Forensic investigation in a body packer case
Purpose: To account for the problems posed by the use of narcotics in Colombia,regardless of type, person, reason or socioeconomic status. Topics: Overdose cases, treatments, guidelines for managing and approaching the issue of narcotics, or nowadays often referred to as “recreatio...
- Autores:
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Baquero Villa, Miguel Ángel
- Tipo de recurso:
- Article of journal
- Fecha de publicación:
- 2015
- Institución:
- Universidad Cooperativa de Colombia
- Repositorio:
- Repositorio UCC
- Idioma:
- spa
- OAI Identifier:
- oai:repository.ucc.edu.co:20.500.12494/44308
- Acceso en línea:
- https://revistas.ucc.edu.co/index.php/ml/article/view/1175
https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12494/44308
- Palabra clave:
- body packer
cocaine
forensic
gastrointestinal
intoxication
investigation
body packer
cocaína
forense
gastrointestinal
intoxicación
investigación
body packer
cocaína
forense
gastrointestinal
intoxicação
investigação
- Rights
- openAccess
- License
- Derechos de autor 2015 Revista Colombia Forense
| Summary: | Purpose: To account for the problems posed by the use of narcotics in Colombia,regardless of type, person, reason or socioeconomic status. Topics: Overdose cases, treatments, guidelines for managing and approaching the issue of narcotics, or nowadays often referred to as “recreational drugs”. Development: This article refers to the case of a young woman in Armenia (Quindío, Colombia), of whom, at the time of autopsy, there was no information available to suspect that this was a case of body packer intoxication. Conclusions: These cases are rare; therefore, there is a possibility that the approach to the scene is not appropriate from the forensic-investigative point of view, which must be complete and consider items available around the scene and the circumstances surrounding the death. This is because, when addressing this case, there was not the slightest hint of suspicion that it would become a case of drug transportation or ‘mules’. |
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