Cocaine worth 450,000 dollars seized from wheelchair wheels at NY airport

(US Customs and Border Protection via AP)

Customs officers at New York’s Kennedy International Airport seized 450,000 dollars (£378,000) worth of cocaine from a traveller who was smuggling the drugs in the wheels of her wheelchair, federal authorities announced.

The incident happened on November 10 when Customs and Border Patrol officers stopped a woman traveling from Punta Cana in the Dominican Republic with a wheelchair whose wheels were not turning, agency officials said.