NZer caught with heroin at Sydney airport

A Canadian-born New Zealander has been arrested at Sydney airport after allegedly trying to smuggle almost 160 heroin pellets in his stomach, news agency AAP has reported.

The 39-year-old was stopped by Customs officers when he arrived on a flight from Singapore on Saturday, Australian Customs said in a statement today.

After questioning him, officers became suspicious he may have been concealing a drug internally and took him to hospital.

The man later allegedly passed 159 pellets containing about 300gm of a white power believed to be heroin, according to the AAP report.