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WHITE CHRISTMAS

the three friends were taken to a security room. As they watched, one of the boards was cut open and it revealed two embedded plastic bags, each with 500 grams of white powder. The rest of the boards were then cut and another ten bags uncovered.

Surfboards are very suspicious, obvious, doesn't work. Frank [De Castro Dias] already fucked up that equipment. It was a bad job too. You don't need to even put in an X-ray, you just hold it up to the light and you can see.

– Rafael

Incredibly, Rodrigo had agreed to do this run for Dimitrius just weeks after Marco was sent to death row.

The death penalty handed down to Brazilian Marco Archer Cardoso Moreira on 8 June for attempting to smuggle 13.7 kilos of cocaine from Peru apparently failed to deter three of his countrymen from attempting the same thing last week ... On Saturday, officers of the Interdiction Task Force at Soekarno-Hatta International Airport arrested the three Brazilians for trying to smuggle 6 kilos of cocaine from São Paulo in six out of eight surfboards they were carrying ... 'The agency strongly suspects that the three have a link with a John Miller, the person who gave Moreira the order to bring in the cocaine,' Makbul [National Narcotics Agency Director] said, adding that Miller was still at large.

– Jakarta Post, 6 August 2004

Rodrigo admitted guilt straight away, absolving his two friends, and now faced the probable death penalty alone.

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