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$18 million in cocaine shows up amid bananas given to prison
Posted on 9/23/18 at 1:20 pm
Posted on 9/23/18 at 1:20 pm
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On Friday, department officers went to pick up two pallets of donated fruit and quickly discovered something off about the weight of the boxes.
"One of the sergeants just noticed one of the boxes didn't seem quite right," Jeremy Desel, department spokesperson, told CNN affiliate KTRK. "[He] looked a little further, removed that box off one of the pallets, took a look inside and saw something extraordinarily suspicious." Within the boxes, officials discovered 540 packages of cocaine hidden among bundles of bananas. Police list the value of the drugs at almost $18 million. The donation came from Port of America in Freeport, Texas, according to the department, though it's unclear who or when the cocaine entered the shipment.
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This isn't the first time drug smugglers have tried to use fruit to hide contraband. In 2017, almost two tons of marijuana was disguised as limes in a commercial shipment coming across the Texas-Mexico border.
More than 34,000 of the fake fruit packages were discovered by an imaging inspection system and narcotics K-9 team. The drugs are valued at approximately $789,467, according to the US Customs and Border Protection statement.
Two years ago, 2,493 pounds of marijuana were concealed in carrot-shaped packaging entering from Mexico.
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Posted on 9/23/18 at 1:26 pm to East Coast Band
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Within the boxes, officials discovered 1080 packages of cocaine hidden among bundles of bananas. The officials reported approximately half (or 540) of them
Fixed.
Posted on 9/23/18 at 1:30 pm to East Coast Band
Sorry for attempting to party
Posted on 9/23/18 at 1:56 pm to East Coast Band
Someone is finna get decapatated.
Posted on 9/23/18 at 2:00 pm to East Coast Band
Posted on 9/23/18 at 2:03 pm to East Coast Band
My monkeys and I are going to be really depressed
Posted on 9/23/18 at 2:15 pm to East Coast Band
Posted on 9/23/18 at 2:17 pm to East Coast Band
Where were these bananas when I was in prison?
Posted on 9/23/18 at 2:24 pm to East Coast Band
Why would that much coke be shipped to a prison? Wouldn’t they want it on the streets? I get sending your buddy some while he’s locked up, but $18 million worth seems excessive.
Posted on 9/23/18 at 2:25 pm to Tyga Woods
I’ve seen better looking cocaine laiden shipments of bananas in the quad
Posted on 9/23/18 at 2:25 pm to DavidTheGnome
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Why would that much coke be shipped to a prison? Wouldn’t they want it on the streets? I get sending your buddy some while he’s locked up, but $18 million worth seems excessive.
Warden is the dealer?
Posted on 9/23/18 at 2:26 pm to Tyga Woods
It’ll never get snorted in time
Posted on 9/23/18 at 2:26 pm to hombreman9
Fail
Posted on 9/23/18 at 2:27 pm to DavidTheGnome
Somebody was probably supposed to pick it up before it arrived to the prison. Either at the warehouse or off the delivery truck
Posted on 9/23/18 at 2:34 pm to Tyga Woods
That guy is really close to dying if he hasn't already.
Posted on 9/23/18 at 2:34 pm to DavidTheGnome
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Why would that much coke be shipped to a prison?
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The donation came from Port of America in Freeport, Texas, according to the department
The prison wasn't the intended recipient of the bananas. The port probably donated the bananas to the prison when the bananas weren't picked up in a timely manner by the importer.
Posted on 9/23/18 at 2:38 pm to East Coast Band
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In 2017, almost two tons of marijuana was disguised as limes in a commercial shipment coming across the Texas-Mexico border. More than 34,000 of the fake fruit packages were discovered by an imaging inspection system and narcotics K-9 team. The drugs are valued at approximately $789,467,
Damn that’s some messican ditch weed
Posted on 9/23/18 at 3:46 pm to East Coast Band
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18 million in cocaine
Is that street value or prison value?
Posted on 9/23/18 at 4:57 pm to East Coast Band
This post was edited on 9/23/18 at 4:58 pm
Posted on 9/23/18 at 5:00 pm to LSU6262
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Is that street value or prison value?
Street value
Prison value would be 40million cigarettes and 2.5 million HJs
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