A 28 year old Panamanian woman was stopped at El Prat airport in Barcelona after officials thought she was ‘acting funny’. They discovered a blood-soaked bandage on her chest as the result of having had an operation to have 1.8 kilos of cocaine implanted under the skin, much like a regular breast implant.
The wound on her chest from the surgery looked bad but the woman told officials she was not experiencing any pain. She was rushed to a medical centre where 1.8 kilos of cocaine were removed. The drugs were sealed in plastic bags. Her arrest probably saved her life according to police as she may not have survived much longer with such quantities of the drug in her body.