Model Smuggling drugs - Flirting doesn't sway Customs Officer

By Vijay Kumar

FLIRTING with a Customs Officer didn't help jetsetting model Anet Pikula escape from Customs with cocaine hidden in her Mercedes Benz car - rather that gave her in.

"Flirtation was what was going on," said a Customs spokesman of the US CBP after she was arrested last week at an Arizona crossing. The Customs Officers grew suspicious and summoned the services of a drug-sniffing dog which quickly found 13 pounds of cocaine valued at 1,34,000 USD, packed into bricks and shrink-wrapped and concealed in her car.