Tuesday, 12 July 2011

Nigerian sentenced to prison for heroin smuggling

A Nigerian citizen who moved around the North Side while smuggling between $100,000 to $400,000 worth of heroin into the United States from India will spend five years and three months in prison, a federal judge ruled today.
Olajide Usman Abdul-Ganiu, 47, was nabbed in January 2010 by drug task force officers after he signed for a package of heroin in a false name, according to court documents.
The package was intercepted at JFK International Airport in New York City and delivered to an apartment in Marshall-Shadeland by an undercover postal inspector, according to court documents.
A federal jury convicted Abdul-Ganiu on two drug trafficking charges in March. U.S. District Judge David Cercone also sentenced Abdul-Ganiu to four years of probation.

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