The Sunday News
Bogota — A Honduran woman carrying 1,5kg of liquid cocaine in her breast implants has been arrested at the airport in Colombia’s capital, police say. Paola Deyanira Sabillon, 22, was attempting to travel to Spain when her apparent nervousness aroused suspicion in the security line, said airport police colonel Diego Rosero. X-rays revealed a recent surgery on Sabillon’s breasts and she confessed that an unknown substance had been implanted which she was meant to take to Barcelona, police added.
Authorities said a preliminary investigation showed that the surgery took place at a clandestine clinic in the city of Pereira, in western Colombia.
The implants were removed at a Bogota hospital where Sabillon is also being treated for an infection.
Some 300 tons of cocaine are produced every year in Colombia, long a hub for drug production and trafficking. — Reuters
