A South Florida woman was arrested after she was found to have a cocaine "package" inside her vagina at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport, authorities said.
KathyAnn Ferguson, 26, was arrested shortly after her flight from Jamaica arrived at the airport Sunday afternoon, according to a Broward Sheriff's Office arrest report released Wednesday.
Ferguson, from Hollywood, was charged with cocaine trafficking and later released on bond. It was unknown if she has an attorney.
“She was stopped when a Customs and Border Patrol agent noticed something unusual about her, she was questioned, admitted to having cocaine on her body. She had inserted it in her private parts,” said Dani Moschella of the BSO.
BSO said Ferguson pulled out a cylindrical-shaped, plastic-wrapped package from her vagina that contained around six ounces of cocaine. Since the initial reports, Ferguson has bonded out of jail. The BSO said this is a crime that is happening on a regular basis.
“People are often recruited to carry drugs on their body, whether they swallow it or insert it in another area,” said Moschella. “It’s frequent. It happens all the time and it’s a huge health risk to those people. People often die when the drugs inside their body rupture.”
Ferguson faces up to seven years in prison under minimum mandatory sentencing laws.
