A drug trafficker has met her waterloo in the hands of security officers after she was caught read handed hiding cocaine in her privates.
Fungisai Maguta
A 39-year-old woman, Fungisai Maguta has been charged to court after she was caught at the Harare International Airport hiding 274 grams of cocaine in her privates. The woman who was caught in Zimbabwe arrived from Brazil.
She was taken to the Harare magistrates’ court charged with possession of cocaine.
According to H-metro, circumstances leading to her arrests were 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 aboard 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. In a separate matter, another man appeared in court last Saturday after he was nabbed in one of Harare’s leafy suburb’s after he was found in possession of cocaine.
Denis Scholz, 28, was arrested and taken to court after he was allegedly found in possession of two grams of cocaine.
He is expected to appear in court on Monday for his bail application.