PREET BHARARA, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that MOHAMMED AFZAL NABIBUX ("AFZAL"), a citizen of the United Kingdom, pled guilty today in Manhattan federal court to conspiring to import heroin into the United States. AFZAL, 57, pled guilty before U.S. Magistrate Judge RONALD L. ELLIS. Manhattan U.S. Attorney PREET BHARARA said: "International drug traffickers present a tremendous threat to our country and our communities. As this case makes clear, we are committed to stopping the flow of narcotics from overseas into the United States, and to working with all of our law enforcement partners here, in Europe, and around the world, in bringing the people who export this poison to justice." According to the Indictment to which AFZAL pled guilty, documents previously filed in Manhattan federal court, statements made during the guilty plea proceeding, and other information in the public record: From July through October 2009,...