where an x-ray and CT scan examination confirmed that the pellets were lodged in his abdominal cavity,The doctors extracted the dozen pellets from his abdomen. The retrieved cocaine pellets were handed over to the NCB officials.
“Accused Nigerian drug peddler was discharged from the hospital today. We are trying to ascertain his antecedents and also who are his associates in Mumbai,” NCB’s Zonal Director Sameer Wankhede said.
This is the first instance where a peddler was carrying drugs in his mouth and distributing them to the customers.