Video: Peru drugs bust: the moment British women Melissa Read and Michaella McCollum Connolly were arrested Melissa Reid, 19, from Lenzie near Glasgow, and Michaella McCollum Connolly, 20, from Belfast were detained in Peru as they attempted to check in for an Air Europa flight to Madrid. Peru police said that narcotics agents searched the pair and discovered a total of 25.35 pounds of cocaine hidden in their luggage. Miss Reid's suitcase allegedly contained 18 food product packets, inside which was a total of 12.74 pounds of cocaine. A further 12.8 pounds of the class A drug was allegedly discovered stuffed inside another 16 food packets in Miss McCollum Connolly's luggage.