Drug Smugglers are increasingly using U.S. East Coast Airports – as evidenced by several large drug busts Federal Officers have reported in recent days (totalling almost $3 million):
Chocolate-covered cocaine at Dulles (DC):
US Customs & Border Protection (CBP) officers discovered more than 28 pounds of concealed inside 10 packages of hot chocolate beverage base while examining a food shipment brought through Dulles (DC) International Airport by a Guatemalan courier.
That ain’t instant cocoa – it’s cocaine!Photo byUS Customs & Border Protection
The CBP didn’t release a street value of this seizure – but, based on current data, it’s well over half a million dollars.
Heroin inside “instant coffee” (also at Dulles):
DC Dulles CBP Officers inspecting another courier shipment (again from Guatemala – see a pattern?) took a closer look at bags of what were supposed to contain coffee — and found heroin instead.
What was supposed to be a bag of coffee arriving at DC Dulles International from Guatemala was found to contain heroin instead.Photo byUS Customs & Border Protection