A Latvian traveller was sentenced to imprisonment today for trying to smuggle $1.1 million of meth into the country in baby carriers and tie boxes.
Arturs Stasevskis, 20, was busted Auckland Airport by Customs when he came back from Dubai on March 12.
A search of his luggage revealed 1.1kg of methamphetamine hidden in the tie boxes and seven baby carriers. The amount has a potential street value of $1.1 million.
Stasevskis was given the carriers and boxes along with baby clothes and shoes in Riga Latvia after he agreed to smuggle the drug into New Zealand, where it would be collected and he would then be paid.
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