{"id":14424,"date":"2025-08-19T15:18:57","date_gmt":"2025-08-19T15:18:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/2025\/08\/19\/woman-arrested-in-bali-over-cocaine-allegedly-smuggled-in-sex-toy-could-face-death-penalty-if-convicted\/"},"modified":"2025-08-19T15:18:59","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T15:18:59","slug":"woman-arrested-in-bali-over-cocaine-allegedly-smuggled-in-sex-toy-could-face-death-penalty-if-convicted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/2025\/08\/19\/woman-arrested-in-bali-over-cocaine-allegedly-smuggled-in-sex-toy-could-face-death-penalty-if-convicted\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman arrested in Bali over cocaine allegedly smuggled in sex toy, could face death penalty if convicted"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A woman has been arrested in Indonesia’s Bali after allegedly trying to smuggle cocaine into the resort island using a sex toy and hiding drugs in her underwear, police said Tuesday.<\/p>\n

The 42-year-old Peruvian, identified only by her initials N.S., arrived at Bali’s international airport from Qatar on Aug. 12 when authorities became suspicious.<\/p>\n

“The customs officers suspected her behavior, and after consulting with the police, they did a further check on her,” Bali police narcotics unit director, Radiant, who like many Indonesians has one name, said at a press conference.<\/p>\n

The officers allegedly found 3.1 pounds of cocaine inside a sex toy hidden in her genitals and in her underwear. Police also accused her of smuggling dozens of ecstasy pills.<\/p>\n

The Peruvian woman told police she was hired to transport the drugs to Indonesia by a man she met on the dark web in April in return for $20,000, said Radiant.<\/p>\n

The woman has been charged under Indonesia’s harsh narcotics law and could face the death penalty if found guilty. Convicted drug smugglers in Indonesia are sometimes executed by\u00a0firing squad<\/a><\/span>. <\/p>\n

Last month, a Bali court sentenced a 46-year-old Argentine to seven years in prison after she was found guilty of smuggling 244 grams of cocaine wrapped with a condom that she hid inside her genitals.<\/p>\n

Indonesia has some of the world’s toughest drug laws. There are dozens of traffickers on death row in the country, including a cocaine-smuggling British grandmother.<\/p>\n

Indonesia last carried out executions in 2016, killing one Indonesian and three Nigerian drug convicts by firing squad. <\/p>\n

In June, three British nationals accused of smuggling over two pounds of cocaine into Indonesia were charged<\/a><\/span> in Bali. They avoided the death penalty last month, the BBC reported<\/a>, when they were told by a judge they would only serve a 12-month sentence.<\/p>\n

The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime says Indonesia is a major drug-smuggling hub despite having some of the strictest drug laws in the world, in part because international drug syndicates target its young population.<\/p>\n

Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto’s administration has moved to repatriate several high-profile inmates, all sentenced for drug offenses, back to their home countries.<\/p>\n

Frenchman Serge Atlaoui returned to France in February after Jakarta and Paris agreed a deal to repatriate him on “humanitarian grounds” because he was ill.<\/p>\n

In December, Indonesia took\u00a0Mary Jane Veloso<\/a><\/span>\u00a0off death row and returned her to the Philippines. It also sent the five remaining members of the\u00a0“Bali Nine”<\/a><\/span>\u00a0drug ring, who were serving heavy prison sentences, back to Australia.<\/p>\n

According to Indonesia’s Ministry of Immigration and Corrections, 96 foreigners were on death row, all on drug charges, before Veloso’s release.<\/p>\n

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