Police and Immigration
officers around the world may start having to feel women during airport
checks as a woman has proven drugs could be transported through implants.
Spanish police on Wednesday arrested a Panamanian woman who landed in Barcelona from Bogota, Colombia with cocaine stuffed inside her chest implants.
The woman was taken to
the police at Barcelona’s El Prat airport after
her vague answers to questions about the reasons for her trip from Bogota raised suspicion
at the border control, the Interior Ministry said in a statement.
Spanish authorities
carry out rigorous checks of passengers arriving on so-called “hot flights”
from Latin America, to fight drug smuggling.
When border police
discovered fresh scars and blood-stained gauze on the woman’s chest she was
taken to a nearby hospital to check her claim that she had recently undergone
chest implant surgery.
The implants were found to carry 1.38 kg of cocaine. [Reuters]
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