Crime & Safety
Body-Cavity Search at Midway Airport Nets $36,000 in Cocaine
The nose knows: 2 women arrested after drug-sniffing dog ruins trip home from a Jamaica vacation.
A U.S. Customs dog sniffed out cocaine on two women who flew into Midway Airport Friday after a vacation trip to Montego Bay, Jamaica.
Well, not on the women. After the drug-sniffing pooch did his duty, Customs agents said, $36,000 worth of cocaine was actually found inside the women, wrapped in condoms and stuffed into a pair of below-the-waistline body cavities.
Denisha White, 24, of the 5500 block of South Princeton Avenue in Chicago, and Taleishia Trisby, 25, of the 800 block of Russell Road in DeKalb, were taken into custody by Chicago Police late Friday
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The women appeared in court Saturday, each facing one felony possession of a controlled substance charge. They were released on electronic home monitoring.
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