This went belly up! Five women “drug smugglers” are paraded by cops, “after one of them was caught at the Colombian airport with a fake BABY BUMP full of cocaine”
- Colombian airport police stop five women from smuggling 16 and a half kilograms of cocaine on Friday morning
- The bust took place at Ernesto Cortisos International Airport in Barranquilla when one of the five women was stopped on suspicion of not being pregnant.
- Cops pulled her aside to conduct a search and found several plastic bags of cocaine stuck to her abdomen.
- The flight she was supposed to board was stopped at the exit, and her other cohorts were found with cocaine wrapped around their bellies.
- A man traveling with the woman was also detained for possession of psychedelic drugs
Five women have been arrested on suspicion of cocaine smuggling at Colombian airport after cops allegedly caught one of them hiding the drug in a fake baby bump.
Agents made the bust early Friday when they noticed one of the five women pretending to be pregnant as she passed through the security checkpoint at Ernesto Cortisos International Airport in Barranquilla.
The woman, who was traveling with the other suspects to the capital, Bogota, was pulled aside for a second check.
Airport police seized several plastic A-wrapped packages wrapped around her abdomen and arrested her.
Police at Ernesto Cortisos International Airport in Barranquilla, Colombia, arrested and arrested five women and a man trying to fly to Bogota on Friday with 16 and a half kilograms of cocaine. Authorities arrested the smugglers after noticing that one of the women was simulating pregnancy by tying several plastic bags of cocaine to her stomach.
Authorities at the Ernesto Cortisos International Airport in Barranquilla, Colombia, seized 16.5 kilograms of cocaine from five women whose 14 packages of drugs were touched in their stomachs.
The flight was subsequently suspended at the exit, allowing officers to search her four companions, who also had cocaine packages on their stomachs.
At least one of the women entered the plane’s bathroom and retrieved three packets of cocaine before she was arrested.
Colombian newspaper El Heraldo identifies the accused as Olga Charris; Shelian de Leon; Sharon Orange; Laura Saenz; Angie Contreras; as well as a man who was also arrested named Wilmer Contreras.
Authorities seized a total of 14 packages of cocaine and confiscated an unknown amount of psychedelic drugs owned by Contreras.
Colombian airport police at the Ernesto Cortisos International Airport in Barranquilla stopped five women from smuggling 16 and a half kilograms of cocaine on a flight to Bogota on Friday morning
A spokesman for Sofia’s Barranquilla police told that the six suspects had been handed over to the chief prosecutor’s office and faced charges involving drug production, trafficking or possession.
Prosecutors have 36 hours to formally charge each of the six suspects.
The bust on Friday comes after customs agents at Medellin El Dorado International Airport intercepted a box of six kilograms of ecstasy pills that were sent on a flight from Madrid on February 12th.
Police said the pills were planned to be delivered to Cartagena, near Barranquilla, and sold in nightclubs and bars.