BODY PACKER

Cocaine is usually smuggled into the United States in boats, trucks, or airplanes.  However, there is another method of smuggling cocaine that is more life threatening.  The method is called "body packing."  The "packer" fills little balloons or finger cots with cocaine and swallows them.

The smuggler boards a plane and, upon arrival in the United States, rents a motel room.  He then gives himself an enema, and after he has expelled the cocaine he fishes the balloons out of the toilet bowl and sells the cocaine.  The trouble arises when a balloon breaks or leaks while still in the smuggler's intestine.

The man in this picture was found dead in a motel room.  He had a Colombian passport in his possession.  In his intestine, he had 86 finger cots filled with cocaine.  Several of these had ruptured, as you can see in the photograph at right.

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