$250.000 Cash In Her
Backpack Lands Mexican Woman In Jail
Smuggling cash out of Costa Rica has become
a headache for the airport authorities, with
the arrest on Sunday of a Mexican woman
carrying some us$250.000 dollars in her
carry on luggage.
So far this year, the Policía Control de
Drogas (PCD) - drug enforcement police -
have seized more than us$532.000 dollars in
cash from various travelling heading out of
San José's Juan Santamaría International
airport.
The woman is now in the hands of judicial
officials, mainly the Fiscalía de Alajuela,
who will be looking for preventive detention
and begin their investigation into origin of
the cash.
Days earlier (Friday), Costa Rican
authorities arrested two Mexican nationals
with more than a ton of cocaine that was
expected headed north. Police found the
stash during a raid of home near Miramar,
Puntarenas, following reports by area
residents of strange activity coming from
the residential home that was being used as
a warehouse to store and pack drugs for
shipment. |
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