Specifically, for mules caught with cocaine and meth, pay appears to bestrongly correlated to expected sentence if caught, while pay appears to be primarily correlated with load size for marijuana mules, who generally smuggle much larger loads than those smuggling cocaine and meth. Drug mules are usually in their twenties or thirties, but people up to the age of 72 have been caught doing this.

In one year (2002/2003) at J.F. Criminal gangs have been dressing young drug mules as nurses and Deliveroo workers to deliver cocaine, heroin and illegally acquired prescription drugs during lockdown, according to a senior officer in charge of tackling county lines dealing at one of the UK’s biggest police forces. Women make up about half of some 300 drug mules arrested each year at Guarulhos International in Sao Paulo - Brazil’s biggest city and financial center - according to police data. Drug mules in county lines gangs have been dressing up as Deliveroo workers and nurses to continue dealing crack cocaine and heroine during lockdown. Suspect Krittamet Ngiabsa-ngad, 28, arrested making deliveries of drugs sold by a dealer using a Line chat group, at a house in Thalang district, Phuket, on Friday.