by Rachel Ogbu

Two ladies, Priscilla Pena and Michelle Blassingale were caught smuggling six and a half kilos of cocaine hidden in the home made ‘diapers’ they wore under their pants.

Their plans went burst at the JFK airport in New York after arriving on a JetBlue flight from the Dominican Republic. Customs and Border Protection officers were alerted to the pair who had flown in from Santo Domingo when drug-sniffing dogs started barking wildly.

Officers knew something was wrong and checked their luggage, but found no trace of drugs, so the officers went on to search them and that was when they discovered the cocaine filled diapers the ladies wore as knickers.

The ladies from the Bronx were arrested and taken into custody.

The Mail Online UK reports:

Blassingale is being held in jail by a Brooklyn federal judge and Pena has been released on a $150,000 bail bond according to the New York Post.

In October last year, a Caribbean, drug-smuggling baggage handler was hit with three life sentences for turning American Airlines into his own ‘personal narcotics shuttle service.’

Former American Airlines baggage handler Victor Bourne, 37, was found guilty last year of charges he used his access at John F. Kennedy International Airport to smuggle more than 330 pounds of cocaine from 2000 to 2009.

Alleyne had traveled to Africa before the trial began and and hired a witch doctor to put a curse on the prosecutors, according to court documents.

‘You personally exacerbated one of the nation’s greatest blights,’ U.S. District Judge Nicholas Garaufis said at the sentencing in federal court in Brooklyn.

Bourne insisted investigators used ‘false evidence’ to frame him.

‘How can I accept responsibility for something that I don’t have nothing to do with? the Barbados native asked.

As leader of the crew, Bourne made millions of dollars that he laundered through business ventures in Brooklyn and Barbados, authorities said.
Bourne ‘turned American Airlines into his personal narcotics shuttle service, running a criminal organization that ignored passenger safety and security in pursuit of a greater goal — enriching Victor Bourne,’ U.S. Attorney Loretta Lynch said in a statement.

Prosecutors built much of their case against Bourne based on the testimony of six former employees of Fort Worth, Texas-based American Airlines who pleaded guilty to narcotics trafficking.

The jury heard evidence that Bourne bribed crew chiefs to assign his gang of corrupt baggage handlers to flights from the Caribbean.

The cooperators testified he also paid them tens of thousands of dollars each to ‘pull drugs’ hidden in the planes — and to keep quiet about it.