Smuggling

Drug Smuggler Caught

The man was doing a betelnut run on the North Coast, travelling down from Goroka, Eastern Highlands.

According to police officers, they sighted him behaving uneasy at the checkpoint and proceeded to bring him into the police station for a body search.

While doing so, they found marijuana neatly packed inside his boots. The police officers said it was a first of its kind they had seen. They said the entire area where the foot fits into a shoe, was removed, packed with marijuana and resealed.

France seizes 2,000 dead seahorses on Guinea-Vietnam route

Seahorses are protected by the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (Cites).

But they find ready markets in Vietnam and China, where they are ground up to make supposed aphrodisiacs.

In February 2015 French officials seized some 19,000 seahorses en route from Madagascar to Hong Kong.

Customs at Chilly-Mazarin, in the Paris region, said several parcels of dead seahorses had been intercepted in July and August. Sent from Conakry in Guinea, they had been stuffed into plastic bags and were bound for Hanoi.