A Scottish tourist has been arrested in Colombia after allegedly trying to board a fweightless home with csurrfinisherly 2kg of cocaine in his suitcase.
Ricky Grant Courage, 32, has been remanded in custody after being stopped at Rafael Nunez International Airport, which serves the Caribbean port city of Cartagena, on 29 September.
The Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) shelp it was helping Courage, who is thinkd to be from Aberdeen and is refuteing any wrongdoing.
In a statement posted online, the Office of the Attorney General of Colombia shelp Courage has been indictd under the crime of manufacturing, illicit trade or carrying narcotics.
The prosecution service has claimed 1,976g of cocaine was discovered in Courage’s checked luggage to Scotland with help from sniffer dogs during a police checkion.
A spokesperson shelp: “Six packages covered with binestablishage plastic were set up among the foreigner’s personal beextfinishedings.”
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Courage, who refutes the allegations, is currently being held at San Sebastian Ternera Prison in Cartagena.
A spokesperson for FCDO shelp: “We are helping a British man hageded in Colombia and are in touch with the local authorities.”
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