Gooey chocolate goodness on the outside, powdered cocaine madness on the inside

[villian]

In the perpetual Annals of Drug Smugglers’ Ingenuity, we can now add cocaine hidden inside chocolate bars and juice boxes. Customs and Border Protection found the sugary narcotic surprises inside a Guatemalan woman’s luggage Sunday night at Dulles International Airport.

After she arrived on a late flight from San Salvador, CBP officers checked the woman’s bag and found “eight chocolate bars, six of which contained a cocaine center” (the other two didn’t even have boring old nougat, just cheap solid chocolate) and six small drink boxes that contained plastic bags filled with cocaine,” according to a press release. As if cheap chocolate and juice boxes hadn’t already tragically addicted generations of American kids.

Not sure who had the idea to cut open a chocolate bar looking for drugs, but CBP Port Director Christopher Hess said in the release that officers are “very good at finding illicit substances concealed in novel ways.” Or they were hungry. Either way, the woman somehow convinced the officers that she was “a legitimate courier,” and she was not charged, though she was put on the next plane back to Central America.

The total amount of coke in the chocolate and juice boxes was four pounds, two ounces, with a street value of $130,000, CBP said. The street value of the chocolate probably did not reach double digits.

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[shishigami]

Either way, the woman somehow convinced the officers that she was “a legitimate courier,” and she was not charged, though she was put on the next plane back to Central America.

What? What exactly is a legitimate courier.

 

[phenmetrazine]

^I am assuming that it means that she had no idea that the drugs were in her bag and she was just couriering them for someone else.

 

[LogicSoDeveloped]

^ That's just strange considering that she was delivering chocolate and juice boxes...I mean, who pays someone to deliver chocolate and juice boxes? Is a person necessary to make sure those items get to the correct destination? Why even ship those things when they can be bought at any grocery store?

 

[StoneyStace]

That looks quite tasty. 8)

 

[Herbal~Jah]

just fucking end the drug war, DEA and make all "drugs" legal.... 100% totally legal just as they were back in 1900... Our founding fathers would be horrified if they could see our world today... there is no reason not to have "drugs" (i use quotes b/c they are just substances, drugs has a stigma now) illegal, it just makes no sense to lock people in cages and strip them of their humanity b/c they have a fucking substance on them that the gov't deems "ILLEGAL".... god i can't stand this world, its just too insane and retarded for me to comprehend...how do you people even live with yourselves that work in the LE community?/