A 50-year-old unemployed Taiwanese woman, identified only by the surname Wu, was stopped at Taoyuan Airport Terminal 1 after flying in from Bangkok in October 2025. Customs X-ray flagged her luggage, and over 30 packets of marijuana totalling about 16.2 kg were found hidden in gifts.
She says a man she met online paid for her Thailand trip and asked her to carry the gifts, and that she did not know they held drugs. Police believe she was used as an unwitting courier. The Aviation Police Bureau passed the case to Taoyuan prosecutors, who indicted her in mid-November. Police are still looking for the suspected mastermind and local accomplices.
Why it matters: Police themselves believe she was used as an unwitting courier, yet she was still indicted.
Source: Taiwan News, 2025-12-11. Forgotten Prisoner's account is based on this reporting. An arrest or charge is not proof of guilt.