Smuggler Caught With 80 Containers in His Stomach

A 41-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of smuggling a huge sum of money in his stomach at the airport in Montego Bay, Jamaica.

$103,500 smuggled in more than 80 plastic packages in the man’s stomach

Eddy Alberio Mancipe Ortega made a bold attempt to smuggle $103,500 in more than 80 plastic packages in his stomach. The contrabandist was heading from Jamaica to Trinidad as he was stopped by officials and sent to the nearest police station for interrogation.

Later he spent two days passing 80 plastic containers with dollars and eventually was sentenced to three months in Jamaican prison. The man had already been in police custody for eight months and was deported by officials with ‘immediate effect’.

Financial Investigation Division chief Justin Felice said: “This is the first instance that we have found cash being smuggled from Jamaica in such a fashion. It is indicative of how far persons will go in an effort to evade detection by law enforcement tasked with combating money laundering”.