Anything to declare, madam? Nigerian woman arrives in U.S. with these 180 heroin capsules inside her7 Z3 ^9 w4 j% \
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$ H: \* s* }4 ?: H# c! qCustoms officials at Dulles International Airport say a Nigerian woman set an unfortunate record when she tried to smuggle almost five pounds of heroin into the country.公仔箱論壇# ~3 T, Q$ t0 t& S, B
. W; Z& b- a( S4 z: h& F公仔箱論壇Authorities say 52-year-old Bola Adebisi ingested 180 thumb-sized pellets filled with heroin.
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5 F8 ?9 t+ u3 m; o7 rOfficers became suspicious of her Saturday when she was questioned by border patrol officials after arriving on Ethiopian Airlines flight 500 which originated in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia and stopped in Rome, Italy.
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Heavy load: Bola Adebisi, 52, was taken to hospital and kept there until she passed these 180 pellets- approximately 5lbs- of heroin naturally
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She said she was coming to the U.S. to visit her brother, but couldn't describe him or say his address.
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+ L8 K9 U& _( h" h0 ntvb now,tvbnow,bttvbA routine pat-down following the questioning found her stomach to be abnormally rigid which set off mental warning bells. % G s! e7 a, i, t: d0 f8 |( \
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) Y: v# h- a( e9 P' mtvb now,tvbnow,bttvbShe stayed overnight in the hospital until doctors confirmed that she had passed all of the pellets.
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Hotspot: Last year, the record number of heroin smuggled into Dulles airport, in Virginia near Washington, D.C., was 100 pellets (about 4lbs)
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‘The amount of pellets and heroin this woman ingested is incredible, a serious health risk, and very troubling if these numbers become the new normal,’ said Christopher Hess, director of Customs and Border Patrol for Washington, D.C.
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She now faces a felony drug smuggling charge.
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3 f' f- z( ~* ~! C3 @6 J& n0 stvb now,tvbnow,bttvbThe previous record for an ingested drug seizure at Dulles occurred last year, when another Nigerian was discovered with more than four pounds of pellets.
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( k9 s3 Q+ k% c' U+ w6 U' oThat time, the illegal stunt was done by a 46-year-old man and, for comparison, only involved 100 pellets.
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