Police in Anderson County, South Carolina, reported on social media the arrest of a woman, who was obviously pregnant: she was hiding something under her fake belly.
Here is an astonishing news item, one of those that make the headlines of local American newspapers and that are repeated in the mornings of the major programs of the national networks: a few days ago, the office of the sheriff of the county of Anderson in Carolina Sud made it known on its social networks that it had carried out a rather singular arrest. In reality, the facts occurred on April 12, but the police preferred not to communicate before on this case.
This April 12, 2023, therefore, two Anderson County police officers are conducting a traffic stop on Interstate 85, as part of a “proactive patrol”, as reported by the New York Post. The passenger is a pregnant woman. One of the attendants then asks, quite innocently, when the due date is. But the passenger and the driver were clearly not quite ready to answer this question and provided “conflicting information”.
A rambling conversation ensued and caution quickly showed on the face of one of the officers. So much so that the driver cut the car short and sped off.
For what ? Did the police catch the criminals? The officers managed to stop the vehicle quickly and arrest the fugitives. And oh surprise, the pregnant woman was not pregnant at all, she had on her a fake belly which fell, while she ran away, trying to escape her pursuers. Under her rubber belly, the respondent had hidden more than 1,500 grams of cocaine.
The couple arrested that day are still in pre-trial detention, charged with trafficking cocaine, police said. Both defendants were denied bail.
As CBNews reports, South Carolina has reported that the state is facing a “significant increase” in drug overdose deaths. Most of these deaths are due to opioids, which generated 2,168 deaths in 2021, compared to only 573 deaths in 2012.
