A female drug mule arrested.

The Police have arrested a 30-year-old female Namibian drug mule has been arrested at the OR Tambo International Airport.

SAPS, SARS custom, and immigration officials were following up on intelligence from SAPS of a drug mule that would land from Sau Paulo at about 07:25.

The team immediately intercepted the drug mule as she was making her way through immigration.

The process to release the suspected drugs from her body is underway. She has already released more than 60 bullets of suspected cocaine thus far. She is currently under police guard and custody.

This is the tenth drug mule to be arrested at the OR Tambo International Airport in the past two months and more than R30 million worth of drugs have been seized.