Drug ring allegedly paid to rent infants Offered moms $300 for kids: prosecutors

From: Chicago Sun-Times | Date: December 15, 2001| Author: | Copyright information

In what U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald called "a new low in drug smuggling," babies as young as 3 weeks old were rented out for $300 to an international drug ring that used them as decoys while smuggling liquid cocaine in cans of baby formula, federal prosecutors charged Friday.

In three indictments against 35 people, prosecutors said the drug ring made 51 smuggling trips to Chicago, London and Panama City, sometimes using airline tickets obtained through an Internet scam.

From 1996 through 1999, couriers allegedly smuggled cocaine and heroin in suitcase handles, their own body cavities and ...

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