“From Prison to Cocaine Trafficking: One Woman’s Story in Curacao”

Over time, the girl was expelled from school, spent some time in a juvenile colony, until she ended up in an adult prison “for theft and similar things”. When she was released from prison in 2001, Sharon decided to go to the small Caribbean island of Curacao – there were rumors that cocaine and Europe could be easily transported there.

There was a plan – she takes a suitcase full of drugs, takes it through customs and immediately returns to the Netherlands.

“The people I was supposed to work with didn’t look very trustworthy, so I decided to just not do it and instead live in Curaçao for a while. Everyone there regularly asked me if I could help transport cocaine because I was from the Netherlands. But I refused everyone, until one day I met one of my old friends,” reveals Sharon. “She asked me if I could help – I agreed. At that time, everyone did it – there were at least 20 people on every plane who were carrying drugs.

Even grandmothers sold drugs in Curaçao!”

To test how it worked, Sharon swallowed one vial filled with cocaine. Since everything went without a hitch, she swallowed about 70 more. Each bottle contained ten grams of cocaine, for the transfer of 100 grams you could get about 490 euros.

The cocaine was wrapped in plastic, then a rubber glove in latex, then sealed with packing tape, and then repackaged in plastic and latex. However, not always and not all the balloons were packed so well – a friend of Sharon’s died at the age of 19 because one of the balloons exploded in her stomach. “It was pure cocaine.