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Albanian teenager arrested for throwing heroin into Greek prison

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TIRANA, Aug. 12 – An Albanian teenager used a very efficient and ancient tool to throw heroin to prisoners in Patras, Greece, according to Albanian newspapers.

The teenager, whose name was not made known, threw the heroin to the prisoners using an ‘ancient’ tool often used in his homeland during childhood to shoot birds.

Greek police had learned drugs was used at the prison but could not find the way it was smuggled inside.

Police arrested the teenager with 75 grams of heroin he regularly threw across the prison walls to any prisoner ‘ordering’ drugs.

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