Pubdate: Wed, 03 Feb 1999
Source: ITAR-TASS (Russia)
Copyright: 1999 ITAR-TASS.

86-YEAR-OLD WOMAN ARRESTED FOR DRUG TRAFFICKING

LIPETSK,  - A 86-year-old woman, a resident of
Russia's city of Lipetsk, has been arrested for attempting to sell
marijuana to a 12- year-old schoolboy.

The chief of the local department for drug trafficking, colonel Arkady
Slepokurov, said that drug dealers often sell narcotics through
elderly people  or teenagers.

The officer also said that the number of people involved in drug
trafficking  was not decreasing this year as compared to 1998.
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