- Maria Elena Rodriguez-Torres' drug smuggling adventure ends very badly in Danube City -

(Author's note: I started this series of pictures during the summer of 2007.  I realize that I have the potential beginning of a new novel with this concept, and possibly will further develop it into a longer story.  Anyhow, I decided to post the pictures created so far on this page.)

It all seemed so simple at first. $ 2,000, a fake passport, and a free ticket to Europe…who could turn down such an offer? And of course, Maria Elena was told there was no risk…and of course, she was dumb enough to believe them…

And just what does a young woman do to get $ 2,000 for 12 hours of work? By smuggling a kilo of cocaine…in her stomach. 100 pellets…and she’d better not lose a single one of them, or else her handler will kill her instead of paying her off.

But things are always more complicated than they appear at first sight. I guess that’s just the way life is, or maybe why she was enticed with so much money. It turned out that swallowing 100 pellets and keeping them down for the duration of a Trans-Atlantic flight was easier said than done, especially when a thunderstorm diverted the plane and forced the passengers to change flights in Danube City.

With her plane diverted and her trip lengthened, Maria Elena no longer could keep all those pellets down, and ended up having to put five of them in her pocket. She did not dare put them in the trash. Yes she was increasing the risk of being caught at the airport, but she had no choice. She was warned that if she lost a single pellet, her reward would be “el plomo” instead of “la plata”.

Well, of course our gullible heroine was caught as soon as she tried to board the outgoing flight to Germany. Yes, the police knew exactly what to look for, and poor Maria Elena’s worried expression gave her away. A quick sniff from a drug dog, and she’s caught.

Just five pellets…surly there’s more. Maria Elena denied having more, to her huge misfortune. The police knew better, and now she faced a formal interrogation.

First things first. From experience the police knew that their captive probably had a kilo of cocaine on her, or as it turned out, inside her. She was stripped, taken to an interrogation room, and ordered to give up any information she had on her handler. She refused, and was stupid enough to claim those five pellets must have been planted on her because she didn’t have any more.

We’ll see about that. The police restrained the prisoner in a leg-spreader, fully exposing the young captive to the view of several men in the room. The cops spent a few minutes admiring the body of their attractive detainee, but then the doctor got down to business. Maria Elena, with her hands cuffed and her legs widely spread, suffered the indignity of having the police doctor give her a thorough rectal exam in front of several witnesses.

Sure enough, there were more pellets up in there and one by one they started coming out. Caught in a lie, Maria Elena now understood that she was in a lot of trouble. What she didn’t yet realize was how much trouble.

The doctor gave the prisoner an enema to clean out her intestines. About half of the pellets came out and were lined up on a tray. Now it was a proven fact that Maria Elena had lied to the police. Showing her absolutely no mercy, the officers forced their captive to vomit the pellets remaining in her stomach into a bowl.

At that moment Maria Elena already was looking at a 45-year sentence: 20 years for perjury, 20 years for drug trafficking, and five years for cocaine possession. There is no tolerance for drugs in the Danubian Republic. It didn’t matter that Maria Elena had no intention of taking the pellets to Danubia, the fact remained that she entered the country with a kilo of cocaine while working for a drug trafficking organization, and then added to her problems when she lied to the police. Later she would go on trial and become a convicted criminal with formal rights. However she had a more immediate ordeal to endure, because she had not yet been formally charged and in the interrogation room had no legal status.

Under Danubian law, a suspect surrenders any rights, including the presumption of innocence, if she is caught telling a lie to a police officer. Maria Elena, caught in several false statements, now faced physical punishment. Because the police were conducting an interrogation on a prisoner who had willingly forfeited her rights by committing perjury, she could be submitted to sexual humiliation and multiple whippings.

There was no question that Maria Elena eventually would give up whatever information she had on her handlers, no matter how afraid she was of getting killed. The punishments simply would continue until she talked.

The first part of Maria Elena’s torment (after the traumatic enema and painful stomach purge), was an hour standing naked in an old-style pillory. She was completely helpless while the cops leisurely fondled her, photographed her, and explored her most intimate areas with their fingertips. As horrified as she was, seeing several officers holding punishment implements made her realize there was much worse to come. Still, knowing what her drug trafficking group was capable of doing to people, she continued to try to resist giving up any information.

That was not a problem for the Danubian police. As soon as Maria Elena talked, the cops would have to stop abusing her. Until she talked, they were free to do whatever they wanted to their captive.

Following more than an hour on the pillory, the cops returned Maria Elena to the interrogation room and forced her back into the leg spreader. After spending a lot more time fondling her, the cops were ready to get down to business and punish her with the collection of discipline implements owned by the Danubian National Police. This was a chance for the cops to try out different items such as riding crops and American-style paddles, because normally the only implement Danubian cops can use on a criminal is the traditional police switch under court supervision.

Trying out new things is always entertaining, especially if you are a police officer interrogating an attractive female prisoner, and there is no Spokesman-for-the-Criminal watching over her to spoil the fun.

During Maria Elena's interrogation, one of the things the Danubian police tried was having a female medical intern give the captive an orgasm, complete with the humiliation of being filmed.

As traumatic as this was for Maria Elena, it did not break her. A Danubian woman would have been mortified at being intimately touched by another woman, but to a foreigner having a forced orgasm was no worse than the other stuff being done to her.

Too bad for Maria Elena…if she’d just be willing to talk; the cops would be required to stop tormenting her and turn her over to a Spokesperson. However, as long as she was stubborn, she remained under their custody and at their mercy.

Finally Maria Elena broke. The cops forced her into a submissive position while she confessed and gave up the names of her handlers.

With that, Maria Elena's status suddenly changed. The cops took her before an arraignment committee, where the charges were read to her in English, a language she barely understood. No one in the Danubian National Police spoke Spanish, so Maria Elena still did not realize she would would be a collared criminal for 45 years and not be leaving Danube City until she was 65.