A half-pound of cocaine gave this drug mule a tummy ache.
A Brooklyn drug smuggler was busted after she checked into a Bed-Stuy hospital complaining of stomach pain – and surprised surgeons found almost 50 plastic packages of coke cached inside her guts, the Post has learned.
Odetta Clark, 43, allegedly hopped a flight from her native Guyana to New York City on August 23 after swallowing the small plastic pellets packed with coke, but checked into Interfaith Medical Center the next day after her stomach started hurting, court papers state.
“The defendant is a citizen of Guyana and was trafficking cocaine from there in this case,” assistant district attorney Meredith Campbell said at Clark’s September 11 arraignment.
“The defendant was admitted and underwent surgery for abdominal pain and blockage at Interfaith Medical Center, and that during surgery, 46 pellets of cocaine were detected and removed from the defendant’s stomach, small intestine, and colon,” court papers state.
The five-foot-five, 130-pound Clark told hospital staffers she had swallowed the pellets packed with cocaine a day earlier. Hospital staff turned the pellets over to cops and Clark was held at the hospital for almost two weeks, court papers state.
Clark was hit with the most serious drug charge and could face life in prison. She is being held on $1 million bail at Riker’s Island.