ARIZONA WOMAN BUSTED FOR SMUGGLING METH STUFFED IN A BURRITO

Susy Laborin got caught at the Nogales border crossing with one pound of meth stuffed in a burrito

The Smoking Gun
May 24, 2016

An Arizona woman tried to smuggle a methamphetamine-stuffed burrito into the U.S. from Mexico, but was thwarted when federal agents sniffed out her scheme, investigators report.

As detailed in a U.S. District Court complaint, Susy Laborin, 23, sought to enter the U.S. Saturday afternoon via a pedestrian gate at the border crossing in Nogales, Arizona.

Laborin, seen above, was “carrying a plastic bag containing burritos,” according to the complaint. But when a Customs and Border Protection officer examined the grub, the investigator discovered a bag of meth “concealed in the shape of a burrito.”

The meth, which weighed about a pound, is valued at more than $3000, CBP officials said.

Laborin, the complaint notes, admitted that she knew the burrito was stuffed with meth and said that she “was supposed to be paid $500 to transport the drugs via shuttle from Nogales to Tuscon where she would deliver them to an unknown third party.”

Laborin, a Nogales resident, was charged with narcotics possession. A federal magistrate yesterday ordered her detained pending trial on the felony charge.

EDITOR’S NOTE: It’s too bad for poor Suzy that she will not be appearing bedore U.S. District Judge Frederic Block in Brooklyn. Judge Block would have put her on probation instead of sending her to prison because he is troubled by the collateral consequences of a felony conviction.