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Bogota (AFP) — Colombian police seized
a shipment of black cocaine that is almost
impossible to detect with traditional
anti-trafficking methods, regional police
chief Fabio Cardona said.
"It's the first time we have encountered
this type of cocaine," Cardona said after
reporting that 15 packets of the drug had
been discovered in the fuel tank of a car
heading to the El Dorado airport in Bogota.
"It's one of the many strategies of the
traffickers" to evade authorities, said
Cardona.
Black cocaine has no odor, making it
extremely difficult to detect, even for
well-trained drug-sniffing dogs.
The 15 drug packets, of undetermined weight,
were only found to be cocaine two days after
their seizure, after police sent the stash
to police laboratories to investigate their
chemical compound.
Black cocaine can often be smuggled
undetected -- disguised as plastic coating,
print cartridge toner, make-up or fertilizer
-- and effectively washed out with a solvent
upon delivery.
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