Drug Mules. Susan McClelland.
by McClelland, Susan; ProQuest Information and Learning Company.
Series: SIRS Enduring Issues 2004Article 77Health. Publisher: Maclean's, 2003ISSN: 1522-323X;.Subject(s): Drug couriers | Drug traffic -- Canada | Narcotics -- Control of | Narcotics -- Control of -- Canada | SmugglersDDC classification: 050 Summary: "It was an offer Mary O'Connor couldn't refuse. The man sitting across from her in the seedy Toronto diner was promising a week's paid vacation at a luxury resort in Jamaica, cash for clothing and toiletries before departure, spending money while there, and $5,000 when she got home. There was only one condition: she had to smuggle cocaine back to Canada." (MACLEAN'S) This article provides an overview of drug mules, noting that "drug traffickers' use of mules has skyrocketed after the Sept. 11 [2001] terrorist attacks, largely because heightened border security made it more difficult for dealers to deliver large narcotic shipments into North America and Europe."| Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due |
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Originally Published: Drug Mules, July 28, 2003; pp. 24-29.
"It was an offer Mary O'Connor couldn't refuse. The man sitting across from her in the seedy Toronto diner was promising a week's paid vacation at a luxury resort in Jamaica, cash for clothing and toiletries before departure, spending money while there, and $5,000 when she got home. There was only one condition: she had to smuggle cocaine back to Canada." (MACLEAN'S) This article provides an overview of drug mules, noting that "drug traffickers' use of mules has skyrocketed after the Sept. 11 [2001] terrorist attacks, largely because heightened border security made it more difficult for dealers to deliver large narcotic shipments into North America and Europe."
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