5 Arrested in Scheme to Smuggle Heroin
A scheme to smuggle 200 kilograms of highly potent heroin from Pakistan to Los Angeles and British Columbia has been foiled with the arrest of five suspects and the seizure of $500,000 cash, the Drug Enforcement Administration said Wednesday.
The drug shipment had been intercepted earlier by narcotics agents. Had it slipped through undetected, it could have been adulterated to provide more than 8 million standard doses, the DEA said.
The arrests concluded an 11-month investigation that began in Karachi, Pakistan, and took undercover agents on a trail to Singapore, Seattle, Las Vegas, San Francisco and Los Angeles.
Three suspects were taken into custody by DEA agents Tuesday in Rosemead and South El Monte while a sale was in progress. David Nair, Mandeep Dosanjh and Yaddy Kallu were charged Wednesday with possession of narcotics and conspiracy to distribute them.
About the same time the arrests were being made in the United States, agents from the Pakistani Anti-Narcotics Force seized the alleged heroin supplier in that country and Royal Canadian Mounties arrested a suspect in British Columbia.
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