--- title: Two Canadian Women Instagrammed a Cocaine-Smuggling Cruise description: Isabelle Lagacé and Melina Roberge were arrested in Sydney with 200 lb. of cocaine found in their luggage canonical: https://time.com/4475436/cocaine-smuggling-women-canadian-instagram-cruise/ author: Rishi Iyengar article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-09-01T07:18:28.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:36:06.731Z og:title: Two Canadian Women Instagrammed a Cocaine-Smuggling Cruise og:description: Isabelle Lagacé and Melina Roberge were arrested in Sydney with 200 lb. of cocaine og:url: https://time.com/4475436/cocaine-smuggling-women-canadian-instagram-cruise/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltd0295dcfd66e41f3/6988a479cf40a89d1bc44ab8/screen-shot-2016-09-01-at-2-58-06-pm.png?branch=production&width=1440&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Screen Shot 2016-09-01 at 2.58.06 PM og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Two Canadian Women Instagrammed a Cocaine-Smuggling Cruise twitter:description: Isabelle Lagacé and Melina Roberge were arrested in Sydney with 200 lb. of cocaine twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltd0295dcfd66e41f3/6988a479cf40a89d1bc44ab8/screen-shot-2016-09-01-at-2-58-06-pm.png?branch=production&width=1440&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # This Is What a 7-Week Cocaine-Smuggling Cruise Looks Like on Instagram by [Rishi Iyengar](https://time.com/author/rishi-iyengar/) ## Rishi Iyengar Sep 1, 2016 7:18 AM UTC  Instagram by [Rishi Iyengar](https://time.com/author/rishi-iyengar/) ## Rishi Iyengar Sep 1, 2016 7:18 AM UTC Seventeen days before Isabelle Lagacé and Melina Roberge’s two-month cruise from England to Australia via several other countries was due to end, it was [abruptly cut short](http://time.com/4474824/canada-cruise-ship-cocaine-arrest/) in Sydney when they encountered Australian Federal Police. The duo, along with 63-year-old André Tarmine, were [arrested](https://www.afp.gov.au/news-media/media-releases/cruise-ship-raid-nets-95kg-cocaine-and-three-arrests-sydney) with more than 200 lb. of cocaine — worth over $22 million — in their luggage. The trio’s detention was the result of an investigation by Australian, Canadian and U.S. authorities, and tracking them down was undoubtedly made easier by the fact that Lagacé and Roberge documented their entire seven-week trip — spanning North America, South America and the Caribbean — on Instagram. The photographs may depict a dream vacation, but what will follow — possibly a [lifetime in prison](http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/08/31/canadian-women-who-boasted-of-lavish-selfie-cruise-on-instagram/) — will likely be a harsh reality check. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4475436/cocaine-smuggling-women-canadian-instagram-cruise/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4475436/cocaine-smuggling-women-canadian-instagram-cruise/"},"headline":"This Is What a 7-Week Cocaine-Smuggling Cruise Looks Like on Instagram","datePublished":"2016-09-01T07:18:28.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:36:06.731Z","description":"Isabelle Lagacé and Melina Roberge were arrested in Sydney with 200 pounds of the drug in their luggage","url":"https://time.com/4475436/cocaine-smuggling-women-canadian-instagram-cruise/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Australia","Crime","Arrest","Cocaine","smuggling","sydney","vacation","Cruise"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltd0295dcfd66e41f3/6988a479cf40a89d1bc44ab8/screen-shot-2016-09-01-at-2-58-06-pm.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Rishi Iyengar","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/rishi-iyengar/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltd0295dcfd66e41f3/6988a479cf40a89d1bc44ab8/screen-shot-2016-09-01-at-2-58-06-pm.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Screen Shot 2016-09-01 at 2.58.06 PM","caption":"","creditText":"Instagram","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4475436/cocaine-smuggling-women-canadian-instagram-cruise/","name":"This Is What a 7-Week Cocaine-Smuggling Cruise Looks Like on Instagram"}}]}] ```