Young Woman Caught Red-Handed Smuggling Marijuana

Denpasar (Antara Bali) - A young woman  was caught red-handed  trying  to smuggle two packages of marijuana into a Denpasar penitentiary on Friday, a prison spokesman said.

"The (marijuana smuggling attempt) happened at about 11.00 hours local time when officers conducted a search on each visitor at the prison entrance," Yudho Sutijono, prison  security chief said here on Friday.

The female smuggler identified by  her initials as MS (34) was born in Lumajang, East Java province.

According to Yudho Sutijono, the woman was caught red-handed  when she wanted to visit a French male prisoner identified as Gracia Jean Marc Patrice.

"She admitted she had come to the prison  to see Jean Marc to deliver the marijuana to him at the request of another  foreigner,"  Yudho Sutijono said.

In an effort to deceive the prison officers, the woman had hidden  the two packages of marijuana in her bra and other  underwear. But  prison security officers foiled the woman's action after frisking her, he said.

"At first, I was only in charge of searching every visitor who entered  the prison," Kriswidyani, the female officer who examined the woman.

"I became suspicious, because she kept  pulling at her bra. When I asked what she was doing, she said, 'nothing Madam," Kriswidyani said.

When asked by the prison officer, the woman confessed that she was smuggled the marijuana by  order of an unknown person by phone. She said she had picked up the drug under a tree in front of the prison.

The woman also said that she knew the French prisoner since five years ago when she got a job in property company. (*)