State authorities are informing us that they are arresting a Dominican who flew to the New York John F. Kennedy Airport (JFK) with a five-pound (2.2 kg) empty tomato cocaine valued at $ 160,000.
Keiter Elian Rijo Morales, 26 years old, “has ten more allegations with albondigas in mind when the agents of the Office of the Aduanas and the Frontier Protection (CBP) collect their illegal condiment” at the address, informs the agency in a communicated.
Rijo Morales left New York on December 26 in a filthy procedure by Santo Domingo (Dominican Republic) and agents inspected a large sheet of metal that was loaded with the label “Bella tomato paste”, which results in another cosa.
“The CBP agents open the container and discover a white powdered substance that has a positive effect on cocaine“, explained the agency, while the man was detained for importing a controlled and entrenched substance in the Department of National Security Investigations.
The arrest was carried out on a five-pound tomato pot (2.2 kilos) of cocaine, which in the Hubbie calf had a price of 160,000 dollars, according to an estimate by the authorities.
“The contraband of illicit drugs imposes a significant amenity on our nation and the CBP has its paper on how to maintain these drugs from our calls,” explains Troy Miller, director of New York agency operations.
“As a unified security agency on the frontiers of the EU, our employees are determined to protect the public from these issues,” he said.
Rijo Morales is being charged with federal drug trafficking charges and in his case will be prosecuted by the Fiscal Officer in New York District East.