On Mothers' Day, woman jailed in drug case

On Mother’s Day when she should have been receiving gifts from grateful children, a woman was on Thursday sentenced to 10 years in jail by the Dubai Criminal Court of First Instance for transporting 2.066kg of cocaine hidden in secret pockets made in her underwear.

SR, 29, from Thailand, was also fined Dh50,000 and ordered to be deported after completing her jail term.

According to the records, the woman arrived at Dubai Airport on December 7 as a transit passenger.  Being suspected, First Corporal Fatima Mohammed was assigned to search her.

“Searching her hand bag, I did not find any banned item. However, searching her body, I noticed abnormal thickness around her waist. I found that pockets had been made in a bandage she was wearing around her waist where cocaine was hidden in three plastic packets. I also found a secret pocket in her underwear in which five plastic packets containing cocaine were hidden,” testified the officer.

The accused admitted to transporting the drugs which she was supposed to hand over to someone in Brazil for $4,000.


 

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