Canadian Drug Mule Says She Made Cocaine Cruise a Vacation

Canadian Drug Mule Says She Made Cocaine Cruise a Vacation
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SYDNEY, Australia—A Canadian woman told an Australian court on Wednesday that her only role in a plot to smuggle cocaine worth $16 million into Sydney was to make the luxury cruise ship operation look like a vacation.

Three Canadians have pleaded guilty in the New South Wales state District Court to smuggling 95 kilograms of the drug in their luggage in a seven-week cruise in 2016 from Britain to Ireland, the United States, Bermuda, Colombia, Panama, Ecuador, Peru, Chile, then Australia,