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Woman arrested at JFK Airport for smuggling cocaine in her vagina

Posted at 6:15 PM, Feb 26, 2016
and last updated 2016-02-26 19:38:30-05

NEW YORK -- A Queens woman was arrested at John F. Kennedy Airport after allegedly trying to smuggle $10,000 worth of cocaine in her vagina, according to WPIX.

Shekira Thompson, 24, was arrested at JFK after she arrived from Kingston, Jamaica Sunday.

Port Authority Police say the woman was "sweating and acting very nervous."

The woman went through a body X-ray that came back negative and she later admitted she had cocaine.  She was arrested and faces narcotics smuggling charges.