A woman has been arrested in Indonesia’s Bali after allegedly trying to smuggle cocaine into the resort island using a sex toy and hiding drugs in her underwear, police said Tuesday.<\/p>\n
The 42-year-old Peruvian, identified only by her initials N.S., arrived at Bali’s international airport from Qatar on Aug. 12 when authorities became suspicious.<\/p>\n
“The customs officers suspected her behavior, and after consulting with the police, they did a further check on her,” Bali police narcotics unit director, Radiant, who like many Indonesians has one name, said at a press conference.<\/p>\n
The officers allegedly found 3.1 pounds of cocaine inside a sex toy hidden in her genitals and in her underwear. Police also accused her of smuggling dozens of ecstasy pills.<\/p>\n
The Peruvian woman told police she was hired to transport the drugs to Indonesia by a man she met on the dark web in April in return for $20,000, said Radiant.<\/p>\n
The woman has been charged under Indonesia’s harsh narcotics law and could face the death penalty if found guilty. Convicted drug smugglers in Indonesia are sometimes executed by\u00a0firing squad<\/a>. <\/p>\n Last month, a Bali court sentenced a 46-year-old Argentine to seven years in prison after she was found guilty of smuggling 244 grams of cocaine wrapped with a condom that she hid inside her genitals.<\/p>\n Indonesia has some of the world’s toughest drug laws. There are dozens of traffickers on death row in the country, including a cocaine-smuggling British grandmother.<\/p>\n Indonesia last carried out executions in 2016, killing one Indonesian and three Nigerian drug convicts by firing squad. <\/p>\n In June, three British nationals accused of smuggling over two pounds of cocaine into Indonesia were charged<\/a> in Bali. They avoided the death penalty last month, the BBC reported<\/a>, when they were told by a judge they would only serve a 12-month sentence.<\/p>\n The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime says Indonesia is a major drug-smuggling hub despite having some of the strictest drug laws in the world, in part because international drug syndicates target its young population.<\/p>\n Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto’s administration has moved to repatriate several high-profile inmates, all sentenced for drug offenses, back to their home countries.<\/p>\n Frenchman Serge Atlaoui returned to France in February after Jakarta and Paris agreed a deal to repatriate him on “humanitarian grounds” because he was ill.<\/p>\n In December, Indonesia took\u00a0Mary Jane Veloso<\/a>\u00a0off death row and returned her to the Philippines. It also sent the five remaining members of the\u00a0“Bali Nine”<\/a>\u00a0drug ring, who were serving heavy prison sentences, back to Australia.<\/p>\n According to Indonesia’s Ministry of Immigration and Corrections, 96 foreigners were on death row, all on drug charges, before Veloso’s release.<\/p>\n \n More from CBS News\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A woman has been arrested in Indonesia’s Bali after allegedly trying to smuggle cocaine into the resort island…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":158959,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[10002,79726,9996,50,103],"class_list":{"0":"post-158958","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-bali","9":"tag-cocaine","10":"tag-indonesia","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-world"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115056688843130399","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158958\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/158959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}