Mauricio
Isidro Rivera Hernandez, from Guatemala, was taken aside by U.S.
Customs and Border Protection at Newark Liberty International Airport
earlier this month after raising suspicion with his three checked bags
containing cookies. Upon inspection, the baked goods in question were
not just cookies, but also vessels for three pounds of cocaine.
U.S. Customs representative Anthony Bucci told the New Jersey Star-Ledger:
Officers discovered cookies in his three checked bags. Inside the cookies, officers found 118 small, oval-shaped pellets of cocaine. The pellets contained a total of 3 pounds of cocaine with an an approximate street value of $52,000, according to Bucci.
CBS New York reports
that Rivera Hernandez was turned over to Port Authority police and is
facing narcotics smuggling charges. No one appears to have tasted the
non-cocaine parts of the cookies.
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