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Man found dead in suitcase was drug mule

lohud.com — HAWTHORNE - The man found dead in a suitcase in Tibbetts Brook Park last week was a drug mule from the Dominican Republic who died from an apparent overdose after two packets of heroin leaked into his body, police said yesterday.

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  • projomni, on 10/08/2008, -1/+46ha... weird case.
    • FlankedOut, on 10/08/2008, -0/+2Understatement.
    • ansatsu29, on 10/09/2008, -1/+3Drug mules are prevalent here in Asia. They are trading heroin from Afghanistan, then a certain Pakistani gobbles up the packets and flies to Malaysia to excrete it then others pick it up and repeat the same process again.

      Philippine news stations over here are able to bust out a Nigerian drug syndicate that uses Filipino women as their drug mules, as they believed that women are more better drug mules than males. One particular case in China, a Filipino woman was apprehended and discovered as a drug mule. Police found 9 heroin capsules in her vagina, 48 in her rectum, and 11 more in her intestines. I read this in a blog posted by a reporter named Jiggy Manicad. Its in Filipino but anyway, here's the link: http://blogs.gmanews.tv/jiggy-manicad/archives/6-D ...

      X-rays of a drug mule's body can be seen there as well as the heroin capsules they swallow. Those capsule measure about a foot long and almost more than the size of your thumb. In order to swallow it, the drug mules themselves eat the capsules together with okra. They pay the drug mules at $1,000 to $ 3, 0000 dollars - which in my opinion, is not enough to cover their disgusting disguise.
  • oceanghost, on 10/08/2008, -2/+80Case closed? Bad joke, sorry.
    • tykwondingo, on 10/09/2008, -2/+2no need to apologize, *****.

      /reminded of Baldwin in Sarah Marshall
  • melville248, on 10/08/2008, -2/+21Risky business....actually can't believe they didn't slice him open for the drugs, must have been amateurs.
    • rezist, on 10/09/2008, -0/+5Amateurs would have sifted through his intestines and stomach for the product, while people in a position to ignore such a minute loss wouldn't even question when the mule didn't show up for delivery. That said, I feel bad for the guys kids or family he was trying to support if that was the case.
    • Paulish, on 10/09/2008, -1/+9Please stop. Don't talk as if you know everything about drug running. I don't know anything, it is just painful to watch others to pretend to.
    • rheaume, on 10/09/2008, -0/+1Yeah carving up a dead dude for drugs is such a lovely thing to live with...
      I bet they decided to say the cops found him first and let the big fish absorb the loss
  • chicagojack, on 10/08/2008, -1/+48Does Drug mule pay very well. I need money asap
    • tykwondingo, on 10/09/2008, -0/+1010,000 kola nuts,
      Wrapped in brown paper...
      Midnight, behind the box
      I'll be the hyena, you'll see.
    • passedoutghost, on 10/09/2008, -9/+2it pays ok. It's a great job if you're gay (no offence), I mean it would have to be, considering you're shoving things up your ass.
      • liquisoft, on 10/09/2008, -0/+14No, you're usually swallowing the packets and then crapping them out.
      • Lith25, on 10/09/2008, -0/+14Pfft, shoving things up your ass doesn't mean your gay.

        O_o

        Does it?
      • Ravatar, on 10/09/2008, -1/+11It's only gay if you're shoving a penis in there.

        Hairbrushes, bananas, baseball bats, or wine bottles do not make you gay.
      • passedoutghost, on 10/09/2008, -0/+8It's only gay if the bags touch.
      • thestereofield, on 10/09/2008, -0/+1a strap on used by a woman?

        half gay?
  • tbhurst, on 10/08/2008, -0/+17Holy crap, that IS crazy.
    • bleh19799791, on 10/09/2008, -1/+3Somehow PETA will get involved because of the "mule".
  • gobbstopp, on 10/08/2008, -0/+26drug-running really cramped his style
  • prunch, on 10/08/2008, -2/+15I dont know why but this reminds me of a Norm MacDonald joke

