Prosecutor Siomara Rodrεςguez, who specializes in drug trafficking, initially announced the arrest of a Colombian woman on a flight to Madrid. She aroused suspicion in the airport police because of her hair.
Two Colombians were arrested Friday at Panama’s Tocumen International Airport while trying to travel to Spain carrying cocaine hidden in wigs, the Central American country’s public prosecutor’s office announced.
Prosecutor Siomara Rodrεςguez, who specializes in drug trafficking, initially announced the arrest of a Colombian woman on a flight to Madrid. She aroused suspicion in the airport police because of her hair.
After examination with a special device, experts found that in her wig was cocaine hidden in “68 cylindrical black packages”.
“It’s an unprecedented method of trafficking in Panama,” Rodriguez said in a video uploaded to the Panamanian Attorney General’s Twitter account.
Hours later, the attorney general announced the arrest of a “second woman” with “67 packages” of white powder also hidden in a wig. And she was traveling from Colombia to Spain. Sources confirmed that the second detainee is Colombian.
Among the most bizarre forms of drug trafficking was the one faced by Panamanian police in 2021: the “drug cat” carrying cocaine, crack and marijuana in packages around her neck.
Panama is the main gateway to Central America for drugs from South America, primarily Colombia, the country with the highest cocaine production in the world, to the United States, the country with the highest consumption in the world.
The Central American authorities, however, record a large increase in drug trafficking to Europe, mainly through ports in the Caribbean.
