LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — A world traveler landed in Las Vegas with greater than 70 kilos of ketamine in his baggage, main federal brokers to arrest him, paperwork mentioned.
Nehemiah Bayonne faces federal expenses of importation of a managed substance and possession with intent to distribute a managed substance, paperwork mentioned.
On Monday, Sept. 29, Bayonne landed at Harry Reid Worldwide Airport on a flight from London, in accordance with a particular agent with Homeland Safety Investigations.
Throughout a Customs and Border Safety inspection, an officer positioned “packages shaped similarly to bricks” in Bayonne’s baggage, they mentioned. The 32 bricks, totaling 72 kilos, contained “a white crystal-like solid substance” that brokers imagine is ketamine.
The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration classifies ketamine as an anesthetic avenue drug that causes “some hallucinogenic effects.”
Throughout a listening to on Wednesday, Justice of the Peace Choose Brenda Weksler ordered Bayonne launched on a private recognizance bond.
A preliminary listening to was scheduled for Oct. 15.
Docs can use an injectable type of ketamine to deal with melancholy, in accordance with the DEA.
