According to a press release from the Ministry of Public Security (Spanish initials: MSP), the incident occurred on Friday at the Juan Santamaria International Airport (SJO), located in the province of Alajuela and not far from Downtown San Jose. The tourist is an Italian male who had previously entered Costa Rica at the Sixaola land border crossing with Panama on July 22nd.
The Italian tourist was identified by the last name of Mencaroni; he was at SJO attempting to board a flight to Panama, but his final destination was Amsterdam Airport Schiphol, the main international airport of the Kingdom of The Netherlands.
The PCD officers patrolling the passenger terminal at SJO noticed that Signor Mencaroni appeared to be very nervous, and thus they decided to approach him. Upon doing so, Signor Mencaroni chucked up the first packet, which PCD officers assumed contained cocaine. At that point, the tourist was detained and taken to a separate area where he ejected the contents of his stomach over a period of eight hours, for a total of 64 packets.
A closer inspection and analysis of the packets revealed that the suspect was transporting nearly 371 grams of cocaine hydrochloride in powder form, distributed among 63 packets. A single packet, for some reason, contained 6.2 grams of marijuana. Aside from the cocaine and cannabis, Signor Mencaroni was also carrying 770 euros and 11,000 colones (about $22).
The suspect was later taken to a clinic for a medical evaluation before being taken into custody so that he could sit through an interview with prosecutors.
Source: http://news.co.cr
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