79-year-old caught with heroin on flight to NY
A 79-year-old woman has been caught attempting to smuggle heroin out of Colombia on a flight to New York, police said today.
The Colombian woman, whose name was not released, was arrested yesterday at Bogota’s El Dorado Airport after inspectors found 2.8 kilograms of heroin in her bag, said Col. Nicolas Munoz, chief of airport police.
The woman was the oldest “mule”, as drug couriers are called, to be captured at the airport, police said.
So far this year, 107 people have been arrested at the airport for attempting to smuggle drugs, including 74 Colombians and 33 foreigners.
A total of 2,036 kilograms of cocaine and 155 kilograms of heroin has been seized at the airport this year.
Colombia is by far the world’s biggest producer of cocaine and also produces much of the world’s heroin.
