ST. THOMAS — A girl is dealing with federal drug trafficking costs after luggage of frozen shrimp in her baggage have been allegedly discovered to be hiding bricks of cocaine.
Selena Cabrera Ortiz and her touring companion have been at Cyril E. King Airport on June 23, and underwent the same old Transportation Safety Administration screening of departing passengers earlier than their flight of American Airways at John F. Kennedy Airport in New York. Ortiz despatched his blue suitcase by means of the X-ray machine, and the TSA worker working the machine seen what seemed to be an oblong object in a big frozen mass.
Pulling the suitcase for a bodily examination, officers found two freezer luggage within the baggage, every containing frozen shrimp. Nonetheless, they noticed black plastic protruding of one of many lots of seafood, and known as Customs and Border Safety brokers for additional investigation.
Ortiz and his touring companion have been then escorted to the secondary inspection space the place the girl's baggage was additional screened. The 2 freezer luggage contained three packages of frozen shrimp, they found. A kind of packages was discovered to be hiding two bricks of a white powdery substance, whereas every of the opposite two packages of shrimp contained one brick every of an analogous substance. There was a complete of 4.17 kilograms of suspected narcotics, which when examined returned a constructive outcome for cocaine.
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