A flight attendant working for budget airline JetBlue has admitted to accepting $10,000 to smuggle heroin disguised as chocolate pellets into the country from Colombia.

Carla Michelle Alvarado was caught by customs officers coming off a flight from Bogota to Orlando with 940 grams – or just over two pounds – of the powerful street drug split across several oval pellets that were colored brown to look like candy.

Alvarado, from Kissimmee, Florida, had hidden the items in a garment underneath her flight attendant uniform.

In happier times: Carla Alvarado, in a photo from Facebook, was caught with just over two pounds of heroin hidden underneath her flight attendant uniform following a flight from Bogota, Colombia, to Orlando. She then went undercover for police to catch the dealer that was paying her $10,000 for the smuggle

Carla Alvarado after she was arrested for allegedly smuggling heroin into the US from Colombia

Alvarado told agents she was given the drugs in Colombia and was being paid $10,000 to deliver the heroin to Jorge Luis Alomar, an acquaintance in Orlando.

She then agreed to help agents with their investigation and complete the delivery.

Once Alomar had accepted what he thought was a bag of heroin from Alvarado, police swooped in.

Carla Alvarado is currently on bail awaiting trial for being charged with conspiracy to distribute a controlled substance

JetBlue flight attendant Carla Alvarado put this photo on Facebook in November 2011 after a pole dancing class

Alomar told agents he coordinates heroin shipments from a source in Bogota and said he asked Alvarado for help in moving the drugs, according to the Orlando Sentinel.

Alomar said Alvarado had also transported another package of heroin for him about weeks earlier,for which he paid her $10,000.

Carla Alvarado, seen here in a flight attendant uniform, alerted customs to what she was carrying. She is awaiting trial for conspiracy to distribute a controlled substance

Agents asked Alomar if he had any other drugs, and he said he had more heroin hidden in his home in Davenport.

Carla Alvarado was working on a jetBlue flight when she was caught. She admitted to what she was carrying during a random customs screening

Agents took Alomar to his house, where he moved a dresser, pulled up the carpet and removed a bag containing about 165 grams of heroin. In his bathroom, Alomar removed a ceiling vent cover and pulled out bags containing about 55 grams of heroin.

Alvarado and Alomar were arrested on a charge of conspiracy to distribute a controlled substance, and both made their first appearance in Orlando federal court on Monday.

Alomar remains jailed in Orange County.

Alvarado was granted bail.

Carla Alvarado helped police nab the leader for the drug ring she was working for by going undercover to make the ‘drop’

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