The Judiciary Police (PJ) arrested a Brazilian man at the local airport when he was smuggling cocaine into Macau on Saturday, with 30 oval pellets hidden in his underpants and his right sock, while four pellets were found inside his body, PJ spokesman Leng Kam Lon said during a special press conference yesterday.
The suspect flew from Brazil via Ethiopia and Shanghai to Macau. The suspect initially swallowed all 34 pellets, but when he was about to take a connecting flight to Macau at Shanghai Pudong International Airport, he excreted 30 of the pellets as he felt unwell and hid them in his underpants and right sock, according to Leng.
Leng identified the suspect as a 34-year-old surnamed Ramos who told the police that he works as a driver in Brazil. The suspect was hired by a drug-trafficking gang in his country to smuggle the cocaine into Macau.
Cocaine wrapped as oval pellets, cash, and other evidence seized by the police are displayed in a pressroom of the Judiciary Police (PJ) headquarters in Zape yesterday.
PJ officers escort the hooded drug-trafficking suspect from Brazil to a PJ vehicle outside the PJ headquarters yesterday. Photos: Iong Tat Choi
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