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ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) - Customs agents said they found 13 pounds of Ecstasy pills
in the luggage of a Dutch woman who expressed surprised at the discovery - she
told investigators she thought she was smuggling gold.

Patricia Maria Brujnius, 39, arrived at Orlando International Airport on
Saturday on a flight from London, according to records released Tuesday in
federal court. She was scheduled to appear in court next week.

Brujnius told investigators she was to be paid $5,000 for delivering the
suitcase with hidden compartments, as she had done twice before, the court
papers said.

The street value of the 2,250 pills was at least $731,250.

Ecstasy, also known as MDMA, is a hallucinogen-stimulant.

Several Europeans have been charged with attempting to smuggle large quantities
of the drug into Orlando in recent years, including a Dutch woman caught in
1999 with 27 pounds of the pills hidden in her luggage.