A 23-year-old Brazilian drug mule was sentenced to 10 years in prison in Kempton Park Magistrate’s Court on Friday.
Jelani Hasan James had swallowed 55 bullets containing cocaine worth R825 000. He was arrested at OR Tambo International Airport on March 29 last year as he disembarked from a flight from São Paolo.
Police spokesperson Lt Col Katlego Mogale said the sentence came after an extensive investigation. After his arrest, James was taken for X-rays, which revealed the bullets in his stomach.
On the same day James was sentenced, a 31-year-old woman was picked out during a random search at the airport.
Mogale said she was taken for X-rays, which revealed foreign objects in her stomach.
The suspect has released some of the foreign objects and police suspect some of them were released during her flight.
The suspect appeared in Kempton Park Magistrate’s Court for dealing in drugs.
