An American woman has admitted smuggling cocaine into New Zealand hidden inside puffer jackets
An American woman has admitted smuggling cocaine into New Zealand hidden inside puffer jackets
17 July 2020
Forty-four-year-old Jamie Mendez was caught with 2.5-kilograms of pure cocaine -- inside the lining of five jackets in her luggage at Christchurch International Airport last September.
Authorities claim the illegal Class-A drug had a street value of around 875-thousand-dollars
It's understood she'd flown to New Zealand from Zimbabwe via Ethiopia and Singapore.
Mendez will be sentenced on September 17.
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