A 63-year-old female national of Finland is expected to appear in the Arima Magistrates' Court today charged with trafficking five kilos of cocaine. According to police reports, around 8.10 pm on Friday, detectives of the Organised Crime Narcotics Bureau were on duty at one of the security check-points at Piarco International Airport when they stopped the woman, booked to travel to Canada on Caribbean Airlines Flight BW 610.
They searched her luggage and found the cocaine wrapped inside the lining of the suitcase. She was arrested and subsequently charged. The cocaine had an estimated street value of $2 million.
