Criminology and Psychology

Managing Director of Goodies Music Productions, Mr Isaac Abeidu Aidoo, has been arrested for allegedly attempting to smuggle pellets of cocaine to London. He was arrested while going through departure formalities at the Kotoka International Airport about 9:30 p.m. on Wednesday night.He was said to have requested to be allowed to commit suicide, since he could not bear the humiliation associated with the exposure in the media.He had allegedly swallowed 80 thumb-size pellets of cocaine, which he claimed had been given to him at East Legon by someone he identified only as Abdul. At the time of filing this report, Aidoo had expelled 39 of the pellets.Three others, said to be couriers — Mohammed Yakubu, Othniel Oppong Boansi and Philip Asiedu Kissi — are also in custody for attempting to smuggle various quantities of cocaine to Europe between April 21 and 22, 2008.

Indian was among three persons nabbed by the British police in connection with the biggest ever seizure of heroin worth 15 to 20 million pounds, police said on Sunday. The Indian man was identified as 30-year old Harminder Chana, who was taken into custody by the Metropolitan police. Apart from Chana, Pakistani-origin Atif Khan (31) and Dutchman Patrick Kuster (35) were arrested over the seizure of 350 kgs of heroin valued at 15 to 20 million pounds.The specialist crime central task force seized the huge quantity heroin from two cars at a motorway service station in Kent on Thursday.Chana and Kuster were arrested in the motorway service station, while Khan was taken into custody in Ilford in east London.Officers saw the Dutchman transferring cardboard boxes from a BMW into another car in a parking lot off a highway southeast of London on Thursday.Police found ten more boxes full of heroin inside the BMW. They seized a total of 350 kgs in the bust.Detective chief inspector Peter Beyer s...