Woman with 1.5kg of cocaine in breast implants arrested in Colombia

Colombia police said on Monday that a Honduran woman, carrying 1.5 kg of liquid cocaine in her breast implants, was arrested at the Colombian airport in Bogota.

Airport police, Col. Diego Rosero-Paola, said 22 year-old Deyanira Sabillon was attempting to travel to Spain, when her apparent nervousness aroused suspicion in the security line.

X-rays revealed that surgery had recently been carried out on her breasts and round £150,000-worth of cocaine had been planted inside.

Rosero-Paola said during interrogation that she confessed that an unknown substance had been implanted in her breast which she was meant to take to Barcelona.

The officer said a preliminary investigation showed that the surgery took place at a clandestine clinic, in the city of Pereira, in western Colombia.

Rosero-Paola said the implants were removed at a Bogota hospital where Sabillon was also being treated for an infection.