Who said that America isn’t the sort of place you can come and become famous overnight?
WTOP is reporting that a Nigerian woman was stopped at Dulles Airport on March 14 with 180 pellets of heroin in her stomach—some five pounds of the drug worth over $150,000. With that much heroin, she broke the standing record of four pounds set by one of her fellow countrymen last year. The details:
Authorities say 52-year-old Bola Adebisi ingested 180 thumb-sized pellets filled with $150,000 worth of heroin. She’s been charged with drug smuggling in federal court in Alexandria.
Customs and Border Protection officers became suspicious when she told officers she was coming to the U.S. to visit her brother, but couldn’t describe him. A routine pat-down found her stomach to be abnormally rigid. An X-ray revealed the pellets and she was taken to the hospital.
Adebisi certainly deserves credit for the effort, though she may have lacked in the creativity department. As we detailed last year, drugs come into Dulles in all shapes and sizes, from rotisserie chickens to leg warmers and bed posts.
Martin Austermuhle