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Dope mule bottoms out
Toronto Sun ^ | 2002-08-28 | Tom Godfrey

Posted on 08/28/2002 5:40:06 AM PDT by Lorenb420

A 28-year-old American has become the butt of jokes by Pearson airport workers after she was busted trying to smuggle 2.2 kilos of cocaine, worth $275,000, in fake buttocks.

The Georgia woman was travelling with a one-year-old child in a stroller when arrested last Saturday night at Terminal 1, Canada Customs spokesman Mark Butler said yesterday.

The woman was detained for proceedings in Brampton court.

"We have never seen this sort of body packing before," Butler said. "We usually find drugs in fake legs or torsos."

He said the incident occurred as the family arrived from the Caribbean island of St. Maarten, where they were on holidays.

Undercover officers patrolling a Customs Hall detected something suspicious in the woman's behaviour and sent her for a secondary check, Butler said.

"Sometimes the body packers may walk funny or something just doesn't seem natural," he said.

Officers said the coke was found in compartments sewed into the buttocks of tights the woman was wearing.

HEADING FOR BORDER

"The drugs were inside her clothing in the buttocks area," Butler said.

"Sometimes people feel if they travel with children they will avoid Customs detection."

Police suspect the woman was travelling through Pearson to avoid stringent passenger checks in the U.S. following Sept. 11. She was slated to drive across the border.

Stacia Patricia Niles, 28, of Stone Mountain, Ga., has been charged with conspiracy to import narcotics into Canada.


TOPICS: Canada; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: crackcocaine; drug; moron; mule

1 posted on 08/28/2002 5:40:06 AM PDT by Lorenb420
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To: Lorenb420
Was she smuggling CRACK cocaine?
2 posted on 08/28/2002 5:42:06 AM PDT by VRWCmember
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To: Lorenb420
Baby got back!
3 posted on 08/28/2002 5:49:55 AM PDT by LouD
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To: Lorenb420
Tights security there.
4 posted on 08/28/2002 5:50:39 AM PDT by Charles Henrickson
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To: Lorenb420; g'nad
Does this dope make my butt look big?
5 posted on 08/28/2002 6:02:18 AM PDT by Overtaxed
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To: Lorenb420
We need to put an end to this type of behavior.
6 posted on 08/28/2002 6:04:49 AM PDT by Drango
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To: Lorenb420
Release the puns of Hell!!!
7 posted on 08/28/2002 6:07:56 AM PDT by flying Elvis
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To: Lorenb420
Those poor drug addicts, completely unaware they are sniffing someone's ass crack.
8 posted on 08/28/2002 6:09:29 AM PDT by flying Elvis
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To: flying Elvis
Cheek & Thong.
9 posted on 08/28/2002 6:11:45 AM PDT by Charles Henrickson
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To: Lorenb420
This confirms it, Hillary is smuggling Bills drugs.
10 posted on 08/28/2002 6:17:21 AM PDT by Piquaboy
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To: Lorenb420
This must be more common than we know, given the way I have been "examined" by drug sniffing dogs in the Miami airport...
11 posted on 08/28/2002 6:26:41 AM PDT by maximus@Nashville
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To: Lorenb420
All these wits and their comments have me laughing out loud! Great way to start the day...thanks!
12 posted on 08/28/2002 6:28:37 AM PDT by Dudoight
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To: Lorenb420
These kids today...they don't know what real mule work is. In my day, you didn't use fake buttocks, you stuffed the dope up there for real...uphill, both ways.
13 posted on 08/28/2002 6:30:43 AM PDT by Wolfie
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To: Wolfie
I am now laughing my butt off!
14 posted on 08/28/2002 6:33:39 AM PDT by Dudoight
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