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Authorities find 410 kilos of cocaine in boxes of bananas from Colombia

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Photo courtesy of Ministry of Public Security.

Photo courtesy of Ministry of Public Security.

November 26th, 2013 (InsideCostaRica.com) Authorities with the Ministry of Public Security discovered 410 kilograms of cocaine hidden in several boxes of bananas arriving from Colombia, the Ministry reported via a press release yesterday.

 

The cargo was in a container that arrived from the city of Turbo, in the department of Antoquia in Colombia.

 

The cocaine was located by a canine detection unit.  Authorities have no suspects related to the shipment at this time.

 

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  • NorthendFool

    Shipping bananas to Costa Rica?? We already have bananas here, plenty of them. he he he he he

    • expatin paradise

      I had the same initial reaction. Perhaps that was the red flag leading to discovery of the coke.

  • El Torito

    ‘Shipping bananas to Costa Rica’ puts a new twist to the old “Coals to Newcastle” metaphor.

  • Marcel M. Pfister

    There is a German freight line with a route from Hamburg-Le Havre-Guadeloupe-Martinique-Cartagena-Turbo-Limon and back to Europe. Turbo is in the middle of the swamps and is only a loading point for bananas to be shipped to Europe. The same ships also carry some passengers. When we deborded in Limon, the entire ship was searched by Costa Rica’s migration department as well as the Policia Control de Drogas (PCD) with sniffer dogs. Unloading boxes in Limon which were loaded in Turbo which – supposedly – had bananas as their content would altert anybody, really.

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