9-year stopover for Colombian drug smuggler

 

A Colombian citizen who tried to smuggle cocaine hidden under her wig during a stopover at Tocumen International Airport on Friday, May 3, got her stay in Panama extended when a guarantee judge sentenced her to 9 years in prison in a plea deal between the Public Ministry, represented by the prosecutor Leonel Urriola and the public defender Yeny Saldaña June 5. In addition, the confiscation of 1,400 euros which she carried was at the time of her arrest when she was preparing to travel to Spain was imposed as an accessory penalty.