Case Study

Stemming the flow of narcotics in Turkey with Gemini handheld analyzers

Stemming the flow of narcotics in Turkey with Gemini handheld analyzers

Bonsai In one instance, more than 260kg of material that was packaged as glass cleaning and repair material arrived on a plane from China. Drug sniffing dogs at the airport signaled that the product might possibly contain narcotics. Utilizing the Gemini Analyzer, agents were quickly able to determine – within minutes - that the product was actually the chemical used to manufacture bonsai, a synthetic cannabinoid. The raw material seized could have been used to create 260 tons of bonsai and, if it reached the streets, would have been distributed to potentially millions of people. Cocaine A passenger traveling from Columbia was stopped by customs enforcement officials when they suspected he might be carrying narcotics. The customs officers noticed that the passenger’ s luggage

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