US Customs Finds 180 Heroin Pellets Inside Woman’s Stomach


A female passenger at Washington’s Dulles International Airport was arrested this week after security officials found a record number of heroin pellets inside her stomach.

The 52-year-old passenger was caught when a TSA agent performing a routine pat-down noticed that her stomach was abnormally tight.

The passenger was taken to the hospital and over the next four days she expelled a total of 180 heroin pellets.

In a statement a customs official revealed:

“The amount of pellets and heroin this woman ingested is incredible, a serious health risk, and very troubling if these numbers become the new normal.”

While another customers agent revealed:

“We were kind of shocked and surprised at the sheer number of pellets she ingested … We usually see men twice her size ingest about half of what she did.”

The size of heroin pouches carried by some drug smugglers does appear to be getting bigger, at the same airport last year a man from Nigeria was stopped and officials eventually found four pounds of heroin in his stomach.

This time around the female passenger was carrying more than $150,000 in street value drugs. She is charged with the importation and attempt to import 100 grams or more of heroin. If convicted she will spend time in a US jail and then be immediately deported bakc to her own country.

Drug runners are becoming ever more risky with their attempts and it looks like it may be exactly what the TSA needs to more openly spot the runners from regular passengers.

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