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Cocaine-filled coconuts shipped through Port Everglades
South Florida Sun-Sentinel ^ | April 30, 2013 | Paula McMahon

Posted on 05/01/2013 6:57:24 AM PDT by ConservativeStatement

Customs agents thought something didn't seem right with the coconuts that arrived at Port Everglades. When they looked closer, they found 90 of them were hollowed out and stuffed with pounds of cocaine.

The routine inspection of a container of produce shipped from the Dominican Republic to Fort Lauderdale turned up bags that were missing labels.

Federal agents put tracking devices into some of the fruit and let them be delivered to a produce-importing business in Miami, leading investigators to two men who unloaded and separated out the suspicious bags and a third man who took them to his home.

(Excerpt) Read more at sun-sentinel.com ...


TOPICS: Local News
KEYWORDS: cocaine; coconuts
A modern day version of Harry Nilsson's "Coconut."
1 posted on 05/01/2013 6:57:24 AM PDT by ConservativeStatement
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To: ConservativeStatement

Are you suggesting coconuts migrate?


2 posted on 05/01/2013 6:58:58 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: dfwgator
We need to celebrate “limes.”
3 posted on 05/01/2013 6:59:43 AM PDT by ConservativeStatement (Obama is the "Disco Duck" president. A no-substance novelty that reached number one.)
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To: ConservativeStatement

“They put the blow in the cocnut and snorted it all up...”


4 posted on 05/01/2013 7:02:11 AM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: ConservativeStatement
I was thinking of Benny Hill singing “I've Got a Lovely Bunch of Coconuts”
5 posted on 05/01/2013 7:02:36 AM PDT by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both)
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To: BenLurkin
I was thinking of Benny Hill singing “I've Got a Lovely Bunch of Coconuts”

"You boasting again?"

6 posted on 05/01/2013 7:03:01 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: ConservativeStatement

You take the coke and the coconuts and put them both together.
You put the coke in the coconuts then you feel better


7 posted on 05/01/2013 7:10:49 AM PDT by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight,, he'll just kill you.)
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To: dfwgator

African swallows could carry them by the husk. Just ask Patsy


8 posted on 05/01/2013 7:12:23 AM PDT by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight,, he'll just kill you.)
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To: BenLurkin

9 posted on 05/01/2013 7:13:42 AM PDT by Slyfox (The Key to Marxism is Medicine ~ Vladimir Lenin)
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To: ConservativeStatement

But we have all the coconuts we need right here in Ft. Lauderdale!

People trim huge clumps of them from their trees and put them out in the trash.

Of Course, they aren’t stuffed with cocaine.


10 posted on 05/01/2013 7:19:58 AM PDT by left that other site ((Ban the ubiquitous and deadly solvent, Di-hydrogen monoxide!!!))
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To: ConservativeStatement

Now we know why Gilligan was always so wired. And why the Professor made everything out of coconuts.


11 posted on 05/01/2013 7:21:48 AM PDT by circlecity
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To: ConservativeStatement

You put de lines in de coconut deen you feel bettah....


12 posted on 05/01/2013 7:24:24 AM PDT by circlecity
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To: ConservativeStatement
leading investigators to two men who unloaded and separated out the suspicious bags and a third man who took them to his home.

Harry Lime lives, and is still in business!
13 posted on 05/01/2013 7:31:41 AM PDT by Dr. Sivana (HRC:"Sometimes she looks like a primary schoolgirl and sometimes a pensioner going shopping,"-NKorea)
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To: dfwgator

Laden with Bolivian Marching Powder, transported by robust English sparrows, coconuts may achieve air speed of Mach 2. It’s all just a part of this rich tapestry we call life.


14 posted on 05/01/2013 7:42:16 AM PDT by tumblindice (Muslims: Let's turn them inside outside)
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To: Dr. Sivana

Nice catch!


15 posted on 05/01/2013 7:46:00 AM PDT by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both)
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To: tumblindice
what your favorite color?.. careful now. :-D

16 posted on 05/01/2013 7:48:48 AM PDT by skinkinthegrass (who'll take tomorrow,$pend it all today;who can take your income,tax it all away..0'Blowfly can :-)
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To: skinkinthegrass

Plaid, before they kilt it.


17 posted on 05/01/2013 7:50:03 AM PDT by tumblindice (Muslims: Let's turn them inside outside)
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To: tumblindice

lol


18 posted on 05/01/2013 7:51:21 AM PDT by skinkinthegrass (who'll take tomorrow,$pend it all today;who can take your income,tax it all away..0'Blowfly can :-)
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To: tumblindice

“Wrong! Zot.” Call me Tim


19 posted on 05/01/2013 7:51:54 AM PDT by tumblindice (Muslims: Let's turn them inside outside)
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