An aspiring artist from the US who was part of major drug trafficking operation caught smuggling cocaine worth £8m into Manchester Airport has been jailed.
Chloe Sandoval, 22, became the latest member of the gang to face justice over a brazen operation to traffic high-purity cocaine into the UK in suitcases.
Five women and two men were recruited by crime bosses and paid to fly from the US to Manchester where they were ordered to hide in the airport toilet before picking up 12 bags stuffed with cocaine.
But the operation unravelled when X-rays picked up blocks inside the suitcases which had arrived from Cancun in Mexico. Three members of the group were arrested on the spot.
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