/ 17 December 2000

DRUG BUSTS GALORE ON SAO PAOLO FLIGHT

FOUR people have been arrested in three separate drug busts on the same flight from Sao Paolo, Brazil. South African police arrested a Venezuelan mother and son at Johannesburg’s airport after 12kg of cocaine was found in their hand luggage, and a 40-year-old South African man who had 3kg of cocaine in his possession. A South African woman was arrested in Brazil before boarding the same flight with 7kg of the drug in her luggage. – AFP