Thread: TX:Smugglers Use Affluent(sexy) Women As ‘Mulas’ (PIC)

This Story Was Posted Earlier.....Included Is the Pic of The Sisters......

By LISE OLSEN
July 8, 2009
Copyright 2009 Houston Chronicle



Three striking sisters, women in their 20s from the Mexican metropolis of Monterrey, were riding in the back of a late-model minivan with friends toward the shopping malls of Houston, when a Laredo customs agent noticed something out of place.

The driver of the white 2005 Chrysler Voyager with Nuevo Leon plates, a 42-year-old hairdresser, seemed a bit too nervous for a northbound shopper at the No. 2 International bridge. And inspectors noticed that the women appeared overly voluptuous, particularly in the bust, thighs and bottom.

All five were ordered out and patted down, where — under layers of fashionable clothing — each wore five to seven pounds of cocaine bricks with a total street value of nearly $1 million. The sister smugglers and their friends recently were sentenced to serve up to 74 months in federal prison here.

All were first-time offenders but part of a growing wave of “mulas,â€

I wouldn't mind patting them down myself .

"Drug trade participation by female smugglers has “increased exponentiallyâ€