Irish Man Reportedly Caught With 72 Cocaine Capsules in Stomach
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}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.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}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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