An American woman has admitted smuggling cocaine into New Zealand hidden inside puffer jackets.
Jamie Hudson Mendez, 44, was caught with 2.5kg of highly pure cocaine lined inside five jackets in her luggage at Christchurch International Airport last September.
Authorities claimed the illegal Class-A drug had a street value of around $875,000.
It's understood she had flown to New Zealand from Zimbabwe via Ethiopia and Singapore, and her travel had come to the attention of Customs officers.