ATLANTA — Authorities busted a 24-year-old woman trying to smuggle nearly 3 pounds of cocaine into Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport earlier this week.
How’d they catch her?
Atlanta airport's customs and border protection boss Carey Davis told Channel 2 Action News that a young customs officer acted on a hunch and used his training.
"It's experience. These guys do this every day," Davis said.
His hunch proved to be correct, and they seized more than $40,000 worth of the illegal drug.
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"It's about 50 grand worth of cocaine, and that would be turned into a lot more than that once they cut it and sell it on the street and ruin a bunch of lives," Davis said.
The woman was immediately sent back to Honduras.
Davis said there has been a lot of other drugs confiscated over the past year.
"That's what we're here for: to catch it all," Davis said.
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