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Man was to get paid $8,000 to smuggle heroin inside his body
Posted: 09.07.2012 at 4:50 PM
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80 pellets of heroin hidden inside Guatemalan man's body // CBP Photo
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A Guatemalan man is behind bars in the Rio Grande Valley after authorities learned he had swallowed 80 pellets filed with heroin in a botched drug smuggling attempt.

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