A Filipino woman who has worked as a maid in Hong Kong was arrested for allegedly smuggling 4.7 kilograms of cocaine from Brazil to India.
On Monday, Jonna De Torres, 36, was traveling from Sao Paolo to Kochi, a city in the southwestern Indian state of Kerala, via Muscat. She was arrested at Cochin International Airport after authorities allegedly found 250 million rupees (US$3.9 million) worth of cocaine in her luggage, The Hindu reported.
According to the Indian Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB), Torres previously visited Brazil in 2015. She recently went to Sao Paolo for five days before arriving in Kochi, the first time she had visited India.
The NCB said Torres admitted that she had been hired for US$4,000 to smuggle the drugs to India. She also admitted to smuggling drugs on several other occasions, The New Indian Express reported.
According to the Express report, Torres holds a Philippine passport issued in 2013. She had worked as a domestic worker in Hong Kong.
Torres will be in the custody of the NCB pending her trial at a Magistrate Court.
The NCB said this was the third drug-smuggling case in Kochi in the past two months, and in all of the incidents, the drugs were supplied by a racket based in Sao Paolo.
In India, the maximum penalty for drug smuggling is a 20-year prison term and a fine of 200,000 rupees.
She deserves time but those people waiting for that shipment must be apprehended otherwise it will continue.
Romie Baldomar hahaha tanggalan gyud sabagay tama kasi karamihan sa mga babae na ginagawang drug mule ay inaakit muna nirmally mga gwapong lalake yan kung mapa ibig na si pobreng pinay e sunudsunoran na lang yan. Tulang nong isang pinay inasawa ng isang gwapong iraqui ba yon tapos yin na inuotusan sya magdala ng bomba
hinakayat ng bf nya na puti para mag dala ng drugs at bibigyan ng mlaking pera ang pinay..ganyan ang modus ng mga drug syndicate gamitin ang babae na drug carrier.
Buhay nga nman ano?????say isang iglap nawala lahat Ng pangarap mo ….Ang akala mo lucky ka sa 2018????edi wooowww k ngayon….
Well she is a drug smuggler and not a victim
. She shld be punished accordingly
Dapat sa kanya tanggalan ng tinggil ng madala..hindi mag work ..gusto easy money.
Very well said…
That girl is stupid