New Delhi: A 32-year-old American woman has
been arrested from a central Delhi hotel here for allegedly
trying smuggling cocaine worth Rs 10 crore, officials said
today.
S Caprio Policarpio was apprehended by a team of the
Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) from a hotel in Paharganj on
November 27 and the drug was allegedly found concealed in her
bag in 28 thread rolls that she brought along from Sao Paulo
in Brazil via Addis Ababa in Ethiopia, they said.
The woman, the US national, has been arrested under
sections of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act
(NDPS), the officials said.
She was supposed to hand over the consignment to a
contact in the national capital which is being investigated,
they said.
"Most of the foreign carriers nabbed here are found to be
usually from South American or African countries but this is
the first time that an American national has been arrested by
the agency," a senior official said.
