Customs officers at JFK seize two women carrying six kilos of cocaine inside home-made diapers

Mike Gallagher

Jan 30, 2013 - 13:43

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Customs officers at JFK seize two women carrying six kilos of cocaine inside home-made diapers

Priscilla Pena and Michelle Blassingale, (pictured) who are from the Bronx, New York, have been caught smuggling six and a half kilos of cocaine hidden in diapers under their pants.

Two ladies from the Bronx have been caught smuggling six and a half kilos of cocaine hidden in 'diapers' under their pants.

Retuing to New York's JFK on a JetBlue flight from the Dominican Republic, Priscilla Pena and Michelle Blassingale were relying on the cocaine girdles to give off a natural appearance.

However, Customs and Border Protection officers were alerted to the pair who had flown in from Santo Domingo when drug-sniffing dogs started to go wild.

Priscilla Pena and Michelle Blassingale were arrested at New York's JFK after cocaine was found in constructed 'diapers' under their pants

Checking their luggage, but finding no trace of drugs, the officers began a pat-down of the two women and discovered the cocaine filled diapers around the ladies hind quarters.

The ladies were then read their rights and arrested and taken into custody.

The two women were traveling back into the United States after visiting the Dominican Republic

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 tuing American Airlines into his own 'personal narcotics shuttle service.'

Former American Airlines baggage handler Victor Boue, 37, was found guilty last year of charges he used his access at John F. Kennedy Inteational 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.

Boue insisted investigators used 'false evidence' to frame him.

This picture shows the padding and pouches of the cocaine diapers and what are believed to be a pair of one of the ladies' discarded pants

A TSA agent pats down a passenger - border control staff at JFK found over six kilos of cocaine on two Bronx women

'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, Boue made millions of dollars that he laundered through business ventures in Brooklyn and Barbados, authorities said.

Boue 'tued 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 Boue,' U.S. Attoey Loretta Lynch said in a statement.

Prosecutors built much of their case against Boue 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 Boue 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.