That went belly up! Five female ‘drug smugglers’ are paraded by cops ‘after one of them was caught at Colombian airport with fake BABY BUMP filled with cocaine’
- Airport police in Colombia stopped five women from smuggling 16 and a half kilos of cocaine on Friday morning
- The bust took place at Ernesto Cortissoz International Airport in Barranquilla when one of the five women was stopped on suspicion that she was not pregnant
- Cops pulled her to the side to performed an inspection and found several plastic wrapped bundles of cocaine taped over her belly
- The flight she was scheduled to board was halted at the gate and were able to find her other cohorts with cocaine wrapped around their abdomen
- A man who was traveling with the woman was also taken into custody for possession of psychedelic drugs
Five women were arrested on suspicion of cocaine smuggling at a Colombian airport after cops allegedly caught one of them concealing the drug in a fake baby bump.
Agents made the bust early Friday when they noticed that one of the five women was pretending to be pregnant while passing through security screening area at Ernesto Cortissoz International Airport in Barranquilla.
The woman, who was traveling with the rest of the suspects to the capital city of Bogotá, was pulled aside for a secondary inspection.
Airport police detected several plastic wrapped bundles of the Type A party drug wrapped around her abdomen and placed her under arrest.
Police at Ernesto Cortissoz International Airport in Barranquilla, Colombia, intercepted and arrested five women and a man who were trying to fly to Bogota on Friday with 16 and a half kilos of cocaine. Authorities busted the smugglers after they noticed that one of the women was faking a pregnancy by strapping several plastic wrapped bundles of cocaine to her stomach
Authorities at Ernesto Cortissoz International Airport in Barranquilla, Colombia, confiscated 16.5 kilos of cocaine from five women who had 14 bundles of the drug tapped to their abdomens
Subsequently, the flight was temporarily grounded at the gate, allowing officers to search her four female companions, who also had the cocaine packages over their bellies.
At least one of the women went inside the airplane’s bathroom and removed three cocaine bundles before she was also busted.
Colombian newspaper El Heraldo identified the defendants as Olga Charris; Shelian De León; Sharon Naranjo; Laura Sáenz; Angie Contreras; as well as a man who was also arrested named Wilmer Contreras.
In all, authorities were able to seize 14 bundles of cocaine and confiscated an unknown amount of psychedelic drugs that Contreras was in possession of.
Colombian airport police officers at Ernesto Cortissoz International Airport in Barranquilla stopped five women from smuggling 16 and a half kilos of cocaine aboard a Bogotá-bound flight Friday morning
A spokesperson for the Barranquilla Metropolitan Police told DailyMail.com that the six suspects were turned over to the Attorney General’s office and are facing charges that include the manufacture, trafficking or possession of narcotics.
Prosecutors have 36 hours to formally charge each of the six suspects.
Friday’s bust comes after customs agents at El Dorado International Airport in Medellin intercepts a box with six kilos of extasy pills that had been shipped aboard a flight from Madrid on February 12.
Police said the pills were scheduled to be delivered to Cartagena, near Barranquilla, and sold in nightclubs and bars.
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