The so-called ‘mules’, people who take drugs in capsules like this man or who insert them through openings like the anus or vagina, are often used by criminal organizations who exploit their vulnerability so that they agree to travel on transoceanic flights drugs in their body in exchange for a reduced price. Police have also opened an investigation that should clarify where he got that drug and where he is headed with it.

It was also then that the Mossos agents informed him that he was going to be arrested for a crime against public health. In total, and pending confirmation by the laboratory, 388 grams of cocaine were recovered.Īfter spending several days in a coma due to the serious condition caused by the bursting of one of the balls in him, the man woke up and recovered from the episode. Thanks to this caesarean section, the toilets were able to pull out of his stomach, while the man was unconscious on the operating room portable, up to 57 capsules. Eventually, and because his life was in grave danger, he underwent surgery. During a radiological examination, the balls trapped inside appeared.Īt the hospital, they tried to drive them away on their own, but it was unsuccessful. Doctors subjected him to several medical tests. The man came to be treated in a severe drunkenness. On January 7, a doctor at a hospital in Barcelona called the 112 emergency number to report that they were treating a patient who had between 50 and 60 balls in his stomach that was possibly cocaine. This is a 39-year-old person of Spanish nationality.

The Mossos d’Esquadra they arrested a man who swallowed 57 capsules what they contained cocaine with the intention, presumably, of entering Spain without being detected in any of the airport checks.

After a few days in a coma, Mossos d’Esquadra agents informed him that he had been arrested.

He was treated in a hospital because one of the balls burst and an emergency operation had to take place.

Balls of cocaine