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Reflect SA Models: 10 MOVIES TO WATCH THIS JANUARY: Meryl Streep: as Margaret Thatcher in The Iron Lady


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24 MONTHS IN PRISON FOR DRUG SMUGLING

This press release about drug smuggling, released by MMD really caught my attention.

Posed a lot of questions into my mind. Is it that other countries take drug smuggling lightly, or is it just luck and bad luck for those involved in smuggling.

Don't get me wrong I do not want any drugs and, yes drugs destroy our communities and loved ones, let alone loosing a loved one because they were executed for drug smuggling as we all heard recently of Jannese Linden's execution in China late last year.

Press release:

Orlando airport cocaine swallower sentenced

ORLANDO, Fla. (MMD Newswire) January 11, 2012 -- A man who attempted to board a flight from Orlando to London with 800 grams of cocaine in his digestive track was sentenced Monday to 24 months in federal prison for possession of cocaine with the intent to distribute.

The case was investigated by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) and the Metropolitan Bureau of Investigation.

On July 9, ICE HSI agents encountered Barratt Eni, 54, of Little Rock, Ark., at the Orlando International Airport, where he was scheduled to board a trans-Atlantic flight to London.

According to information presented in court, Eni spoke freely with the agents and permitted a trained narcotics detection canine to inspect him and his carry-on baggage. When the canine positively alerted to the presence of narcotics on Eni's person, agents conducted a pat-down search but found nothing. When he consented to an X-ray of his body, a physician informed agents that Eni had numerous foreign bodies inside of his digestive tract. He then admitted to swallowing approximately 50 pellets containing a narcotic before flying into the Orlando airport.

Eni underwent emergency surgery to remove a total of 54 pellets from his digestive tract. It was subsequently determined that the substance in these pellets was cocaine hydrochloride with a net weight of 804.28 grams. The quantity of cocaine, the packaging and the method of concealment are consistent with cocaine distribution.

Eni, a naturalized U.S. citizen from Nigeria, said he was returning to Nigeria to attend his brother's funeral. He said that a man had offered to help pay for the funeral, but that Eni was supposed to transport drugs back to Nigeria for him in return.

Source: U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)
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10 MOVIES TO WATCH THIS JANUARY

Meryl Streep: as Margaret Thatcher in The Iron Lady


Our film critics rate and rank the latest films out now in UK cinemas.

1. The Artist | Rating: * * * * *

A silent celebration of early Hollywood that is visually ravishing, heart-warming and utterly beguiling.

2. The Iron Lady | Rating: * * * *

Meryl Streep's performance is astonishing. Some viewers may be disappointed that a Thatcher biopic lacks an explicit political agenda, but the film succeeds as a drama for that very reason.

3. Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol | Rating: * * * *

Tom Cruise rises to the challenge in the latest 'Mission: Impossible' caper, a fast-paced, gravity-defying thrill ride.

4. The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo | Rating: * * *

Rooney Mara glistens like an icicle in the new American adaptation of Stieg Larsson's pulp thriller The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo.

5. Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (2011)| Rating: * * *

Starring Robert Downey Jr and Jude Law, 'Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows' is the closest action cinema has ever come to pantomime.

6. Wreckers | Rating: * * *

A debut drama from British director DR Hood, starring Claire Foy and Benedict Cumberbatch

7. Another Earth | Rating: * * *

Another Earth is an admirable debut feature by Mike Cahill.

8. The Lady | Rating: * *

Luc Besson's biopic is a wan tribute to the Burmese democracy campaigner Aung San Suu Kyi, a pale imitation of an inspirational fighter for democracy.

9. Goon | Rating: * *

Seann William Scott stars in a violent comedy about the brutish world of semi-pro ice hockey.

10. Mother and Child | Rating: * *

Annette Bening's (The Kids Are All Right) film about maternity, in all its most yearning and thwarted forms, is such organisational effort that the movie itself resembles protracted labour.