DEA Arrests Smugglers Hiding Heroin In Condoms And The Soles Of Sandels

JUN 21-Today, 56 members of this powerful heroin trafficking organization are in custody as a result of the coordinated efforts of the DEA Task Force and Colombian authorities. The criminal organization targeted in “Operation Double Identity” used highly-sophisticated smuggling methods to bring its heroin into the United States and ultimately to New York City.”

“They hid heroin in the soles of sandals, and golf bags, and also used human ‘swallowers’ to smuggle heroin in condoms with heroin pellets in them to the U.S. on board commercial airliners,” 

(These sandals were used to hide some of the $25 million dollars worth of heroin into the United States from Colombia.)

Prior to today’s arrests the task force arrested 26

members of the organization, all of whom are being

prosecuted in Manhattan federal court. During the

investigation, the DEA Task Force and Colombian authorities, assisted by officers with the Department of Homeland Security, Customs and Border Patrol, in Florida, seized more than 250 pounds of the organization’s heroin – worth more than $25 million –- that was destined for New York City streets

(Condoms (pictured here) were used to

smuggle the heroin into New York and Florida.)