Miami - Surgeons opened up the stomach of a drug courier and found 80 heroin-filled condoms he tried to smuggle after one burst and stopped his heart, Miami police said yesterday.
The 59-year-old man whose name was being withheld, checked himself into Miami's Mercy Hospital on Monday complaining of chest and stomach pains, police said. X-rays revealed a trove of oblong-shaped pellets in his stomach.
The condoms, contained 1.5 pounds of heroin with a street value of $60,000.