Mexican navy finds coke in frozen sharks
Posted on: Thursday, 18 June 2009, 11:11 CDT
The Mexican navy said it has seized 1,967 pounds of cocaine that was being smuggled inside of frozen sharks.
Navy inspectors in the port town of Progreso on the southeastern shore of Mexico said they slit open one of the frozen sharks after detecting an anomaly on an X-ray and black bags filled with rectangular cocaine packets spilled out, CNN reported Friday.
The navy said a total 870 packets of cocaine, about 1,967 pounds, were seized from the shark shipment. Officials said the freight ship carrying the sharks, the Dover Strait, had been loaded in Costa Rica.
Source: United Press International
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