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New Face of Drug Mules: Gray Hair, Crow's Feet, Driving an RV

By David Badertscher, PLL

Source: Crime & Justice News, May 20, 2008

"Ruth Davis banked on looking like just another granny

in the slow lane. But the 65-year-old Floridian was on

business. Thirty-three pounds of premium pot was

locked up in the trunk of her rented Chevy Impala. She

set her cruise on 74 as she headed north on

Interstate 95 through North Carolina, bound for New

York. A North Carolina trooper got in her way that

morning last December and stumbled across a new

type of drug mule. 'I'm not someone you'd think would

be doing this,' Davis told the Raleigh News and

Observer in a jail interview.  'I guess that's why it was

such a brilliant plan.'

She's the newest face of the drug mule: frosted hair

and crow's-feet. From 2006 to 2007, the number of

people over 60 charged with trafficking drugs in North

Carolina state courts nearly doubled. In 2007, at least

44 elderly people were arrested for trafficking

everything from marijuana to powder cocaine. The

aged are just the latest of disguises drug lords use to

move drugs up and down the East Coast. A

spokesman from the Drug Enforcement

Administration said they've seen some cases of

retirees being recruited by drug lords, their loot

stashed in Cadillacs or motor homes."

Raleigh News and Observer - http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=0012JJF05Hfmyx-cU_NRU9QTY90Nk6ECN2AVc8S5fdDu5ddzSDIs4cwad1_UOGloKkJtPdDcUTR4rWWX6M6ZrMFQmiiEIF2EZnLQskTCq40SOKCA_2-z7Z04jijoBZv1GqGIf17sUi6EGeE-UUypF8oKOV7YqEjeXno

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