Woman heroin hair cream, Woman tried to smuggle heroin in hair cream, cops say A woman who flew to New York City from Colombia tried to smuggle heroin by mixing it with hair cream, police say. Here are some other strange ways cops say people have tried to smuggle drugs and paraphernalia:A woman was caught trying to smuggle class A drugs into the U.S. by mixing it with hair products.Emilce Cardona was seized at John F. Kennedy International Airport carrying more than eight lbs of a mixture of hair treatment and heroin when she arrived from Bogota, Colombia.She is facing drug smuggling charges after inspectors found 38 packets of 'Repara Deep T' hair treatment containing heroin in her luggage, U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials said today.
Inspectors grew suspicious of the large amount of products as Cardona passed through customs on July 25 and they were found to contain the classified drug.
Robert E. Perez, Director or Field Operations New York told DNAinfo.com: ‘This latest seizure demonstrates the steadfastness of the Customs and Border Protection officers on the ground to detect, detain and deter those who would try to import these illegal substances.
‘CBP is ever vigilant in our daily battle in combating the flow of illicit narcotics from entering the United States.’This is the latest sensational drugs bust where smugglers have attempted to hide classified drugs in everyday products.
Two weeks ago Rogelio Mauricio Harris, 34, was arrested on for attempting to smuggle four pounds of methamphetamine hidden in 45 Snickers bars from the U.S. to Japan but was fortunately caught at Los Angeles International Airport.U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials had become suspicious of Harris after discovering that he had booked a ticket to Japan only two days before departure with a return three days later.
Harris insisted that he was just travelling to Japan to visit his girlfriend, 'who lived in Hong Kong'.
When officers told him that Japan and Hong Kong were two separate countries, he responded 'They are?'
When officials checked his luggage they seized the chocolate which upon inspection was found to contain densely packed methamphetamine dipped in a ‘chocolate-like substance’.
Closer to home two drug smugglers were jailed at Ipswich Crown Court on Wednesday after attempting to smuggle £34 million worth of cocaine in pineapple boxes.
Company director Terrance Smith, 58, and companion Frederick Colverson, 56, were jailed for a total of 45 years for their part in the biggest ever drugs haul discovered in Suffolk.
Officers found 174kg of high-grade cocaine hidden in the bottom of pineapple crates, in a storage unit last October.
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