Brasilia, Dec 21 (EFE) A Brazilian woman died after swallowing 60 crack cocaine rocks to prevent police from arresting her son on drug charges, a media report said.
Joselita de Moraes died Saturday at a hospital in Maceio, the capital of the northeastern state of Alagoas.
Police went to the woman’s residence Friday to question her 16-year-old son, who had been identified as a drug dealer, the Terra Web site reported.
The teenager had 60 crack cocaine rocks at home that Moraes swallowed in a desperate attempt to destroy the evidence.
Officers called for an ambulance to take the woman to the hospital, where she died from the overdose of crack cocaine, which is becoming increasingly popular in Brazil.
