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A woman  was detained at JFK International Airport in NYC for attempting to smuggle 10 bricks of cocaine, weighing about 27 pounds, and carried an estimated street value of nearly $500,000 in the back of a wheelchair.

The 33-year-old woman had just landed in the States after a JetBlue flight from St. Lucia when Customs noticed that there was something fishy with the back seat cushion of the motorized wheelchair.

Couldn’t make this up, see pictures here