“An 81-year-old woman who arrived in court Thursday in a wheelchair plotted to smuggle 9,931 doses of ecstasy in her luggage on a flight from London, authorities charged.

“Stella Carla Bonanomi Michetti spoke to U.S. Magistrate Judge Ted Bandstra through an Italian interpreter as he accepted an agreement between lawyers setting bail for her and a companion at $250,000 each,” WSVN News in Miami reports.

Attorneys were appointed for Michetti and Hans Hirschi, 56, who said he owned a failed restaurant in the Dominican Republic.

He told customs inspectors when they arrived Wednesday on a British Airways flight that they were traveling together.

Tablets of the party drug were found wrapped around books in their bags, Customs Service agent Alicia Vereen wrote in a criminal complaint against them. Hirschi’s bag held 5,630 tablets for a combined weight of nearly 7 pounds.

7 pounds o’ X? Damn! That’s a-one a-spicy meatball, granny…!

[link via Drudge Report]

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