    "on this years list of worst jobs, last years worst job, 'crack whore', has been replaced in the top spot by 'assistant crack whore'"
  • lesleye, on 10/08/2008, -0/+6Man, this is screwed up.
  • gsgdiggs, on 10/08/2008, -2/+2Seriously why would anyone do that, there has got to be other ways to get the job done...terrible!
  • ryan83189, on 10/09/2008, -2/+8They should have just put the drugs in the suitcase to begin with.
    • c0mputar, on 10/09/2008, -0/+8I'm guessing they put him in after he died.
  • PanicAK, on 10/09/2008, -0/+14I can't even begin to imagine what it's like to die from heroin balloons bursting inside you, what a way to go...
  • copypastry, on 10/09/2008, -0/+5Shouldn't have used the ultrathin condoms.

    Maybe he could have even double bagged em.
  • johnnyfistfight, on 10/09/2008, -3/+27A dead man drugged a mule in a suitcase?
  • ligyron, on 10/09/2008, -8/+10He'll never be the head of a major corporation...wait I'm doing it wrong aren't I
  • audomatix, on 10/09/2008, -0/+10This is exactly why I stopped sneaking things into the country with my ass.
  • disrupter, on 10/09/2008, -2/+2I guess they closed the case now
  • coolremo, on 10/09/2008, -0/+8Note to self: do not open suitcases found in the park.
  • tjallen, on 10/09/2008, -1/+7Steal music. Pirate software. Never drug mule.
  • alclone, on 10/09/2008, -8/+4I would have taken the body back to my house and sold the cocaine...

    just kidding guys! i actually would have snorted it all
    • meesho, on 10/09/2008, -0/+5What cocaine? This article is about heroin.
  • ethereel, on 10/09/2008, -0/+3I figure I'll die at work too, only my death will be painfull and twitchy...
  • hellbent187, on 10/09/2008, -0/+5Those drug mules are nuts! I wonder how much they get paid.
  • InspectorGadget, on 10/09/2008, -0/+2Well, I guess that saves the expense of deportation...
    • DiggMasterJ, on 10/09/2008, -0/+4yea, less work for Immigration. He was already packed.
  • pe5t1lence, on 10/09/2008, -0/+9Ever see a yeti when a dozen condoms of coke burst in his belly? Its a bad scene man...
  • Chebsi, on 10/09/2008, -0/+3Uh, I don't really think the "was drug mule" part was really necesssary.. ."Man found dead in suitcase" is pretty amazing on its own.
  • TaintedWisdom, on 10/09/2008, -1/+8I know what this guy did is horrible, sick, etc. and definitely does not place you on a nice guy list however, the comments left by some of the people on that site are even more disturbing. I could understand why a person might end up doing such a job (third world country, horrible conditions, no education etc. etc.) however, there is not reason for the comments left by what appear to be Americans/New Yorkers. Being a New Yorker myself I found their comments worse than the profession the guy was in.
    • fli7e, on 10/09/2008, -0/+2You must be new here...
    • ursulaskaggs, on 10/09/2008, -0/+5What's so horrible about what the guy did? Disgusting, sure. Dangerous, absolutely. But horrible and sick? Not really... He's just a drug smuggler, it's not like he was spoon-feeding the heroin to children or baby kittens. The only terrible thing I can think of is how little this poor guy was probably getting paid for risking his life and how much someone else was profiting from his risk. Oh, and the fact that his buddies couldn't have dropped him off in front of the hospital where a shot of naloxone would have saved him. Instead they stuff him in a big sack and leave him in the park....
    • paolo1337, on 10/09/2008, -0/+4Tainted, I was thinking the exact same thing. The comments people left on that website disturb me a lot more than the drug mule who was found dead. I am disgusted that new yorkers actually think that way. Must be some outcast rural town.

