The Caribbean police stopped an 11-year-old stopped who could turn out to be the the world’s youngest drug mule. Upon examining the child, it was discovered that she was smuggling over 100 cocaine capsules in her stomach.
She was merely hours away from boarding a flight to Madrid, Spain, with her father when one of the capsules exploded. She was immediately rushed to the hospital and there she underwent a lifesaving operation to remove the remaining 103 capsules from her stomach.
Needless to say, the girl’s father didn’t stick around and disappeared like a fart in the wind after dropping off his daughter at the hospital and the authorities have yet to locate him.
“Everything is pointing to the fact this youngster was going to be used in a twisted way by adults as a drug mule to transport drugs from Colombia to another country,” Cali police chief Hoover Penilla said. “They had flights reserved to travel from Cali to Bogota…with a final destination of Gran Canaria.”
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