Woman held at Ogle discharges more cocaine pellets

The 23-year-old woman who was arrested on Saturday at the Eugene F Correia International Airport for possession of narcotics, which she allegedly swallowed and stuffed in her vagina has since discharged twenty-five more pellets.

The police in a press release yesterday said that the woman discharged twenty pellets over the weekend and an additional five yesterday morning.

Previous reports had revealed that the woman was subject to a physical search around 11am Saturday after she was observed acting in a suspicious manner.

At the time she was an outgoing passenger on Caribbean Airlines flight #215, destined for Barbados.

The police had said that she passed out a quantity of the narcotics which was in a bulky package, wrapped in condoms that was stuffed in her vagina.

She was questioned and subsequently admitted to swallowing 73 narcotics pellets, the police added.

The woman is likely to be charged soon.

- Sri Lanka’s former pace spearhead Chaminda Vaas has resigned as the team’s fast bowling coach for the tour of West Indies hours before their departure to the Caribbean over his remuneration, the country’s cricket board said yesterday.

Vaas, who retired from international cricket in 2009 having claimed 355 wickets from 111 tests, was appointed by Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) only on Friday and announced his resignation effective March 26.

He will not be available to tour West Indies as a member of the support staff, the board added, and described Vaas’ decision as “irresponsible.”

“It’s particularly disheartening to note that in an economic climate such as the one facing the globe now, Vaas has made this sudden and irresponsible move on the eve of the team’s departure based on personal monetary gain,” SLC said in a statement.

SLC said Vaas had resorted to “holding the administration, the cricketers and the game at ransom” by resigning citing the administration’s refusal to accede to an “unjustifiable demand for an increased USD remuneration”.

Vaas is a contracted employee of SLC and worked as the fast bowling coach at their high-performance centre before replacing Australian David Saker with the senior team.

Sri Lanka play three Twenty20 and three one-day internationals plus two tests - all behind closed doors in Antigua from March 3.