Pubdate: Mon, 02 Jul 2001
Source: Ottawa Sun (CN ON)
Copyright: 2001, Canoe Limited Partnership
Contact:  http://www.canoe.ca/OttawaSun/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/329

SENIOR DRUG MULE DIES

TORONTO -- Peel police and the coroner's office are probing the death of a 
70-year-old British drug courier at Etobicoke General Hospital early 
yesterday morning.

Police have refused to release the elderly man's identity pending the 
notification of his next of kin in Middlesex, England.

Airport officers said the senior had swallowed 12 rubber pellets of heroin 
and it appeared one broke inside him shortly after he arrived at the 
terminal on an Air Canada flight Saturday night.

Police said they were shocked to learn the senior died of a possible drug 
overdose.

"This is the oldest drug courier we have seen," one Peel officer said 
yesterday. "He's probably the oldest drug mule we have had in Canada."
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