Spanish police say they have arrested a woman who landed at Madrid’s international airport with 1.7kg of cocaine hidden in her breast implants.Narcotics agents grew suspicious when the 43-year-old Venezuelan woman exhibited unspecified strange behaviour during a routine screening of passengers who had just arrived from Bogota, Colombia.A luggage search showed nothing unusual. But a frisk by female officers revealed irregularities and deformations inboth of the suspect’s breasts.The passenger then “became nervous andconfessed to carrying cocaine implants,” apolice statement said on Friday.The suspected drug smuggler was transferred to a hospital where she was detained for an alleged crime against public health, the statement says.Spain employs a police unit to specifically check passenger arrivals from major drug-producing countries.
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