Thursday, January 04, 2007

98 BAGS OF COKE IN MODEL


Julissa Mercedes, 24, who has starred in cosmetics and clothing ads, was found to have 98 bags of the drug inside her after landing in Sicily.

It is thought she was on her way to a Catania hotel to meet Mafia mobsters who she said had paid her £2,800 to be a mule.

Local police captain Sergio Cerra, acting on a tip-off, said: "She knew exactly what she was doing and we suspect she has brought consignments into Italy in the past.

"She has told us she was to check into the hotel and wait to be contacted."

Mercedes, mother of a child of six, was held on Christmas Eve after taking a Ryanair flight from Charleroi in Belgium.

She initially denied carrying cocaine but confessed before a body scan revealed the 98 packets.

Captain Cerra said: "It took until Boxing Day evening for the last ones to pass through her body.

If charged, she faces a maximum 20 years in jail.

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