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<h2 class="has-text-color has-medium-font-size wp-block-heading" style="color:#473939"><strong>Female drug smugglers arrested at Colombian airport with &#8216;fake baby bump filled with cocaine&#8217; on Friday morning </strong></h2>



<h2 class="has-text-color has-medium-font-size wp-block-heading" style="color:#473939"><strong>Her four female travelling companions, all with packs of cocaine strapped to their middle also arrested<strong> at ;Ernesto Cortissoz International Airport in Barranquilla, Colombia</strong> </strong></h2>



<h2 class="has-text-color has-medium-font-size wp-block-heading" style="color:#473939"><strong>Airport police in Colombia recovered 16 and a half kilos of cocaine </strong></h2>



<h2 class="has-text-color has-medium-font-size wp-block-heading" style="color:#473939"><strong>The bust Police said arrests occurred when ;police units ;attached to the airport police station profiled five passengers who, apparently, pretended to be pregnant </strong></h2>



<h2 class="has-text-color has-medium-font-size wp-block-heading" style="color:#473939"><strong>Cops pulled her to the side to performed an inspection and found several plastic wrapped bundles of cocaine taped over her belly </strong></h2>



<h2 class="has-text-color has-medium-font-size wp-block-heading" style="color:#473939"><strong>The flight she was scheduled to board was halted at the gate and were able to find her other companions with cocaine wrapped around their abdomen</strong></h2>



<h2 class="has-text-color has-medium-font-size wp-block-heading" style="color:#473939"><strong>The drug mules were identified Olga Charris, Shelian De León, Sharon Naranjo, Laura Sáenz and Angie Contreras as well as a man who was also arrested named Wilmer Contreras.  ; ;</strong></h2>



<h2 class="has-text-color has-medium-font-size wp-block-heading" style="color:#473939"><strong>A man identified as <strong>Wilmer Contreras</strong></strong>, <strong>who was traveling with the woman was also taken into custody for drug trafficking </strong></h2>



<figure class="wp-block-image is-resized"><img src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Five-female-Colombian-drug-smugglers-arrested-1.jpg" alt="This image has an empty alt attribute; its file name is Five-female-Colombian-drug-smugglers-arrested-1.jpg" width="841" height="458"/><figcaption><strong>Police at ;Ernesto Cortissoz International Airport in Barranquilla, Colombia, intercepted and arrested five women and a man who were trying to fly to Bogota on Friday with 16 and a half kilos of cocaine. </strong></figcaption></figure>



<p>Five women were arrested on suspicion of cocaine smuggling at a Colombian airport after airport police caught one of them concealing the drug in a fake baby bump. <br>The bust early Friday when they noticed that one member of a group female travelers was pretending to be pregnant while passing through security screening area at Ernesto Cortissoz International Airport in Barranquilla. <br>Police at the airport intercepted and arrested five women and a man who were trying to fly to Bogota on Friday with 16 and a half kilos of cocaine. </p>



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</div><figcaption><strong>Airport police in Colombia parade five female drug smugglers and their male companion caught moving cocaine in fake baby bump</strong></figcaption></figure>



<p>Authorities indicated that “the arrests occurred when ;police units ;attached to the airport police station profiled five passengers who, apparently, pretended to be pregnant. ;<br>While conducting the body search, they realized that the baby bump was false. Inside the contraption the searchers found some packages that contained a powdery substance that on later tests proved to be cocaine. ;<br>Immediately, the temporary suspension of the flight was ordered while the uniformed officers carried out searches of other passengers who were in the waiting room. ; ;</p>



<figure class="wp-block-image size-full is-resized"><img src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Ernesto-Cortissoz-International-Airport-in-Barranquilla-Colombia-1.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-401677" width="842" height="599"/><figcaption><strong>Authorities at ;Ernesto Cortissoz International Airport in Barranquilla, Colombia, confiscated 16.5 kilos of cocaine from five women who had 14 bundles of the drug tapped to their abdomens</strong></figcaption></figure>



<p>The suspect&#8217;s four female companions were also searched and found to similarly have cocaine packages strapped to their abdomen. <br>Airport security said the women&#8217;s male companion man had gone to the plane&#8217;s bathroom and abandoned ;three packages ;containing cocaine before he was also busted. <br>Colombian newspaper ;<a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://www.elheraldo.co/judicial/cinco-mujeres-fingieron-estar-embarazadas-para-llevar-droga-en-barranquilla-892102" target="_blank">El Heraldo ;</a>identified the women as Olga Charris, Shelian De León, Sharon Naranjo, Laura Sáenz and Angie Contreras. <br>Their male travelling companion was identified as Wilmer Contreras was placed in custody. <br>In all, authorities were able to seize 14 bundles of cocaine and confiscated an unknown amount of psychedelic drugs that Contreras was in possession of.</p>



<figure class="wp-block-image size-full is-resized"><img src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Cocaine-seized-at-Colombian-airport-from-pregnant-woman-1.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-401678" width="841" height="442"/><figcaption><strong>Colombian airport police officers at ;Ernesto Cortissoz International Airport in Barranquilla stopped five women from smuggling 16 and a half kilos of cocaine aboard a Bogotá-bound flight Friday morning</strong></figcaption></figure>



<p>The six suspects were turned over to the Attorney General’s office. They face charges that include the manufacture, trafficking or possession of narcotics. <br>Prosecutors have 36 hours to formally charge each of the six suspects. <br>Friday’s bust comes after customs agents at El Dorado International Airport in Medellin intercepts a box with six kilos of ecstasy pills that had been shipped aboard a flight from Madrid on February 12. <br>Police said the pills were scheduled to be delivered to Cartagena, near Barranquilla, and sold in nightclubs and bars.</p>

Five female travelers arrested for drug smuggling, ‘after one of them was caught at Colombian airport with fake baby bump filled with cocaine’
