Customs officers at Málaga Airport arrested a Lithuanian man with 102 cocaine capsules in his digestive system, with a total weight of just over a kilo.

The 38-year-old man had taken a flight from Brazil to Málaga via Morocco.

The Drugs Squad in Madrid had had wind of a drugs consignment involving Eastern Europeans flying from cocaine-producing countries in South American with the intention of introducing the drug into Europe in the “stomach cavities” of couriers.

Drug runners deliberately fly from cocaine-producing countries to neighbouring countries to Europe and then take a connection flight into the continent, thus avoiding ‘hot flights;’ i.e.,direct flights that receive much tighter custom controls.

The police, having got wind of a probable ‘delivery,’ decided to take a closer look at this Lithuanian passenger, making him pass through an X-ray examination where his ‘stash’ was detected.

He was forced to ‘expel’ the capsules and arrested for drug running.

Editorial comment: A lucky man because if just one of those capsules had ruptured, he would have been a dead man.

(News: Malaga Airport, Costa del Sol, Malaga, Andalucia)