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55-Year-Old Housewife Arrested Over Cocaine Stash

Lindsay Sandiford traveling from Thailand to Bali when customs found drugs

By Mark Russell,  Newser Staff

Posted May 28, 2012 11:44 AM CDT

(Newser) – A 55-year-old British woman has been arrested after allegedly trying to smuggle more than 10 pounds of cocaine from Bangkok into Bali, reports the BBC. Indonesian customs officials say the drugs were found in the lining of Lindsay Sandiford's bags as they went through an X-ray screening on May 19. Authorities believe Sandiford was bringing the drugs to three other British citizens and an Indian national, who are also being questioned. Indonesia can sentence drug traffickers to death, although it has not done so frequently in recent years.

Linsay June Sandiford (R), 56, of Britain is escorted by  a armed customs personnel at a customs office in Denpasar on Bali island on May 28, 2012.
Linsay June Sandiford (R), 56, of Britain is escorted by a armed customs personnel at a customs office in Denpasar on Bali island on May 28, 2012.   (Getty Images)
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Barney_Vincelette
Jan 22, 2013 6:09 AM CST
Let us not be impressed with Indonesia's gesture of simulated courage in their hypocritical war on drugs. They welcome with open arms Phillip Morris and sponsor these corporate pedophiles teaching and addicting children as young as 3 years old how to smoke a drug that kills 600,000 nonsmokers a year. When it comes to illegal drugs they posture like a schoolyard bully, but they prove by their actions that they don't have the balls to take on someone of their own economic size. I wonder how much they got pain to grant special privileges to the tobacco industry and I wonder how much outrage there would be if they started executing tobacco merchants.
Jojo
May 29, 2012 12:05 AM CDT
It was better when it was done the first time and named Midnight Express.
B-Diddy
May 28, 2012 8:03 PM CDT
I'm sorry to say that she is "Fucked!" Wrong country to be caught with Drugs. Just pull a Ronald Reagan  and State that you have no recolection or Idea of how the drugs got there!
 

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