A Tesco
supermarket worker from Wokingham, Berkshire – in the UK – found more
than $1.5m worth of cocaine in a box of bananas this week, after
unpacking the delivery from Costa Rica.
The stash, packed up into five packets,
has an enormous street value due to the high purity of it. Uncut and
direct from Central America, this is the highest grade cocaine about.
And the guy found it laying next to some bananas.
Next? He handed it into the police…
The
boxes of bananas were piled up in a metal cage and being unwrapped ready
to put on the shelves. The young man spotted the box with red tape and
decided to take a closer look.”
“He opened the box and saw the
packets underneath the bananas. He was understandably shocked. You don’t
need to be a genius to know what it is.”
Another source at the store added this:
“Staff are a bit worried as drug smugglers are desperate people. They could come looking for their cocaine. It’s terrible to think of the human misery this stuff would have caused if it had ended up on the streets.”
More than a
quarter of a million boxes of bananas are imported every single week by
Tesco in from Central and South America. And, as you probably know –
that’s where almost all of the world’s cocaine comes from.
Most of the bananas shipped into the UK
come from Costa Rica, where coke production and smuggling is
particularly widespread. Last year alone, authorities seized a
staggering 30 tons of the stuff!
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