NYT's 2-part series on Drug smuggling in Indian Country

[NVMojo]

At the peak of her operation, Ms. Phair was running 12 to 15 Lummi women to Canada and back daily, each returning with 60 to 80 pills stuffed inside their bodies. Agents at the border posed few problems, Ms. Phair said. Body cavity searches are rare, the authorities acknowledge, and Ms. Phair said several of her drug runners could talk their way out of the exams by saying that they had been raped or were pregnant and that an exam would be too traumatic.

The cross-border runs were so successful, Ms. Phair said, that at the time of her arrest in June 2004 she was selling up to $30,000 worth of pills a day and clearing up to half of that in profits.

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http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/20/national/20gena.html?_r=1&th&emc=th&oref=slogin

or here:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/20/national/20gena.html?_r=1&th=&oref=slogin&emc=th&pagewanted=print