A Venezuelan woman with 1.7 kilos of cocaine hidden in her breast implants was arrested at Madrid airport after arriving on a flight from Colombia, police said Friday. "During a check of passengers from a plane from Bogota, the gestures and behaviour of a supposed tourist raised the suspicions of narcotics agents," they said in a statement.
After a baggage search revealed nothing, female officers conducted a body search of the 43-year-old woman and discovered "certain irregularities and deformations in both breasts". At that moment, the suspect started to act nervously and "confessed that she was carrying implants with cocaine inside," the statement said. The woman was taken to a hospital where the implants were removed and found to contain 1.7 kilos (3.74 pounds) of the drug. Although unusual, it is not the first time Spanish police have seen drug smugglers using breast implants to try to beat detection.