Drug
Traffickers Get Creative In Hiding
Contraband: Costa Rican Frozen Sharks
Drug traffickers mocked Costa Rican customs
officials, shipping a ton of cocaine hidden
inside a shipment of frozen sharks. But it
wasn't until the Mexican navy smelled
something fishy that the drug shipment was
discovered.
The shipment, which according to the Costa
Rican ministra de Seguridad, Jannina del
Vecchio, made its way from Costa Rica to
Houston, Texas, with a final destination of
Mexico's Yucatan state.
Mexican navy inspectors at the southeastern
port of Progresso detected the anomaly in
the two shipping contained during a routine
X-ray of the cargo, leading inspectors to
focus on the frozen sharks.
Slitting the frozen sharks they found bags
containing the cocaine.
Mexican officials say that they found 870
packets of cocaine, weighing 894 kilograms
or 1.967 pounds of the ilicit drug.
The cargo was on board the freight ship
Dover Strait that had been loaded in Costa
Rica>
In recent years the United States and Mexico
have stepped up drug enforcement efforts,
pushing more of the drug trade to sea routes
and forcing drug smugglers to find more
creative ways to hide their contraband.
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The cargo, which was aboard the freight ship
Dover Strait, had been loaded in Costa Rica,
Mexican navy says |
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