Housewives Accused of Drug Smuggling

A group of suburban homemakers posing as tourists allegedly smuggled hundreds of thousands of dollars’ worth of heroin and cocaine between the U.S., Europe and South America, U.S. officials said. The New York office of the Drug Enforcement Administration said five women from Long Island were among 14 people arrested so far in a two-year undercover probe of the drug-trafficking operation. “We have seen similar unstereotypical methods used in the past but not to this extent--involving middle-class women who acted as couriers and were careful not to make too many trips that would reveal a pattern,” said DEA special agent Robin Waugh.