AIRPORT--Custom officers at the airport held a Curaçao-born man Tuesday for trying to smuggle two packets of cocaine into St. Maarten.
The suspect was caught with 540 grams of pure cocaine. Officers stopped him as he arrived on an Insel Air flight, Windward Islands Customs Head Anthony Doran said.
The man had a vacuum-sealed plastic packet of cocaine strapped around one leg. Doran said he had been uncooperative.
He was at least the fourth person flying from Curaçao with packages of cocaine strapped to their legs since December.
Body-packing smugglers, or body packers, prefer to carry the drugs attached either to their legs or along their torsos.
