Cocaine cookies, opium soap, meth-filled cheese: The weirdest drug busts of 2014
COCAINE in cookies, meth in cheese, opium hidden in bars of soap — drug smugglers have become increasingly creative in recent years.
COCAINE in cookies, meth in cheese, opium hidden in bars of soap — drug smugglers have become increasingly creative in recent years.
The US Customs and Border Protection agency has taken to Twitter to unveil its most unusual busts of 2014.
“We find things in really weird places,” US Customs and Border Protection spokeswoman Jennifer Evanitsky, who amassed the list, told Huffington Post. “Smugglers got creative.”
As some pointed out, however, the smart smugglers don’t make it on lists like this:
The countdown to 2015 is on. To celebrate #CBP will highlight 10 of our strangest seizures of the year. #CBPTop10
â CBP (@CustomsBorder) December 23, 2014
No. 10 - A July seizure of 67 live Giant African Snails at LAX. http://t.co/jwAcklV7En #CBPTop10 pic.twitter.com/UgtqYgeZma
â CBP (@CustomsBorder) December 23, 2014
No. 9-In June, #CBP K9s alerted to heroin & meth hidden inside fire extinguishers http://t.co/oxx7f5jmno #CBPTop10 pic.twitter.com/XHtbCQU48x
â CBP (@CustomsBorder) December 24, 2014
No. 8 - CBP kept these cocaine-filled tamales off the menu of an end of summer party http://t.co/bw7VOKnhxv #CBPTop10 pic.twitter.com/P0anVK0E4v
â CBP (@CustomsBorder) December 24, 2014
No.7-Not your Grandma's cookies. Officers found cocaine hidden inside these in June http://t.co/h0xOuxevBE #CBPTop10 pic.twitter.com/3y4dCpSVbI
â CBP (@CustomsBorder) December 25, 2014
No.6-Even religious statues arenât off limits for smugglers shown by this Nov find http://t.co/ropPorbssp #CBPTop10 pic.twitter.com/STQQcE4QOR
â CBP (@CustomsBorder) December 26, 2014
No.5 - Smugglers up to no "Gouda." Meth was found inside this cheese wheel in Apr. http://t.co/Hz7H9dMZ8D #CBPTop10 pic.twitter.com/wniOrcZ5BL
â CBP (@CustomsBorder) December 27, 2014
No. 4-In Sept, #CBP officers found opium in 66 bars of soap shipped from Thailand http://t.co/CfK05M6zex #CBPTop10 pic.twitter.com/OVBEblIpek
â CBP (@CustomsBorder) December 29, 2014
No.3âThis accordionâs pitch was off due to the meth officers found inside in June http://t.co/1WLrMRkYvm #CBPTop10 pic.twitter.com/jTAGzxaCEA
â CBP (@CustomsBorder) December 30, 2014
No.2âDolls usually come with their own hairbrush, not $52k of heroin like #CBP officers discovered in Sept. #CBPTop10 pic.twitter.com/aTm0gWuWK6
â CBP (@CustomsBorder) December 30, 2014
No. 1âA modern day Trojan Horse! #CBP officers found 29lbs of cocaine hidden inside http://t.co/ch2k6NL2Nh #CBPTop10 pic.twitter.com/lWNqOqr7bD
â CBP (@CustomsBorder) December 31, 2014