NEW YORK, New York – A Jamaican man arriving at New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport was found to have a pound of cocaine stuffed inside his underwear.
U. S. Customs and Border Protection said officers at the airport searched Romario Lewis, a Jamaican citizen who flew April 16 to New York from Kingston, Jamaica, and discovered he was hiding two packages of cocaine in the groin area of his underwear.
Investigators said the packages totaled 1 pound – approximately $19,000 worth of cocaine.