bdmetronews Desk ॥ A woman was allegedly caught trying to smuggle cannabis through a police checkpoint in a fake baby bump.
Pictures taken of the suspect after her arrest in Valle de Uco, near Mendoza, in Argentina, showed 15 cannabis bricks strapped to her stomach.
The drug packages, which weighed a total of four kilos, had been bound using starch-based paste.
The woman, who has not been identified, had been searched after her male companion was found with two marijuana bricks.
They had been travelling on a coach when it was stopped near Argentina’s border with Chile.
Minister for Security Patricia Bullrich posted images of the unnamed woman on Twitter, writing: “She made a belly out of paste, hid 15 cannabis bricks inside it and faked a pregnancy before trying to take it form Mendoza to Santa Cruz.
“At a police control the pretend mum-to-be and her accomplice were arrested. This is how she tried to smuggle the drugs.”
