More than 20 bricks of cocaine, hidden in bundles of bananas, were delivered to grocery stores in Canada. The first report comes from the small town of Kelowna, Central Okanagan, British Columbia, where the owner of a small shop found a dozen packets of coke stuffed in his banana shipment. From The Independent:
“The drug division of the Kelowna RCMP Street Enforcement Unit has worked with the CBSA to establish that these shipments originated in Colombia,” Jeff Carroll of the Kelowna RCMP Drug Division said in a statement.
“Our investigation leads us to believe that these banned drugs were not intended to end up in the Central Okanagan and arrived here in the Okanagan Valley due to a missing pickup truck at some point along the road.”
According to Kelowna RCMP, experts estimate that the packages would have brought more than 800,000 doses of crack cocaine into the Canadian illegal drug market.
This is enough for every resident in the city of Kelowna to receive almost 6 doses each.
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