Melissa Reid, of Lenzie, in video after Peru airport drugs bust A Scots teenager arrested in Peru over alleged £1.5m drug smuggling told police in a taped interview she was "forced" to take luggage containing cocaine. Melissa Reid has been arrested and is accused of being part of a cocaine trafficking operation in the South American country. A video taken by police at Jorge Chavez International Airport of 19-year-old Ms Reid and co-accused, Irish national Michaella McCollum Connolly surfaced on Tuesday. Ms Reid, of Lenzie, East Dunbartonshire, was on a working holiday in Ibiza when she was arrested at the airport in Lima last Tuesday after sniffer dogs detected cocaine in her luggage and that of her friend. In the video, the former Lenzie Academy pupil states that she had been "forced" to take the bags and claims she "did not know" there were drugs contained in them. Ms Reid is questioned by a police interviewer and is heard to say: "I was forced to take these bags in my luggage." When asked if she knew they contained drugs, the teenage responds: "I did not know that." The footage shows police removing packages of white powder from packets of crisps that have been removed from the pair's luggage. The Foreign Office has confirmed it has visited Ms Reid who is being held in a police station in Peru, while it stated it is providing "consular assistance" to her following her arrest last week. Police said they found more than 24lb of cocaine - thought to be worth around £1.5m - hidden in food in the women's luggage. Ireland's Department of Foreign Affairs said it was also providing consular assistance to the family of Ms Connolly, who had recently been living in Belfast.