Customs officers of the revenue authority’s anti-narcotics section seized about 48 kg of cannabis, valued at Rs 58,020,000, from a couple arriving at Sir Seewoosagur Ramgoolam International Airport on 1 March 2025.[1] The man, a photographer and film director from California, and the woman, a photographer and salesgirl also from California, had arrived on Emirates flight EK703 from New York via Dubai with three pieces of luggage between them.[1]
Officers picked the couple for inspection in the Green Channel after profiling, and scans showed abnormalities in their luggage.[1] Each suitcase held vacuum packed sachets sealed inside clothes, together 90 packets of compressed dried leaf matter suspected to be cannabis; a field test came back positive and sniffer dogs Oscar and Scarlet reacted to the exhibits.[1] The pair said someone had given them the three suitcases at the airport in New York to bring to Mauritius.[1] Both were arrested by Anti-Drug and Smuggling Unit officers, who ran a controlled delivery operation.[1]
The man’s mother names him as Kristopher Gorr, a cinematographer hired to film a wedding in Mauritius, and says a man delivered two suitcases said to hold camera equipment minutes before his airport ride, leaving no time to check them.[2] She says Gorr and the other photographer, Natalie, travelled together from Los Angeles through Arizona, New York and Dubai, and that he was stunned when officers cut open a package in Natalie’s bag and pulled out cannabis.[2] She says he has been held in Beau Bassin prison without trial and faces up to 45 years for drug trafficking.[2]
