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Guyanese woman, 70, found with underwear-filled coke
New York (New York Daily News) – A 70-year-old Guyanese woman’s buns of
The woman was wearing this clothing when she was held.
steel were actually bags of cocaine, officials said Monday.
Federal officers say they removed four pounds of cocaine from the thighs and buttocks area of the elderly woman who was allegedly hiding the drugs in her underwear and girdle.
Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers immediately became suspicious of Olive Fowler, 70, after she arrived at John F. Kennedy International Airport on a Caribbean Airlines flight from Georgetown on April 11.
Fowler was “sweating profusely and avoiding eye contact with officers,” according to the complaint in Brooklyn Federal Court.
After patting her down, the officers felt a “dense hard material” under her clothes.
Fowler’s concrete curves were revealed to be two pairs of compression shorts over her underwear which contained a bag containing alleged cocaine.
A CBP spokesman said the coke has a street value of US$73,000.
“This seizure is just another example of our CBP officers being ever vigilant in protecting the United States from the distribution of these illicit drugs,” said Robert E. Perez, director of the New York field office of CBP.
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