Student finds 10 pounds of cocaine in luggage after arriving back in country

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Last Friday, a 21-year-old college student arrived in her Manhattan apartment, unzipped her suitcase, and found ten pounds of cocaine staring her in the face. This equates to $150,000 worth of the drug, the New York Post reports. The baffled FIT student had just arrived back in the country after spending some time in Trinidad and Tobago, a small island nation in the Caribbean, only to find a small fortune's worth of the illegal drug in her bag. The woman, who claims to have no idea how the drugs ended up in her luggage, called police immediately after making the eye-popping discovery. “She said she had no idea how it got there,” a police source told the New York Post. Authorities think that there is a strong possibility that this was a botched drug smuggling attempt, during which the drugs were implanted in the wrong bag. “If her story is true, that’s the most likely scenario... There’s no question about it,” the source said. It is also a possibility that the drugs were planted in the student's bag at random, in the hope that the person looking for the luggage would find it before the student and make off with the drugs.

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