Top Ten Cities for arresting Americans
The top 10 cities where Americans were arrested and the number taken into custody:
1. Tijuana: 520
2. Guadalajara: 416
3. Nuevo Laredo: 359
4. London: 274
5. Mexico City: 208
6. Toronto: 183
7. Nassau, Bahamas: 108
8. Mérida, Mexico: 99
9. Nogales, Mexico: 96
10. Hong Kong: 90
2,500 citizens are arrested abroad. One third of the arrests are on drug-related charges. Many of those arrested assumed as U.S. citizens that they could not be arrested. From Asia to Africa, Europe to South America, citizens are finding out the hard way that drug possession or trafficking equals jail in foreign countries.Disclaimer: The statements and articles listed here, and any opinions, are those of the writers alone, and neither are opinions of nor reflect the views of this Blog. Aggregated content created by others is the sole responsibility of the writers and its accuracy and completeness are not endorsed or guaranteed. This goes for all those links, too: Blogs have no control over the information you access via such links, does not endorse that information, cannot guarantee the accuracy of the information provided or any analysis based thereon, and shall not be responsible for it or for the consequences of your use of that information.
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Police say they've made one of the biggest drugs busts in the country's history, confiscating almost three quarters of a billion rand worth of heroin at the Beitbridge Border Post.Two men have been arrested. They were trying to bring around a ton of the deadly drug from Zimbabwe into South Africa.The police's Dennis Adriao says the find was the result of a routine search.South African police seized suspected heroin Tuesday worth nearly 100 million dollars in what the United Nations said could be the biggest-ever bust in Africa and one of the largest in the world.
The 47 sackloads of the drug, weighing a total of 1,363 kilogrammes (about 3,000 pounds), were discovered in a secret compartment in a lorry that had crossed South Africa's border from Zimbabwe, said Captain Dennis Adriao. The heroin was discovered during a routine search by police and customs officials near the Beit Bridge crossing."The truck and trailer were empty but on closer inspection, police members discovered a false compartment. Police narcotics dogs also reacted positively to the false compartment," Adriao told AFP."On opening the compartment, police found 47 bags each weighing 29 kilos of yellowish / pink powder. Sample tests were done on site which revealed that the powder was heroin."More detailed tests on the packages were being done to confirm the nature of the find beyond doubt.
Adriao said the total street value of the haul was 750 million rand (98.5 million dollars / 67 million euros).Two South Africans, including the driver of the lorry, were arrested and were expected to be charged with drugs smuggling.
The UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) said the bust was "indeed huge".
"1.3 tons would be definitely the largest heroin seizure ever made in Africa," UNODC policy analysis and research branch official Thomas Pietschmann told AFP.
"The largest heroin seizures in Africa, which we have on our database, amount to just 51 kg; the largest single seizure officially reported by the South African authorities to UNODC amounted to just 3.6 kg."
Pietschmann said only ten previous single seizures, all in Pakistan, had exceeded the find reported by South African authorities on Tuesday.
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