I Smuggled Cocaine Into the US to Pay Off My Student Loans

Like many millennials across the country, Luke graduated college owing thousands of dollars in student loan debt - $130,000, to be exact.

With no job and no money in the bank, Luke devised a desperate plan: he would smuggle cocaine from Panama to the United States to pay off his student loans.

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