Peruvian Woman Detained in Bali for Drug Smuggling Using a Sex Toy

N.S., arrested at Bali's airport, is accused of hiding cocaine and ecstasy worth $70,000, an act that could lead to the death penalty under Indonesian law. She claims to have been paid by a dark web contact to transport the narcotics.

A 42-year-old woman from Peru, referred to by her initials N.S., was recently arrested in Bali for allegedly attempting to smuggle a significant quantity of drugs into the Indonesian island. Indications are that she concealed approximately $70,000 worth of cocaine and ecstasy in her personal belongings, including her underwear and a sex toy inserted within her body.

Authorities reported that customs officers found the woman acting suspiciously, which prompted them to conduct a search that revealed six packages of narcotics wrapped in black duct tape hidden in her green bra. Additionally, three more packages in black underwear and a drug-laden sex toy were also discovered by police. The total weight of the confiscated drugs amounted to 1.4 kilograms (approximately 3.1 pounds) of cocaine and 43 pills of ecstasy, according to Radiant, director of Bali’s narcotics unit.

N.S. was charged under Indonesia's stringent drug laws, facing severe consequences if convicted, including the possible death penalty. Radiant explained that the woman confessed to receiving $19,000 in return for trafficking the drugs, which she was allegedly recruited to carry by someone she met on the dark web in April before traveling from Barcelona, Spain, with a layover in Doha, to Bali's international airport.

Indonesia has a notoriously strict stance on drug trafficking and has previously imposed the death penalty on foreigners for drug-related offenses, though there has been a moratorium on executions since 2017. Recent reports indicate that three British nationals similarly escaped the death penalty after being convicted for smuggling cocaine disguised as popular dessert packets into the country just last month.