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59 pounds of khat seized

By BlueMystic, Jul 25, 2005 | 4 Comments | 769 Views | Miscellaneous
  1. BlueMystic
    Police seize 59 pounds of khat in I-80 stop
    July 23, 2005 - zwire.com

    BLOOMSBURG (AP) - State police seized 59 pounds of khat, a leafy drug popular in Africa and the Middle East, from a van that had a flat tire on Interstate 80.

    The driver, Mohamed Gelatu Guye, 46, of Jersey City, N.J., was charged with drug possession and possession with intent to deliver or manufacture and jailed in lieu of $250,000 bail, police said. It wasn't immediately clear whether he had an attorney.

    Guye, described as an unemployed Ethiopian native, told investigators he was paid $300 to drive the khat from New York City to Columbus, Ohio, and had a flat tire as he drove west through Columbia County about 1:30 a.m. Thursday, police said.

    Troopers Lisa Marie Girman and Joseph Warunek spotted the disabled van and stopped to help, and said Guye appeared nervous and tried to distract them from looking inside the van. Girman looked through the windows and spotted wrapped bundles of khat partially hidden under a blanket.

    State Police Sgt. Scott Price said they seized 260 wrapped bundles of the African flowering shrub, a stimulant that can produce euphoria when chewed or brewed as tea.

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  1. Muirner
    I have never heard of this drug... can anyone tell me the deal about it?

    Muirner
    Muirner, Jul 25, 2005
  2. Zandorf
    Khat is a shrub indigenous to the horn of africa and the arabian
    peninsula. It's illegal in the US because it contains two scheduled
    drugs, cathine and cathinone. Chewing its leaves provides mild
    stimulation.









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  3. unico_walker
    What do you want to bet the officers thought it was marijuana?
    unico_walker, Jul 25, 2005
  4. OiledMandible
    Muirner</span>- You must not have many
    Somalian people in your area. Here in Minneapoils khat can be
    found anywhere there is a Somali community.



    /Nothing against Somalians

    //They deserve drugs too
    OiledMandible, Jul 26, 2005
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