23 caught trying to smuggle cocaine
Published:Wednesday | July 20, 2011 | 12:00 AM
SAO PAULO (AP):
Brazilian police say they have arrested 23 African men who tried to board a plane to Angola with cocaine-filled capsules in their stomachs.
Federal police press officer Camila Silva says the men were arrested on Monday at Sao Paulo's International Airport as they were checking in for a flight on Angola's TAAG airline.
She says they appeared nervous so they were asked to pass through a security X-ray machine before boarding the plane.
She says one also had almost 18 pounds (eight kilograms) of the drug hidden in his suitcase. Police have not revealed the nationalities of the men, who face charges of international drug trafficking.