Drug Cartels Target Bots Airport
Monday, September 19, 2016
Two days after a middle aged woman was arrested at the airport in possession of different packages of cocaine, weighing 4kg, another woman was caught again at the airport with 15kg of another habit forming drug, a controlled drug called ephedrine, whose importation into the country requires the Ministry of Health’s permit.
The two South African females who were allegedly used as conduits were detained and appeared in court on Thursday last week, according to the Botswana Police, who describe cocaine as the second most abused drugs with rock or crack cocaine as the most abused.
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