Man sent Class A drugs via local post office

A man who had Class A drugs delivered to his home before sending them on through his local post office has been jailed.

Scott Kinta was caught after he arranged to have several packages of a powerful hallucinogenic drugs delivered to his home address, Nottinghamshire Police said.

The force said Kinta, 36, of Yorke Street, Mansfield Woodhouse, had imported the packages from a "medicine man in Peru in return for future training in shamanic and tribal healing practices".

He was jailed for five years at Nottingham Crown Court on Monday after admitting drug offences.

He 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.

Kinta first came to the attention of the police in January 2025 when Border Force officers at Coventry Airport intercepted packages posted from Peru, police said.

The force said those packages each contained about four kilograms of the Class A drug, N-Dimethyltryptamine, and were addressed to Kinta's former home in New Ollerton.

Another package had been sent by Kinta to Texas.

Det Con Joel Hughes said Kinta had been sending drugs on from his local Post Office.

During a search of Kinta's home, officers found "what appeared to be a laboratory" in the front bedroom, containing a forensic unit, numerous bottles, jars, petri dishes, syringes, scales and packing materials.

The force said similar items were found elsewhere in the property and incriminating conversations with a contact were also found on his phone.

Following sentencing, 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."

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