{"id":694331,"date":"2019-08-28T22:34:26","date_gmt":"2019-08-28T22:34:26","guid":{"rendered":"<br><img src=\"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/224771.jpg\" \/><br><div id=\"article-more-body\" data-reactid=\".1j7156xhu72.1.e.0.0.0.5.1\"><!--sse--><!-- C-ON- TEXT_CONTENT_START --><p>Johannesburg \u2013 A Kenyan man who swallowed 1.2 kilogram"},"modified":"2019-08-28T22:34:26","modified_gmt":"2019-08-28T22:34:26","slug":"kenyan-man-arrested-in-thailand-after-swallowing-over-60-cocaine-packages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/08\/28\/kenyan-man-arrested-in-thailand-after-swallowing-over-60-cocaine-packages\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenyan man arrested in Thailand after swallowing over 60 cocaine packages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/224771.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"article-more-body\" data-reactid=\".1j7156xhu72.1.e.0.0.0.5.1\"><!--sse--><!-- C-ON- TEXT_CONTENT_START --><\/p>\n<p>Johannesburg \u2013 A Kenyan man who swallowed 1.2 kilogrammes of cocaine contained in more than 60 packages has been arrested at Thailand\u2019s Bangkok airport after he flew in from Ethiopia.<\/p>\n<p>Glen Ooko, 43, was detained after an X-ray showed dozens of oblong items in his stomach, the East African reported Thailand&#8217;s Office of the Narcotics Control Board stating.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Ooko was arrested along with Nigerian national Osita Joseph Ukpa, who police said had hired the Kenyan to smuggle the drugs.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is part of a drug network in Thailand,&#8221; a police statement said.<\/p>\n<p>Due to its porous borders, lax law enforcement Thailand has become a focal point for transnational crime syndicates to smuggle methamphetamine drugs worth multi-billions of dollars, originating in Myanmar and Laos before moving on to countries like Australia and Japan.<\/p>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\" data-reactid=\".1j7156xhu72.0.1d\">!function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s) {\n                        if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function() {\n                           n.callMethod? n.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};\n                        if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';\n                        n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\n                        t.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\n                        s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window,document,'script','https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n                        fbq('init', '794201197427829');\n                        fbq('track', 'PageView');\n                           <\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" data-reactid=\".1j7156xhu72.1.4\">(function(d, s, id) {\n                    var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\n                    if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\n                    js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\n                    js.src = \"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_GB\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&version=v2.9\";\n                    fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\n                  }(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));<\/script><script src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1\" id=\"facebook-jssdk\" async=\"\" data-reactid=\".1j7156xhu72.1.v\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Johannesburg \u2013 A Kenyan man who swallowed 1.2 kilogrammes of cocaine contained in more than 60 packages has been arrested at Thailand\u2019s Bangkok airport after he flew in from Ethiopia. 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