A Venezuelan female nurse was caught at the airport at 3 a.m. yesterday for smuggling 4.1 kilogrammes of cocaine hidden in the lining of her suitcase, a Judiciary Police (PJ) spokesperson said during a special briefing yesterday.
According to the spokesperson, the drugs have a street value of about 12 million patacas.
After receiving a tip-off that traffickers were planning to smuggle drugs into the city hidden in the linings of their suitcases, the police strengthened their inspections of arriving passengers’ luggage.
Judiciary Police (PJ) officers escort the hooded female Venezuelan drug-smuggling suspect from the airport to a police vehicle yesterday. – Photos: Iong Tat Choi
PJ officers show reporters the suspect's specially prepared drug-smuggling suitcase at the airport yesterday.
