Botching the Booty in Bergen
June 17, 2005
When talking about Bergen, most people would probably think of Norway's second-largest city. Bergen in New Jersey also comes to mind. But a 44-year-old woman with 843 grams (30 ounces) of heroin hidden in the hollow heels of her boots managed to think of a third option.
There's another Bergen, on the German island of Rügen in the Baltic Sea. When the Spanish drug smuggler was told to deliver her goods to, well, Bergen, she booked a train ticket to northern Germany. When she arrived there and called her contacts, they told her that they were waiting for her much further north in Norway.
She got back on a train and was on her way to Copenhagen when customs officials got suspicious after they saw her ticket from Bergen (Rügen) to Bergen (Norway). That was the end of that drug smuggling trip.
The woman should have probably known better: After all, she's already spent two years in Scandinavian prisons for drug smuggling.