Colombia Airport Police Caught 2 Women Smuggling Cocaine Hidden in 'Narco-Wigs,' Vaginas
Colombia airport police caught two women trying to smuggle cocaine into the European market by sewing the drug into their "narco-wigs."
According to Daily Mail, the women tried to board flights to Spain in separate incidents on Thursday, with cocaine concealed in their wigs and also in their vaginas.
The first suspect was a 30-year-old woman. She was stopped at Alfonso Bonilla Aragon International Airport in Cali as she was passing through the security area on her way to the gate for her trip to Madrid, as seen in a surveillance camera.
The woman showed her passport to the security agent and proceeded to place her luggage through the x-ray machine before going through the metal detector.
The airport police said the woman was lost trying to locate one of the airport lounges and became suspicious when the woman started having a nervous breakdown while trying to answer questions.
She was taken to a screening room, where agents discovered several objects tied to hair extensions.
Colombia Airport Police Apprehended Two Women
Colonel Carlos Alberto Potes of Colombia's Ministry Defense said the cocaine were hidden in hair extensions of the two women who tried the trick to smuggle the narcotics in separate incidents.
The first woman had 900 grams of cocaine wrapped in plastic that were sewn to the fake hair before the woman confessed to having 200 more grams in her vagina.
The second woman was caught at Jose Maria Cordoba International Airport in Medellín moments before she boarded a flight to Madrid. She had 650 grams of cocaine hidden within her wig and another 200 grams wrapped around a white bag inside her vagina.
Authorities did not detail whether the two attempted smuggling incidents were related. Officials are still looking at the connection between the two cases of the detained women.
As of now, the women were placed at the disposal of the Attorney General's Office. They are expected to be charged with drug trafficking. In total, nearly two kilos of cocaine were recovered.
Colombia Drug Trafficking Using Women
In March 2022, Colombian authorities arrested five women at an airport in Barranquilla after finding around 16 kilograms of cocaine hidden inside fake pregnancy bumps, Insight Crime reported.
Airport police suspended the flight and detained four additional women using the same method to conceal drugs. The five women faced charges of drug trafficking and possession of narcotics.
Colombian authorities prosecuted a criminal group accused of injecting liquid cocaine into prosthetic implants inside the legs and breasts of female drug couriers in 2020.
The use of drug mules is widespread in Latin America, with drug trafficking organizations usually targeting young women who ingest narcotics in packaged condoms or latex before boarding a flight.
The number of women jailed in Colombia between 1991 and 2018 increased by 429% from 1,500 to 7,944. The Washington Office on Latin America reported in 2020 that drug-related crimes are the main cause of women being sent to jail in most Latin American countries.
The report added that female incarceration for drug-related offenses was common in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Venezuela, and Peru, among others.
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Written by: Mary Webber
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