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Woman charged with trafficking heroin worth Sh110 million detained

By Joackim Bwana | May. 27, 2022

**Nuru Murshid Mahfudh in the dock at Shanzu law Court in Mombasa.** [Omondi Onyango,Standard]

A woman in Mombasa was on Thursday charged with trafficking 36,764 grams (about 36.8kg) of heroin worth Sh110 million in her house in Utange Mombasa County.

According to the prosecution, 29-year-old Nuru Mahfud was arrested on May 20 2022 at her house in White House at Joho area in Utange within Kisauni sub-county with 29 packets of heroine wrapped with a foil paper in a suitcase concealed beneath one of the bedrooms.

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