A woman arrested on suspicion of smuggling drugs from Mexico in to the United States needed a one-pound package of methamphetamine surgicallyremoved from her pelvis last week. Claudia Ibarra, 31, was taken into custody after U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents patted her down and ”realized there clearly was something down there,” spokeswoman Teresa Small told The Associated Press on Friday.
A health care provider taken off Ibarra a dark package of drugs double-wrapped in co-ndoms.
Ibarra, a U.S. citizen and resident of Yuma, Ariz., had experimented with cross the border at San Luis alone and on foot, according to authorities.
Per a tabulation of U.S. Border Patrol and U.S. Customs and Border Protection data by the Center for Investigative Reporting, significantly more than 36,000 pounds of methamphetamine were seized by agents across the U.S.-Mexico border between 2005 and 2011.
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