The detainee, who came from a flight from Colombia and was destined for Madrid (Spain), was approached by the police at the air terminal after suspecting her hairstyle.
After doing a scanner test, the agents were able to observe that between the braids of her natural hair and a wig that the detainee was wearing, she hid drug tablets attached to her head.
According to Rodríguez, the woman, of whom no further details have been given, was wearing “68 cylindrical black wrappers with white powder (inside)” under her wig.
This modality of drug trafficking is “unprecedented” in Panama, Rodríguez added, in a video posted on the Twitter account of the Panama Attorney General’s Office.
According to the prosecutor, the woman will be brought before a court of guarantees for alleged international drug trafficking.
The Panamanian police published on their Twitter account a photo where two agents are seen holding a person, all of them from behind, behind a table with the packages of the alleged drug.
Within the curious modalities of drug trafficking, in 2021 the Panamanian police caught, on the perimeter of a prison, the “narcogato”, a feline that carried cocaine, crack and marijuana tied to his neck, presumably to introduce it in the prison.
Panama is the gateway to Central America for the drug that goes from South America, mainly Colombia, the world’s largest producer of cocaine, to the United States, the world’s largest consumer of this drug.
However, Central American authorities have warned of a significant increase in drug trafficking to Europe through, mainly, the Caribbean ports of the region.
