Border Force officers at Coventry Airport intercepted six parcels posted from Peru, each containing around four kilogrammes of the Class A substance N-Dimethyltryptamine, destined for Scott Kinta's former home in New Ollerton, Nottinghamshire. A further parcel, sent by Kinta to an address in Texas, was also seized.
Home Laboratory Discovered
Following the seizures, police searched Kinta's property and found a 'home laboratory' in a front bedroom, containing forensic equipment, bottles, jars, petri dishes, syringes, scales and packaging materials, as reported by Coventry Live. Comparable items were located elsewhere in the house. Examination of Kinta's mobile phone uncovered incriminating exchanges with a contact.
Court Sentence
Kinta, of Yorke Street, Mansfield Woodhouse, admitted being involved in the supply of Class A drugs and participating in the fraudulent evasion of a prohibition on the importation of a Class A drug. He claimed he had brought in the parcels from a 'medicine man' in Peru in exchange for future instruction in shamanic and tribal healing techniques.
Appearing at Nottingham Crown Court on Wednesday, 28 September, he received a five-year prison sentence.
Following the case, Det Con Joel Hughes said: "For obvious reasons, people involved in the importation of illegal drugs are usually more cautious when doing business.
"Kinta, however, was literally having packages of Class A drugs delivered to his own front door and was similarly open in sending the drugs on from his local Post Office.
"He may well have been motivated by his interest in shamanic rituals but, as he has just discovered to his cost, the punishments for importing and exporting Class A drugs will always be very severe."
