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"Coke" Can - Not What it's Cracked Up to Be

By  JACKIE MORLOCK

Updated 10:18 AM CDT, Thu, Nov 6, 2008

NBC 10

Crack cocaine found inside two separate Coke cans on a U.S. Airways flight Friday.

 

Just imagine you crack open a can of Coca-Cola only to discover it's packed with crack cocaine. Oh, it can happen.

Two airtight baggies of crack cocaine were stashed in two separate Coke cans on a U.S. flight from Montego Bay, Jamaica to Philadelphia on Friday, October 31, 2008.

How much drugs were actually found? 16 ounces or about 450 grams of cocaine, discovered by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP).

“For many of us, it is the first time we’ve witnessed narcotics smuggled in cola cans, but for each one of these unique smuggling methods we detect, it is one less concealment method bad guys can use,” Allan Martocci, CBP’s Director for the Port of Philadelphia said.

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  • James Monday, Nov 10 at 5:33 AM FLAG COMMENT The people who smuggle it using any of these method are just plain dumb... There are scanners at airports people! Wake the hell up.
  • No drugs for you! Sunday, Nov 9 at 12:49 PM FLAG COMMENT Why can CBT not go to the source and eliminate the threat? Stupid international rules! Let's seen in the professional soliders and take out the threat! If forgien bodies will not help then we must act on our own and stop the outsiders, one way or another. Get the BANG in this message? Maybe force the source to use all of it at once on themselves! Then they will never worry again .... end of threat.
  • joe mama's an idiot Friday, Nov 7 at 11:09 AM FLAG COMMENT "Joe mama" are you kidding me? Instead of being sick of "ignorant cop-types" you should be sick of ignorant drug user types. Cocaine and its derivitaves are narcotics, while they are chemically not narcotics, they are considered narcotics in the U.S. Substance Control Act which governs the use of drugs in this country. So perhaps it's not the "ignorant cop-types" you should be speaking of but rather yourself the "ignorant kn ... MORE >
  • classic57lion Friday, Nov 7 at 7:17 AM FLAG COMMENT Yet another "gargantuan" bust, and a "major" victory in the War On Drugs! Save the push 4 me !!!
  • joe mama Friday, Nov 7 at 2:52 AM FLAG COMMENT I am tired of seeing ignorant cop-types refer to stimulants as narcotics. I think they are using too much seized product. Their brains are unable to differentiate between the various drugs. There are doctors that can help them, if they're willing. First, they must admit they have a problem

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