Nigerian held with cocaine in Delhi

Anti-narcotics sleuths have arrested a Nigerian national here for allegedly receiving banned drugs sent in a parcel shipped from Trinidad.
Officials of the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) identified the accused as Chinedu Okeluwa alias John Morris (37), who was arrested with the banned drugs on June 17.
"Acting on a specific tip-off, officers intercepted Nigerian national Chinedu at Mohan Garden post office while he was receiving a courier coming from the United Kingdom. The parcel contained a flex painting and the drugs were concealed in wooden rods which flanked the top and bottom panels of the painting," a senior official of the NCB Delhi zone said.

The official added that while 500 gms of cocaine was recovered from the parcel on-spot, Okeluwa led sleuths to another 300 gms of the drug which was allegedly kept at his residence in Uttam Nagar area of the national capital.
They said the narcotic drugs were cleverly concealed inside the cavities of the painting courier and it took NCB men quite some time to detect it.
"The courier had originated in Trinidad and it landed here via UK," they said, adding, Okeluwa was produced in a special Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act (NDPS) court here yesterday which sent him to the agency's custody for further probe.

Cocaine is majorly used by youngsters and is one of the prominent drugs abused in rave parties and other illegal get-togethers in and around Delhi.