A traveler arriving at JFK Airport from Punta Cana was caught smuggling cocaine hidden inside her wheelchair, federal authorities said.
officers interviewed the woman, who had gotten off a flight from Punta Cana. They noticed that her wheelchair's wheels weren't turning, officials said. They X-rayed the chair and "noticed an anomaly in all four wheels."
The officers probed the wheels and found a white powder, which tested positive for cocaine, CBP said in a news release. They seized about 28 pounds of cocaine, which has an estimated street value of nearly half a million dollars, the feds said. and turned her over to Homeland Security Investigations.
The agency is "determined in working with our partners to identify the trans-national criminal networks responsible for importing these deadly drugs into our neighborhoods," CBP New York Field Operations Director Francis Russo said in a statement.
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