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WARSAW, POLAND (AP) — An 81-year-old Danish woman traveling from Africa to Canada was arrested at Warsaw airport on suspicion of illegal possession of more than $515,000 worth of heroin, the Polish government said. officials said on Friday.
Frederick Customs officials at her Chopin airport decided to check the luggage of the woman who was in her transit on Sunday after becoming suspicious of her itinerary and uneasy behavior.
A package containing 5 kilograms (11 pounds) of heroin was found in the bottom of the fake suitcase.
A woman who had been traveling from Malawi and Kenya via Doha and Warsaw denied her wrongdoing and said her family had left the suitcase along with gifts for her relatives in Canada. Said he gave it to her: Warsaw.
She spent her three months in custody and prosecutors opened an investigation. Under Polish law, she faces up to 15 years in prison for illegal drug possession.
