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. 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. (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. Probing further the officers discovered two plastic packages of a brown paste-like substance which tested positive for heroin. 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.
– 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.)