A suspected drug mule arrested Sunday at Detroit Metropolitan Airport says she was paid $6,000 to transport dozens of packages of heroin to the U.S. from her home country of Nigeria. In her stomach. And it wasn’t the first time.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers detained 32-year-old Sherifat Lamidi after she arrived on a Lufthansa Airlines flight from Frankfurt, Germany. During an interview, she admitted she was paid to swallow and transport drugs to the states, but she wasn’t sure what drug or how much she had consumed.
Turns out, she swallowed 91 pellets of heroin with an estimated street value of $125,000.  You can see the thumb-sized packages, which weigh a combined 1.12 kilograms, in the photo above. That’s a whole lot of heroin sausages.
The Detroit Free Press, which obtained an federal agent’s affidavit, reports Lamidi admitted Sunday’s drug run wasn’t her first. She said she previously was paid $4,500 to travel to Chicago with 50 heroin pellets.  This time around, she was paid more to swallow more and told to wait at the airport until someone picked her up.
Afer her confession, authorities transported Lamidi to Heritage Hospital in Taylor, where she began “passing pellets” before staff could complete X-rays. The CBP says she “finalized the expulsion” of the pellets under medical supervision. We don’t really want to know what that means.
“Our officers are committed to the CBP mission of securing the nations borders,” Port Director Donald Conroy said in a released statement. “It is through the efforts of dedicated CBP officers that we were able to stop these drugs from reaching the streets.”
Lamidi’s case has been turned over the U.S. Attorney’s office for prosecution. If she’s convicted, the public likely will be denied the opportunity to see her battle Kobayashi in a non-heroin sausage eating contest. What a waste of talent.