Smuggling suspects swallow packages

Press, 14 May 1979, Page 21

Smuggling suspects swallow packages

NZPA Sydney, Three foreigners arrested} after they swallowed dozens;' af small drug packages were tontinuing to pass them in a Sydney Hospital on Thursday. . n ' The Narcotics Bureau thief, Harvey Bates, said the three, two women and a plan, passed 21 packages . pver Wednesday night to i [ring the total recovered so , far to 65. Each package contains Ibout 30g of hashish oil. Mr Bates said they be- > fieved the three had more I package.* inside them and Kere under close medical attention. “There is a strong risk of internal rupturing, and there Save been fatalities from this

sort of thing overseas,” Mr Bates said. The three were arrested in a Kings Cross Hotel on Wednesday after arriving on a flight from overseas. Narcotics agents found 10 hashish oil packages concealed internally in the man and sAustssoo cash. The women denied knowledge of the drugs, but after several hours of interrogation they and the man experienced stomach pains and were taken to hospital. The man and one woman are believed to be Italian, while the other woman is believed to be British. Mr Bates said the Narcotics Bureau expected to lay charges against them, but did not know when they would be well enough to appear in court.