text: U. S. Customs & Border Protection Bernard Charles, a Trinidad and Tobago citizen was discovered at John F. Kennedy International Airport with two clear packages filled with heroin stuffed into his groin area. 
   
   Those weren’t ants in his pants. 
   
   A Trinidadian national observed "walking awkwardly" in Kennedy Airport was nabbed for smuggling nearly two pounds of heroin in his underwear, authorities said Tuesday. 
   
   Bernard Charles stepped off Caribbean Airlines flight No. 520 on April Fool's Day and immediately caught the attention of Customs and Border Protection officers, according to a complaint filed in Brooklyn Federal Court. 
   
   Charles, 42, was detained for an enforcement examination and appeared "visibly nervous" and "avoided eye contact" while the officers examined his suitcase, according to U.S. Homeland Security special agent Sean Gabay. 
   
   Focusing on Charles' awkward gait, the officers patted him down and discovered a "hard object in the defendant's groin area," Gabay stated in the complaint. 
   
   Richard Harbus/for New York Daily news A man from Trinidad was arrested at Kennedy Airport for allegedly trying to smuggle nearly two pounds of heroin. Customs and Border Protection agents said Bernard Charles looked “visibly nervous” when he got off his flight April 1. 
   
   Probing further the officers discovered two plastic packages of a brown paste-like substance which tested positive for heroin. The drugs have a street value of more than $70,000, authorities said. 
   
   Charles was ordered held without bail. He faces 10 years in prison if convicted of the drug smuggling charges. 
   
   "This seizure is just another example of our Customs and Border Patrol officers being ever vigilant in protecting the United States from the distribution of these illegal drugs," said New York Field Operations Director Robert Perez in a statement. 
   
   jmarzulli@nydailynews.com ||||| April 15, 2014 2:35 PM 
   
   Packages of heroin authorities said were found in a suspect’s underwear at JFK. (credit: U.S. Customs and Border Protection) 
   
   NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — A man has been arrested after authorities said he tried to smuggle drugs into the U.S. by hiding nearly two pounds of heroin in his underwear. 
   
   It happened back on April 1 at John F. Kennedy Airport. 
   
   Authorities said Bernard Charles was acting nervously while his bags were being inspected by Customs officers after arriving at JFK on a flight from Trinidad. 
   
   He was then taken to a private search room where Customs officers found two, clear packages in Charles’ groin area, authorities said. The packages contained a brown paste-like substance that tested positive for heroin, authorities said. 
   
   In all, 1.79 pounds of heroin was seized, which has an approximate street value of more than $70,000, authorities said. 
   
   Charles was arrested and turned over to Homeland Security Investigations and faces federal narcotics smuggling charges. 
   
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target: – Pro tip: If you're going to smuggle heroin in your underwear, try to walk like a normal person while doing so. Bernard Charles apparently couldn't manage that, so when Customs and Border Protection officers spotted him "walking awkwardly" at New York's JFK Airport on April 1, they patted him down—and found a "hard object in [his] groin area" that ended up being two clear packages holding 1.79 pounds of heroin, according to US Homeland Security. Charles, a 42-year-old citizen of Trinidad and Tobago, was initially detained when he disembarked Caribbean Airlines Flight 520 and appeared "visibly nervous," avoiding eye contact; customs officers were examining his suitcase at the time, CBS New York reports, and they brought him to a private search room. That's when they noticed his gait and patted him down, the New York Daily News reports. The drugs he was allegedly carrying are worth more than $70,000 on the street, according to authorities. He faces 10 years in prison for drug smuggling. (A celeb recently confessed to smuggling cocaine onto planes, for her own personal use.)