[size=14pt]Authorities: Woman carried 91 heroin pellets in body[/size]
By Mariano Castillo, CNN
January 6, 2011 1:38 p.m. EST



Authorities took Sherifat Lamidi, 32, to a medical facility, where the 91 pellets were expelled, a news release said.

(CNN) -- In the biggest bust of its kind in recent memory, Customs and Border Protection authorities at the Detroit Metropolitan Airport arrested a woman allegedly carrying 91 pellets of heroin inside her body.
In all, 32-year-old Sherifat Lamidi had swallowed 2½ pounds of the drug, packed inside balloon-like packaging, the agency said.
"As far as we are concerned, this is a significant bust," said Randy Dyer, CBP chief for the airport. He said that other airports with more international arrivals, such as Miami, New York JFK and Atlanta, see more cases of drug mules, or "internal carriers" in official lingo.
"For our location here, it's rare," he told CNN.
Lamidi, a Nigerian citizen, originated her itinerary from her home country and flew to Frankfurt, Germany. Once there, she boarded a Lufthansa Airlines flight to Detroit.
A CBP agent flagged her for a closer inspection upon arrival. Lamidi admitted to authorities that she was carrying narcotics, but she said she did not know exactly what she had swallowed or how much, CBP said.
Authorities took her to a medical facility where, under the supervision of doctors, she "finalized the expulsion" of the 91 pellets, according to a CBP news release.
"Basically, they were balloons with heroin," Dyer said.
Lamidi was arrested at the scene, and prosecution against her was pending, he said.
CNN's Jackie Damico contributed to this report.

http://www.cnn.com/2011/US/01/06/michigan.drug.mule/index.html?hpt=T2

This is suicide attempt. Was she planning to buy Chevron after selling all those drugs?.

Pls i need a doctor 2 explain 2 me how this operation is conducted and the drug concealed. Where exactly in the body is the drug hidden?, is it in the stomach.

aloy/emeka:



This is suicide attempt. Was she planning to buy Chevron  after selling all those drugs?.

can you buy Chevron with $10K?!
thats probably how much this poor soul was going to get for it even though she was carrying 1kg of heroin worth about $100k on the street. more or less

oodo:

Pls i need a doctor 2 explain 2 me how this operation is conducted and the drug concealed. Where exactly in the body is the drug hidden?, is it in the stomach.

its very simple, these people put the drugs in condom like pouch and then swallow it like they would eat eba(some people could easily eat 1kg of food in one taking).
prior to swallowing the drug "bullets, they would take anti constipation/diahrea tablet to make sure that their stomach is "strong".then they go on the plane and travel to whatever destination. when they there, they will then take laxative tablets that would make them go to the toilet and quickly release everything in their stomach, like they were shiitting only that since their stomach is only full of drug bullets, thats what would come out.

the side effect are endless, it could be that the drug is not well packed and therefore burst inside the stomach  (thanks to the acid that we secrete to digest food) and kill the person, it could also get stuck in the stomach and thus the carrier cannot expel the drug therefore eventually falls into a coma and dies.

remember that these people are only mules and therefore if they cant expel the drug (sometimes worth over $250k on the street) on arrival, the "lucky ones" would simply be taken to some phoney doctor who would cut them open and sew them back. . . . . .  but since times is limited (you can only have them in your stomach for so long before the acid get through), the unlucky ones would simply be killed and chopped open guerilla style to get the drug. thats the ugly side of the biz the drug barons dont mention to these poor souls.

some would also have the bullet force into their an.us or vag.inas for more "carriage". believe it or not some people can have 100grams or more in their vagi.nas

there is a great movie about it called MARIA FULL OF GRACE. check it if you ever get the time!

You are asking how she swallowed 91 pellets of heroine?

@mr brownjay,
u dey work for the government? Abi u dey inside?
U get dept for info oh.

^^^^go to youtube and search for BANGED UP AND ABROAD and see all the IN DEPTH real life stories about drug mules.