{"id":440,"date":"2009-06-19T19:43:14","date_gmt":"2009-06-19T19:43:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.dropcents.com\/blog\/?p=440"},"modified":"2009-06-19T21:25:35","modified_gmt":"2009-06-19T21:25:35","slug":"the-cocaine-suitcase-bust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.dropcents.com\/blog\/the-cocaine-suitcase-bust\/","title":{"rendered":"The Cocaine Suitcase Bust"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dropcents.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/cocaine-bricks.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-441\" title=\"cocaine-bricks\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dropcents.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/cocaine-bricks.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"226\" height=\"170\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Police in Chile say they have arrested a woman bound for Spain who was carrying suitcases made from &#8211; rather than filled with cocaine.Officials pulled the woman aside and decided to search her bags when she acted nervously, reports said.Their suspicions were<!--more--> further aroused when they found the two bags were heavier than their contents.<\/p>\n<p>The black suitcases were made from a mixture of pure cocaine and plastic and each weighed more than 20 kilos (44lb).The cocaine, which was later extracted by authorities using a chemical process, was reported to weigh up to 15 kilos.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In this case, the suitcases were the drug,&#8221; police inspector Leandro Morales was quoted as saying.<\/p>\n<p>The 24-year-old Argentine woman carrying the bags had stopped in the Chilean capital, Santiago on her way from Argentina to Madrid.<\/p>\n<p>She initially said she was going to visit friends on holiday, but later confessed to smuggling drugs, Mr Morales said.<\/p>\n<p>She would have received a payment of $5,000 (\u00c2\u00a33,070) if she had delivered the suitcases, he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00c2\u00a0 Police in Chile say they have arrested a woman bound for Spain who was carrying suitcases made from &#8211; rather than filled with cocaine.Officials pulled the woman aside and decided to search her bags when she acted nervously, reports said.Their suspicions were<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[69],"class_list":["post-440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-cocaine-bricks-airport-suitcase","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dropcents.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dropcents.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dropcents.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dropcents.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dropcents.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.dropcents.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dropcents.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dropcents.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dropcents.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}