A 39 YEAR-OLD woman was nabbed at the Harare International Airport while attempting to smuggle cocaine into the country from Brazil.
Fungisai Maguta was arrested after she was found with 274 grams of cocaine stashed in her privates. She was taken to the Harare magistrates’ court charged with possession of cocaine.Circumstances leading to her arrest are that on February 3 at around 10am, detectives from the CID Drugs and Narcotics received information to the effect that there was a woman who was in possession of cocaine abroad a United Arab Emirates flight from Brazil.
Reports were that the detectives made investigations and discovered that Fungisai was the one who was being suspected of possessing cocaine. Upon her arrival at the Harare International Airport at around 4pm, she was spotted by detectives as she was clearing her luggage with ZIMRA officials.
Detectives are said to have intercepted her as she was walking towards the exit point and took her to their offices at the airport.
The court heard that the detectives searched her luggage and found nothing among her parcels. A further search led detectives to take her to the toilet where they asked her to undress and made a body search. She was found with a sachet containing cocaine which was stashed in her privates.
She was then arrested and taken to the Harare magistrates’ court charged with possession of cocaine.
Source: H Metro
