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Bakersfield, CA
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Newark Airport Dealer Who Swallowed Pound-Plus Of Heroin Gets 30 Months
An admitted drug dealer from California who flew into Newark Airport after swallowing more than a pound of heroin in dozens of plastic bags -- one of which ruptured -- was sentenced Wednesday to 30 months in federal prison. Omar Vasques, 24, of Bakersfield, previously admitted swallowing the 81 heroin pellets -- totaling 1.3 pounds and wrapped in plastic baggies -- that he intended to sell when he landed at the airport this past Sept. 16. Authorities were waiting for him, though, and took Vasques to a hospital -- where emergency surgery was required after doctors discovered that one of the …