A 20-year-old student from the United Kingdom, Myah Saakwa-Mante, is facing federal charges after customs agents discovered over a dozen methamphetamine-soaked T-shirts in her luggage at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) earlier this month. According to CBS News , Saakwa-Mante was on her way to Brisbane , Australia, after a two-day stay in Los Angeles when the unusual discovery was made, raising questions about the sophistication of modern drug smuggling methods. How authorities discovered the meth-soaked T-shirts Court documents showed that Saakwa-Mante's pink suitcase was flagged for further inspection by TSA security officers on November 2 after an X-ray scan detected anomalies in the bag's contents.
TSA officers found jeans, shoes, a Louis Vuitton bag inside the suitcase, and a far more concerning discovery: a white powder residue loose in the suitcase, visible on the officers' gloves. Upon further inspection, agents discovered 13 neatly folded white T-shirts that were soaking wet and, as an affidavit cited by The LA Times noted , "caked with a white, powdery substance." The T-shirts, which appeared to be ordinary Target-brand garments, had been soaked with methamphetamine in a liquid form.
According to Fox News , the meth-soaked shirts weighed nearly 30 pounds, and investigators believe they contained several kilograms of the illicit drug. "Due to the moisture, the suspected methamphetamine was caked into the T-shirts and so could not be separated," according to th.