      Related note: Sarah Palin leads the same fate as the drug mule, as opposed to McCain, the behind the scene drug dealer cashing in the bucks (I don't mean this literally -.-). She is literally being used by McCain to talk ***** and then carry the blame for it. While I laugh at her and find her rediculous, it's really not her fault at all -- McCain brought her into the mess to cover up for himself. Disappointing.
  • drmobutu, on 10/09/2008, -1/+3Just goes to show the amazing lengths smugglers will go to...it's no longer enough to smuggle drugs in luggage, or in your rectum...the authorities are wise to that.

    Nowdays, they put the drugs in a guy, and the guy in the luggage...a ploy so absurd, no Customs Agent would EVER suspect it...until now...
    • aknewdawn, on 10/09/2008, -0/+2OK for this just think of some old mystery movie put a deep voice to this, some creepy music and you have your next big thing. Sorry I do not know if people have a warped sense of humor like myself. The sarcasm is so over powering its awsome. digg or don`t
    • drmobutu, on 10/09/2008, -0/+2That's how they fool the dogs...
  • Louay, on 10/09/2008, -2/+8its ***** like this that makes me hate drugs
    ...im probably gonna get dugg down for saying that but its true
    • Jimbozu, on 10/09/2008, -2/+7If they didn't have to be smuggled into the country people probably wouldn't die from balloons full of heroin bursting in their stomach.
    • bosoxrock, on 10/09/2008, -1/+4there's nothing wrong with hating drugs. that makes you a reasonable person. you'd get dugg down if you said something retarded, such as "the government needs to do more to keep drugs out of the country! why can't we win the war on drugs!"

      ***** the government and its war on drugs. this story is another example of a negative byproduct of the supposed war on drugs.
  • diggydougie, on 10/09/2008, -3/+7Another victim of the war on drugs. Ever hear of people doing such things with legal drugs?
    • veriix, on 10/09/2008, -0/+2Don't judge me because of what I do with my NyQuil.
  • RevLoki, on 10/09/2008, -1/+2Feels good man.
  • PhrosTT, on 10/09/2008, -0/+2which hawthorne?
    • peacefrog249, on 10/09/2008, -0/+2the one in Westchester County, NY
  • WhoDoneIt, on 10/09/2008, -1/+2@Lith25

    Nope..the object that you shove up your ass is gay, not you.
  • iamdan1, on 10/09/2008, -0/+4How the hell did he fit 50 packets of heroin in him?!
  • Paintball20, on 10/09/2008, -0/+4off topic a bit but does anyone know how u start heroin i mean come on everyone knows how bad it is. and yet ppl do it. what? do they just say randomly one day hey i wanna go shoot a ***** ton of heroin so i dont feel my body. stupid if ppl just smartened up a bit this kinda ***** wouldnt happen. then again those Dominicans would be out of a job then so i guess the world does need heroin.
    • brrone, on 10/09/2008, -0/+1yeah everything has a side effect. but no one starts off shooting a ton of heroin. it starts with a small dose to get high. then you become addicted and you do more and more. thats how you fall into the heroin trap.
      just like a pack of smokes leads to cartons.
      • dansai, on 10/09/2008, -2/+1What about the people like myself who realise it's bad and just won't try it, full stop? It's not that hard to have self control.
  • mianus230, on 10/09/2008, -0/+1what was kind of funny was, that if the drug dealer would have got there he "would have cut him open"
    • veriix, on 10/09/2008, -0/+1Would you cut someone open for 100,000?
    • Muler36, on 10/09/2008, -0/+1I see what you mean, that is kind of funny.

      What?
  • 3xx6, on 10/09/2008, -0/+1Woah. Good song title.
  • svendm, on 10/09/2008, -0/+2This guy was doing it wrong.. look: EITHER you swallow the packets OR you hide them in your suitcase. You don't swallow the packets and then hide YOURSELF in the suitcase!

    It's like some kind of narcotics matryoshka doll!! Drugs in condoms in guy in suitcase in plane?
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