A Guatemalan woman flying in from El Salvador was stopped at Dulles airport on Sunday night and found to have four pounds of cocaine on her—cleverly hidden in chocolate bars and juice boxes. In a press release, the Customs and Border Protection fleshed out the details of the bust:
The woman arrived on a flight from San Salvador, El Salvador, and presented herself as a traveler for business. A CBP officer referred her to a secondary inspection for a baggage exam. In her baggage, CBP officers discovered eight chocolate bars, six of which contained a cocaine center, and six small drink boxes that contained plastic bags filled with cocaine. Total weight of the cocaine was 1,877 grams, or 4 pounds, 2 ounces. The street value was approximately $130,000.
The woman was not arrested, but she was removed from the U.S. and faces a five-year ban on returning.
Dulles continues to be the destination for creative-minded and ambitious drug traffickers, it seems. Last month, a Nigerian woman was stopped with five pounds of heroin pellets in her stomach—a new record for the international airport. Drugs have been trafficked into Dulles in everything from clams to bed posts.
In related news, I ate a chocolate bar on Monday and haven’t slept since. Weird.
