BALTIMORE: The United States Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agency says it has arrested a Jamaican woman for smuggling more than four ounces of cocaine inside her body.
CBP said officers discovered the drug after Camella Simone Whyte, 31, arrived on a flight from Montego Bay, Jamaica.
“Whyte consented to a medical examination during questioning, and that medical exam revealed the presence of foreign objects inside her body,” CBP said.
“Whyte was induced, and she passed 10 thumb-sized pellets. The pellets contained a white powdery substance that field-tested positive for cocaine.”
The pellet’s total weighed measured about 120 grams or 4.2 ounces, said CBP, adding that it “paroled Whyte into the US so that she can be prosecuted”.
CBP’s Area Port Director for the Port of Baltimore, Dianna Bowman, warned that “smuggling narcotics inside one’s body is dangerous.
“If a pellet breaches inside a courier, the result could be a very painful death,” she said, adding “narcotics interdiction remains an enforcement priority for Customs and Border Protection, and a mission that we take very seriously”.
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