A drugs offender was caught by police after he arranged to have several packages of a powerful hallucinogen sent to his home address.
Scott Kinta came to officers’ attention in January 2025 when Border Force officers at Coventry Airport intercepted packages posted from Peru.
The six packages, each containing about four kilograms of the Class A drug N-Dimethyltryptamine, were addressed to Kinta’s former home in New Ollerton.
Another package, sent by Kinta to an address in Texas, was also intercepted.
When a warrant was executed at Kinta’s address, officers found what appeared to be a home laboratory in a front bedroom, containing a forensic unit, numerous bottles, jars, petri dishes, syringes, scales and packaging materials.
Similar items were found elsewhere in the property.
Further evidence was found on Kinta’s mobile phone, which contained incriminating conversations with a contact.
Kinta later pleaded guilty to being concerned in the supply of Class A drugs and being concerned in the fraudulent evasion of a prohibition on the importation of a Class A drug.
He said he had imported the packages from a ‘medicine man’ in Peru in return for future training in shamanic and tribal healing practices.
Kinta, of Yorke Street, Mansfield Woodhouse, appeared at Nottingham Crown Court on Wednesday 28 September and was jailed for five years.
Detective Constable Joel Hughes said:
“For obvious reasons, people involved in the importation of illegal drugs are usually more cautious when doing business.
“Kinta, however, was literally having packages of Class A drugs delivered to his own front door and was similarly open in sending the drugs on from his local Post Office.
“He may well have been motivated by his interest in shamanic rituals but, as he has just discovered to his cost, the punishments for importing and exporting Class A drugs will always be very severe.”
