kilogram of cocaine hidden inside implants in her breasts, officials
said Wednesday.
The Panamanian woman was caught at Barcelona airport after getting off
a flight from Colombia, the national police said in a statement.
This handout picture released by the Spanish Police on December 12,
2012 shows two bags of breast prostheses filled with cocaine after
there were seized by Spanish Police at El Prat airport in Barcelona.
The woman "had two breast implants containing cocaine implanted in
her. She had two open cuts under each of her breasts," the police
said, releasing a photograph of one of the loosely stitched wounds.
"She intended in that way to bring more than a kilogram of the drug
into Spain," the statement added.
Officials questioned the woman as part of standard checks carried out
on passengers from Colombia — a major source of cocaine. When they
searched her, they found bloody dressings on the wounds.
They took her to hospital where doctors removed the implants and tests
showed that they contained 1.3 kilograms (three pounds) of cocaine,
the police said.
Source : Vanguard