Police catch heroin smuggled in bread in eastern Turkey

Police arrested a female drug courier in eastern Turkey's Ezurum, who was on a bus transporting 10 kilograms of heroin nestled inside village bread.

Teams from the Directorate of Anti-Drug Control of the provincial police department started investigating when they received information that drugs would be sent from the eastern city of Van to Istanbul.

Police stopped a driver of a bus with unexplained license plates in the northern part of the city. They then searched the truck of the vehicle with a narcotic detecting dog named Çapkın.

The dog began to react to a sack filled with bread, and upon inspection police noticed that it was heavier than normal.

Using a knife to cut open the bread, they found a total of 10 kilograms of heroin separated into 200-gram bags.

After an examination, authorities concluded that the smugglers placed the heroine in transparent bags first, followed by a non-combustible material, and then placed them in flour dough. In order not to be apprehended by security forces, the drug traffickers apparently wanted to cook the dough and drive it to Istanbul.

Upon these determinations, the woman bus passenger who was carrying the drugs, identified as C.K., was taken into custody. She was charged with "carrying or transporting narcotics" under the criminal penalties imposed by police.