Local November 23, 2011 - 11:53 am

Cocaine-filled condoms kill “mule”

SANTO DOMINGO. – A “mule” taken last week to the Armed Forces Hospital passed away Wednesday morning after stomach surgery to extract several condoms filled cocaine brought from Venezuela, some of which he couldn’t expel.

The National Drugs Control Agency (DNCD) said Neyba native Euglis Luciano Amador was taken to the hospital after he went to a private clinic for help, but antinarcotics agents were alerted to arrest him.

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