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| SAO PAULO – Federal Police (PF) at Congonhas International Airport in Sao Paulo arrested a 20-year-old Irishman on Wednesday with cocaine hidden inside his body. According to PF, the young man boarded a flight to Brussels, with stops in Rio de Janeiro and Lisbon, while hiding 72 capsules of cocaine weighing 830 grams in his stomach.
Cocaine in intestinal tract (photo: O Globo)
The man arrived from abroad on Monday. Asked about the reasons for his trip to Brazil, the man was unable to explain and eventually he confessed to carrying drugs in his stomach. Police took the man to Hospital Santa Casa de Misericordia de Sao Paulo where doctors recovered the drugs.
Police booked the Irishman into jail and charged him with international drug trafficking, in flagrante dilecto. The penalty is 5 to 15 years imprisonment.
Brazilian online news source: O Globo
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So gross!
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