Three women have been arrested at a Colombian airport for posing as nuns and hiding cocaine underneath their habits.
The women, ranging in ages 20, 32 and 37, wore fake habits as they made their way through Gustavo Rojas Pinilla International Airport in San Andres Sunday, following their arrival in Bogota.
Police Captain Oscar Davila told the Miami Herald that the nuns' habits didn't seem right for three young women, so he asked them to step to the side for search. He also mentioned that they looked nervous, plus the fabric of their habits looked funny.
Each woman had about two kilos of cocaine beneath their clothes, according to a police statement issued after the three were taken into custody.
The women each wore a different style of habit: one donned grey, with a white veil on her head, another wore a black dress with a black and white wimple and the third sported a large white collar and rope tie around her waist against a black smock.
Video surveillance showed the women crying nervously, heads bowed while being interviewed by police. Later, the women were led to police cars wearing street clothing.
The drugs the three were trying to smuggle past airport security could be sold in upwards of 60 thousand doses, police said.
They are now charged with trafficking, manufacturing and bearing of narcotics.
Colombia is a country notoriously known for its high presence of cocaine.
This isn't the first time Colombian smugglers have tried bringing drugs across borders in, shall we call them, innovative ways: in 1993, police found enormous, homemade submarines in the jungles of Colombia that had the capacity to carry up to 180 tons of cocaine and were made of fiberglass.
If one was found, the crew could simply sink the boat and leave it on the sea floor, get rid of the evidence and leave without a trace.
