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Mumbai's youngsters could be snorting boric powder with MD
Updated On: 18 August, 2018 01:50 PM IST | Mumbai | Rahul Mahajani and Suraj Ojha
Probe reveals African peddlers have moved away from cocaine and are concocting MD in their suburban flats
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The arrest of Imtiyaz Shaikh on Aug 10 was the second big break after the African peddlers' in July
Even as cops crack down on cocaine, African drug peddlers have figured out yet another way to outsmart the police using simple chemistry, a la Breaking Bad. They are now brewing chemical drugs — mephedrone (MD) — in their apartments at Navi Mumbai and Mira Road.
This is the first time African peddlers in the city have ventured out of the cocaine business and into synthetic drugs like MD. Anti-narcotic cell (ANC) officers first caught wind of this shift in July-end, when they arrested nine African origin peddlers at the Eastern Freeway. The peddlers had 104 g of cocaine, but the police were more concerned by the smaller package of 9 g of MD they found.
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