Wednesday, March 10, 2010
Dutch Customs makes big cocaine haul in fake fruit cargo
First it was drugs among the flowers. Now, drug traffickers have stuffed real drugs into fake fruit in an effort to smuggle cocaine into the Netherlands, authorities said Wednesday.
On Monday, police uncovered euro25 million ($34 million) worth of cocaine hidden plastic pineapples that were scattered among a shipment of real fruit, prosecutors said.
The half-ton haul was intercepted when fruit packers unloading a consignment of pineapples saw some strange-looking fruit in the containers, said spokeswoman Marianne Goet.
While Dutch police tolerate soft drug use, they crack down on trafficking in hard drugs like cocaine and heroin.
-AP
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