Zimbabwean Woman Arrested At Airport With $30k Worth Of Cocaine
4 January 2019
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Correspondent|A Zimbabwean woman was on Wednesday arrested at the Robert Mugabe International Airport while trying to smuggle drugs worth US$30 000 from India.

The woman, who was aboard an Ethiopian Airways plane, was searched by detectives from CID drugs and Narcotics Harare, and found in possession of 18 x 500-gram tins containing ephedrine.

The 33-year-old woman, identified as Judith Munemo was arrested after a tip-off by some unknown persons. She was subsequently charged with contravening the Medicines and Allied Substances Control Act.

Munemo pleaded guilty to the charges when she appeared before Harare magistrate Learnmore Mapiye. She begged for the court’s mercy:

“I plead guilty to the charges. I did not know what I was doing was unlawful. It was out of ignorance, but I badly needed to raise money for my livelihood.”

“I was going to hand over the drug to someone and I was only going to get $US2 000 after it was sold.”

In mid-December, another Zimbabwean woman was arrested at a Ghana airport with a stash of drugs.

The Narcotics Control Board (NACOB) of Ghana has arrested 30 year old Cynthia Lichonjaat the Kotoka International Airport (KIA) for trafficking illicit drug.

She was arrested when she disembarked from Ethiopian Airways flight No. ET 921.

Ms. Lichonja was accosted while going through arrival formalities.

A search in her checked-in luggage in her presence led to the discovery of Seven (7) parcels of brownish powdery substances suspected to be narcotics, concealed in false compartments of the suitcase.

The substance when tested proved positive for Speedball, a narcotic substance with a weight of 7.5kg.

The suspect admitted that the suitcase was given to her by one Ms. Patience, her childhood friend in Zimbabwe to be sent to an unknown person in Accra, adding that Ms. Patience bought her the ticket to enable her travel to Accra.

In April 2018, another Zimbabwean woman was nabbed at an Indian airport acting as a drug mule.

Betty Rame was caught at the Delhi airport with close to three kilograms of party drugs earlier this week. Security officials said the woman was carrying drugs worth Rs. 15 crore which she was trying to smuggle to Manila in Philippines via Goa.

Here is how it unfolded. Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) officials got a tip-off from the Narcotics Control Bureau about a foreign woman carrying drugs on Monday.

On the same evening, Betty Rame, a Zimbabwe citizen, reached the departure terminal of the Indira Gandhi International Airport at around 8:30 to catch a flight to Goa.

Just as she was about to enter the airport from Gate 3, a security official stopped her.

Betty Rame was then frisked and made to give her baggage for checking. When the officers passed her suitcase through the X-BIS machine, officials spotted an image which looked suspicious.

On lifting it, it seemed unusually heavy.