Colombian native Ivan Vidal Forero was arrested at JFK airport in New York after arriving on a flight from Bogota with some undeclared property. The picture below was provided by U.S. Customs & Border Protection which removed these cylinders of heroin weighing approximately two (2) pounds and with an approximate street value of $61,000.00 from Forero's underwear on April 1st, 2015.
Forero wasn't the first to get popped trying to smuggle contraband inside of his underwear and he won't be the last.
Forero will be tried for narcotics charges in Federal Court in Brooklyn, and as a veteran criminal defense lawyer I can tell you that it's all but impossible to deny either intent or knowledge when contraband is found on your person (much less where it is found, seemingly conspicuously hidden in a clandestine fashion). In cases like this, where there is no apparent defense (there is no viable 4th Amendment challenge to a "border search" as you have virtually no 4th Amendment rights when you are entering at a U.S. border) your and your lawyer's options are extremely limited. I suspect that Forero will enter a quick guilty plea and argue in mitigation of sentence that while what he did was wrong it wasn't nearly as bad or dangerous as what this guy did...
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