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Big Grin British Narcograndad 78 yrs, Arrested in Colombia

British Narcograndad 78 yrs Arrested in Colombia Amid Rise in Elderly Drug Mules

78-year-old British "narcograndad" is being held in Colombia for attempting to smuggle cocaine out of the country as the country deals with a surge in pensioners being used to traffic drugs abroad.


The Telegraph UK, 16 DEC 2019.





Vincent Ruocco


Vincent Ruocco from Manchester was arrested at Bogotá’s El Dorado airport after the police found nine kilos of cocaine hidden in wooden pedicure files stashed in his luggage.

Colombian officials say the number of elderly people used as so-called “drug mules" nearly doubled in the last year. So far this year 47 people aged between 50 and 80 have been caught, with 14 of those over the age of 65. In 2018 33 were caught.

The numbers are likely to represent a fraction of the total number of elderly people used to smuggle drugs, many of whom go undetected.

“These people represent a vulnerable section of society,” Colonel Wilson Siza of Colombia’s Antinarcotics police told The Telegraph.




The nail files allegedly found in Vincent Ruocco's luggage


“Drug gangs take advantage of them by offering them large payments. They also think they are less likely to be searched.”

Earlier this year, British pensioners Roger and Sue Clarke were convicted of smuggling £1 million pounds of cocaine on a luxury Caribbean cruise.

A judge in Lisbon, Portugal, sentenced them to eight years in prison.

But in Colombia, one of the reasons gangs use senior citizens to move their drugs is that they often get away with non-custodial sentences, according to the police. Pensioners convicted of crime are usually placed under house arrest or a temporary curfew.

“The risk for them is therefore considered to be less so it’s easier to persuade them to try,” said colonel Siza.

Very few drugs mules are repeat offenders, according to the Colombian authorities, but Mr Ruocco, who is currently in custody awaiting trial in Bogotá, had previously been detained at Heathrow airport after arriving on a flight from Togo with 2.5k of cocaine in his luggage in 2014.

He was found not guilty of the offence in April 2015.

Approximately 70 per cent of the cocaine consumed globally comes from Colombia.

The country also seizes more cocaine than any other in the world, although the total amount of seizures dropped by 4.7 percent, from 434.7 tons in 2017 to 414.5 tons in 2018.

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