http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080315/us_ ... a_drugs_dc
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SAN JOSE, Costa Rica (Reuters) - An American in Costa Rica was caught smuggling nearly a pound of cocaine (0.4 kg) in his stomach after he went into convulsions on a plane bound for Miami, police said on Friday.
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The 22-year-old man swallowed dozens of capsules stuffed with the drug before boarding a plane on Thursday in the Costa Rican capital, San Jose.
Police said he started to vomit and convulse before the plane took off and was rushed to a hospital where he was still recovering on Friday.
"They had to open him up too remove the capsules," said police spokeswoman Marielos Barbosa.