New Record Set For Drug Smuggling
A new record has been set in cocaine drug busts, as the drug police confiscated almost 2 kilos of the white powder from a man at the Juan Santamaría (San José) international airport as he was attempting to leave the country. The record is not for the amount, but rather for the way the drug was being carried: in his stomach.

Airport authorities detected that the man could be a drug mule and after his detention, the Costa Rican man identified only by his last names, Rodríguez Céspedes, was found to be carrying 122 ovules of the drug, for a total o 1,830 grams, in the bowels of his stomach.

Surgery was performed on the man to remove the small packets.

The practice is a dangerous one in that if one of the ovules break, the person is certain to die within hours.

Airport police say that they detect between 1 and 2 people a week trying to smuggle drugs outside the country and use ingenous ways to fool detection, including hiding the drugs in false bottom suitcases, surf boards and in one case, neatly hidden in the lining of a wig.

A great number of the detained are heading for Europe and their immigination has no limits in finding new way to occult the contraband.

So far this year police report to have detained 26 "burros" at the Juan Santamaría.