UNDIE COVER: Woman Busted Attempting To Smuggle Cannabis Into Prison In Her Knickers

A woman has been busted attempting to smuggle cannabis stashed in her underwear into a prison.

Picture shows the marijuana in the underwear, undated. A woman tried to enter a prison with marijuana in her panties, in Pracinha, Brazil, on Sunday, Jan. 15, 2022. ( Secretaria da Administracao Penitenciaria/Newsflash)

The suspect, who has not been named, was reportedly caught trying to enter the Pracinha Penitentiary in Brazil’s Sao Paulo state on Sunday, 15th January.

The Department of Penitentiary Administration of the State of Sao Paulo said that the drugs were detected thanks to a scanner during a body search.

The drugs were reportedly located in “an inappropriate place” in her underwear, according to local media, with the cannabis seized by the prison authorities and the suspect then handed over to the police.

The suspect was taken by the Military Police to the Adamantina Police Station to be questioned.

Picture shows Penitenciaria de Pracinha, in Pracinha, Brazil, undated. A woman tried to enter the prison with marijuana in her panties, on Sunday, Jan. 15, 2022. (Google Maps/Newsflash)

The detainee who the woman was attempting to visit in prison, who has not been named, was sent to the prison’s Disciplinary Pavilion and “will respond to an internal procedure to investigate possible complicity”.

The investigation is ongoing. It was unclear if the suspect had been formally charged at the time of writing and whether or not she had been detained pending the outcome of the investigation.