Two women arrested in Panama for trying to smuggle drugs in an unprecedented way
Yesterday, the authorities of Tocumen International Airport in Panama arrested two Colombian women who were planning to smuggle a quantity of cocaine to Spain by hiding it under their wigs, according to the Public Prosecution Office in the Central American country.
The Public Prosecutor for Drug Control in Panama, Xiomara Rodriguez, initially announced the arrest of one Colombian woman who was on a flight to Madrid.
Police intercepted the woman at the airport after her hairstyle aroused suspicion.
After examining her with a scanner, police officers found that the suspect was hiding narcotic pills in her head between her natural hair braids and wigs.
Rodriguez noted that the woman, who did not give any other details about her, carried 68 black cylindrical packages containing white powder under her wig.
Rodriguez added, according to "AFP" in a video clip posted on the Public Prosecution's account on Twitter, that this method of drug smuggling is unprecedented in Panama.
A few hours later, the Public Prosecutor's Office announced the arrest of a second woman in possession of 67 drug packages hidden under her wig, who was also on her way from Colombia to Spain.
Sources in the Public Prosecutor's Office indicated that the second arrested woman is also Colombian.
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