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alp227

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Wed Oct 2, 2013, 02:44 AM Oct 2013

Feds: Flight attendant smuggled heroin to Orlando

A JetBlue flight attendant smuggled heroin, shaped to resemble chocolate candy, under her uniform during a trip from Colombia to Orlando, federal agents say.

Customs officers made the discovery Friday afternoon when they began screening passengers and employees exiting a JetBlue flight from Bogota to Orlando International Airport.

According to a federal criminal complaint, Carla Michelle Alvarado told customs officers during a screening that she hid items in a garment under her flight-attendant uniform.

Officers found multiple hard oval pellets that looked like chocolate candy. But they were really about 940 grams — or just over two pounds — of heroin, the criminal complaint said.

full: http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/breakingnews/os-heroin-smuggle-jetblue-flight-20131001,0,6615544.story

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Europe is getting flooded with Heroin too Ichingcarpenter Oct 2013 #1
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