FoxNews.com | September
16, 2011
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| This handout medical
image released by the Brazilian Federal Police shows cocaine-stuffed bags inside the gastrointestinal tract of a 20-year-old Irish national arrested by police at Congonhas airport in Sao Paulo, Brazil, on September 12 |
Authorities have
released X-ray images of an Irish national they allege swallowed dozens of
cocaine capsules in an attempt to smuggle the drug out of Brazil.
The 20-year-old man,
identified only as P.B.B., was arrested on Monday at Sao Paolo's Congonhas
airport as he tried to board a flight to Lisbon en route to Brussels, the Irish
Independent reports.
Medical-imaging
photographs released by Brazilian authorities show 72 bags of cocaine in the
man's gastrointestinal tract, or nearly a kilogram of the narcotic. Police were
alerted after authorities noticed his nervous behavior, the paper reports.
The drugs were
estimated to have been worth roughly $200,000. The suspect has been
charged with international drug trafficking and faces up to 15 years in prison,
the paper reports.
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