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Freighter busted with a ton of cocaine hidden in dead sharks
Cocaine shark? Has a new meaning.There's a new way to smuggle cocaine into the U.S. from Mexico: put it in a dead shark.
I have to give them credit. It's a brilliant scheme. You could be all like "oh gosh, officer, I don't know why the shark did so much coke -- looks like that's what killed him, though. Oh well. Mystery solved. He was kinda talkin' my ear off. I need to take him to Miami to be cremated, cool?"
According to The BBC News:
"We are talking about more than a tonne of cocaine that was inside the ship," said Mexican Navy Commander Eduardo Villa. "Those in charge of the shipment said it was a conserving agent but after checks we confirmed it was cocaine."
Apparently, x-rays and sniffer dogs uncovered the great white deception on the freighter in the Gulf coast port of Progreso in Yucatan state.
We feel it would have been more appropriate to smuggle the coke in blowfish.
Filed under: North America, Mexico, News
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Paul Solomon Jun 17th 2009 8:55PM
Mexican drug smugglers get extra-credit bonus points for creativity after attempting to smuggle over a ton of cocaine inside 20 frozen shark carcasses. Details have not yet been released as to where the sharks were being delivered and to whom, but an unidentified spokesman said there is no truth to the rumor that the sharks were en route to an after-party for Lindsay Lohan.
Paul Solomon Jun 19th 2009 10:32PM
This gives new meaning to the phrase "Great White."