The Cape Verde Judicial Police (PJ) said on Wednesday that a foreign woman was arrested at Cape Verde’s Praia International Airport for transporting 23 cocaine capsules in her stomach, partly taken from a hospital.
The Cape Verde Scientific Police said the arrest was made on August 7 by the Judicial Police’s Central Drug Trafficking and Organized Crime Investigation Unit as part of the prevention and suppression of illegal international traffic by air.
A 23-year-old woman, whose foreign nationality has not been released, was arrested at the crime scene at Nelson Mandela International Airport with 23 cocaine capsules in her stomach.
On charges of international drug trafficking, the detainee was brought before a court the next day, which used preventive detention as a coercive measure.
However, the legalization of the detention was achieved only on August 9, as particles of the drug were still in the suspect’s stomach, which they got only in the hospital, where she was under medical supervision until August 13, the day of her arrest. taken to Beach Central Jail.
Author: Lusa
Source: CM Jornal
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