An unnamed Brit was arrested at an airport in Colombia as he attempted to board a flight to Panama as officers discovered two kilos of cocaine under a sombrero in his bag
Police at Rafael Núñez International Airport discover drugs in suitcase
A Brit was pounced on by police at an airport in Colombia when two kilos of cocaine was discovered hidden under a sombrero in a secret section of his suitcase.
The unnamed suspect was attempting to board a flight to Panama when he was stopped by police as he went through an X-ray scanner at Rafael Nunez International Airport. After the flight, he was due to travel on to Istanbul, Turkey – although his final destination is currently unknown.
Two kilos of the illegal drugs were found inside a false bottom of the suitcase and were laid out in front of him by a sign reading ‘COCAINA’ in capital letters. He was asked in English through an interpreter if it was his luggage before it was opened in front of him.
A test was carried out at the airport which turned a telltale blue, confirming the presence of the drug and his mugshot was taken between two police officers. It is not known if he has already appeared before a judge to be remanded in custody, pending an ongoing investigation.
It comes four weeks after a Scottish man was held after two kilos of cocaine were also found in his suitcase as he tried to fly out of the same airport. Ricky Grant Courage, 32, from Aberdeen, was planning to fly back to the UK with the drugs via Amsterdam. He is currently being held in a hellhole local prison on remand. It is not known if the two cases could be linked.
In April, a British student was arrested after being caught smuggling cocaine disguised as milk out of Colombia. The 25-year-old was stopped as he tried to board a plane to London from Alfonso Bonilla Aragon International Airport near the city of Cali.
Officers opened up the packets of powdered milk he was carrying in front of him before doing a drug colour test at the airport to confirm they contained the illegal class-A substance.
The Brit, named locally as Fahad Uddin Ahmed and described as a student, was made to pose in front of his illegal drugs stash by Colombian police before being taken away prisoner. Local reports at the time said the plane he was planning to board was bound for London with a connection in the German city of Frankfurt. He is said to have been carrying the cocaine inside four bags, marked Klim, in his hand luggage.
Last October a British model who flaunted his jet set lifestyle on social media was jailed for seven years in Peru after being caught trying to fly out of the country with £300,000 of cocaine. Londoner Modou Dodou Adams wowed his thousands of social media fans with his trendsetting looks and VIP globetrotting under the self-styled moniker of ‘boywholives’ in a show of excess branded by authorities as a front for his criminal activities.
His apparent world of glamour was left in tatters after he confessed to being a drug trafficker and was told he now faces the next six years and eight months in a hellhole South American jail. Adams, 25, was held at Lima’s international airport as he tried to check in for a flight to London via Paris with almost three kilos of cocaine in his suitcase.
He was handed his sentence in a quickie trial 24 hours after his arrest by the same police force which held Michaella McCollum and Melissa Reid, the so-called Peru Two in August 2013.
