Police in Sao Paulo have found what gave the impression to be a drug mule ring within the western a part of the town
ByThe Related Press
November 23, 2023, 4:10 PM
RIO DE JANEIRO — Police in Sao Paulo on Thursday detained greater than 30 people belonging to what gave the impression to be a drug mule ring within the metropolis’s western space, authorities stated.
Officers arrested a 24 year-old man and detained 33 different people who had been transporting ingested medication to Europe, the state’s public safety secretary stated in a press release.
Police acted on a tip acquired via a hotline a few property within the Vila Sonia neighborhood, in western Sao Paulo, the place dozens of individuals lived and — allegedly — labored as drug mules.
Through the operation, police seized about 20 passports, work paperwork and dozens of tightly packed, oval formed cocaine capsules.
Lots of the suspects confessed to having already taken a number of journeys overseas.
Native media, citing the federal police, reported the mules acquired coaching to ingest the drug capsules. ____
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