Five women were allegedly prosecuted for transporting cocaine in false pregnancy bellies

The Attorney General's Office presented the five women, who were captured, who were identified as Laura Michel Saenz Díaz, Angy Carolina Contreras Chavez, Sharon Andrea Naranjo Rodriguez, Olga Cecilia Charris Alvarez, Shelian Andrea de León Díaz and also Wilmer Andrés Contreras Chavez. Adds the judicial body assured that they were destined for Bogotá.

The events occurred on March 4, when the persons involved managed to circumvent several police checks at Ernesto Cortissoz airport, but the authorities noticed a suspicious attitude in one of the women, so a security officer ordered a search. There they found that he had a belly attached, filled with a substance whose characteristics were similar to those of cocaine.

According to the commander of the Barranquilla Metropolitan Police, General Luis Carlos Hernández, the flight they were going to board was temporarily suspended due to the deployment of the security operation, with which they found the other 4 women who had the same characteristics, “to be pregnant”. At the same time, they found the man who had already put 3 packs of drugs in the bathroom of the plane. According to authorities, 3 other subjects managed to escape, meaning that a total of 9 people were involved in the criminal act.

A total of 14 packages containing 16 kilos of cocaine hydrochloride were seized. The Office of the Prosecutor General prosecuted them for the crime of trafficking, manufacture or carrying of narcotic drugs. A court with guarantees control functions in the municipality of Sabanagrande, Atlántico, sheltered the defendants with house detention; a decision that was appealed by the prosecutor in the case. The defendants pleaded not guilty to the charges against them.

All these actions are being carried out within the framework of “Plan 1000″, a strategy announced by the Minister of Defense, Diego Molano, in January of this year, which envisages,

said the minister.

He added that they have blocked more than 100 websites, from the cyber center of the National Police, which were considered “cyber pots”, which distribute synthetic drugs through social networks.

However, an article published by El Heraldo points out that the method of “false bellies” is very popular in the Atlantic, since several cases have been reported where this form is used to transport drugs.

For example, at the end of last year, the police carried out an operation in the jurisdiction of the municipality of Palmar de Varela, Atlántico, where they stopped an interdepartmental bus to carry out the routine search of passengers. There, they captured a woman who pretended to be pregnant. When she was caught, she decided to deliver 1,655 grams of narcotic drugs that were taped to her abdomen.

The strategy announced by the national government is deployed throughout the country; therefore, daily the National Police and its various institutions report operations and arrests, to individuals or organizations linked to drug trafficking.

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