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Friday, January 27, 2012

35 pounds of cocaine mistakenly shipped to UN

A shipment containing $2 million worth of cocaine was intercepted by security last week in the mailroom at United Nations headquarters in New York.

The bags were shipped from Mexico via a DHL center in Cincinnati, Ohio. The cocaine was stuffed inside hollowed out books and hidden inside two mailbags marked with bogus UN logos.

Police suspect it’s a botched drug smuggling attempt. Since there was no addressee, and because of the “UN logo,” DHL shipped the bags on to the UN, thinking the global body would figure out who it was supposed to go to.

Officials have a working theory that the drugs were never meant to leave Mexico.

- New York Post

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