United States v. Figueroa

ORDER

JUSTO ARENAS, United States Chief Magistrate Judge.

The defendant Sydney Benjamin Figueroa arrived in Puerto Rico on May 16, 2010 from Panama due to an emergency landing of a flight destined for Amsterdam. The flight was diverted because he became ill on the airplane due to the apparent rupture of one of the many cocaine pellets (about 50) he carried in his digestive tract. (This was the fifth time he has transported using this method.) Customs and Border Protection officers paroled the defendant into the United States for medical reasons. The defendant underwent emergency surgery to…