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Heroin Smuggler

A widow sued the Department of Homeland Security et al., in federal court, claiming her late husband smuggled heroin into the United States inside his body on a flight from the Dominican Republic, and though the defendants discovered it and detained him, they didn’t see to it that he excreted them, and he died.

BROOKLYN — Authorities who arrested Felix Antonio De La Rosa Alvarez smuggling heroin from the Dominican Republic failed to detect an additional 37 pellets in his intestinal tract, and the father of six overdosed in his jail cell when one of the pellets ruptured, his widow claims in a federal complaint.

Categories / Civil Rights, Criminal, Government, Health

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