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Cocaine-Stuffed Tamales Seized at Houston Airport
ABCNews ^ | August 23, 2014 | BEN CANDEA

Posted on 08/23/2014 8:08:44 PM PDT by Steelfish

Cocaine-Stuffed Tamales Seized at Houston Airport Aug 23, 2014, By BEN CANDEA

PHOTO: U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers at the George Bush Intercontinental Airport in Houston stopped a would be smuggler from bringing nearly 7 ounces of cocaine into the country in tamales, Aug. 22, 2014. U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers at the George Bush Intercontinental Airport in Houston stopped a would be smuggler from bringing nearly 7 ounces of cocaine into the country in tamales, Aug. 22, 2014. U.S. Customs and Border Protection File this under "ways not to smuggle drugs."

U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers said they found about seven ounces of cocaine stuffed inside some tamales while screening a passenger at George Bush Intercontinental Airport in Houston on Wednesday.

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1 posted on 08/23/2014 8:08:44 PM PDT by Steelfish
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To: Slings and Arrows

Ping


2 posted on 08/23/2014 8:14:24 PM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: Steelfish

Let’s see... 7oz = 140gm...or 2000.00... imagine what they could stuff in a frozen whole snapper.


3 posted on 08/23/2014 8:16:05 PM PDT by txhurl (2014: Stunned Voters do Stunning Things!)
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To: Steelfish

Ay yi yi . . .


4 posted on 08/23/2014 8:16:45 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler (Conservatism is the political disposition of grown-ups.)
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To: Steelfish

Chilly today, Hot ......


5 posted on 08/23/2014 8:17:02 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: Army Air Corps

What irritates me is no way Americans are doing all these drugs. We’re just a hub.


6 posted on 08/23/2014 8:17:23 PM PDT by txhurl (2014: Stunned Voters do Stunning Things!)
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To: Steelfish

Criminal waste of a perfectly good tamale...


7 posted on 08/23/2014 8:22:31 PM PDT by Caipirabob (Communists... Socialists... Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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To: Army Air Corps
Cocaine-Stuffed Tamales Seized at Houston Airport

I prefer green chiles and jalepenos.

8 posted on 08/23/2014 8:26:44 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows ("Your Daddy Was Drunk and Your Mama Was Lonely" - http://youtu.be/4HYy62qiOwA)
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To: Steelfish

Never cared for tamales.


9 posted on 08/23/2014 8:27:16 PM PDT by mylife
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To: Slings and Arrows

Amen.


10 posted on 08/23/2014 8:28:16 PM PDT by mylife
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To: Steelfish

200 tamales in his luggage, and customs decides to search everyone? Can we say TIP?


11 posted on 08/23/2014 8:31:56 PM PDT by kingu (Everything starts with slashing the size and scope of the federal government.)
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To: Steelfish
"never get between Michelle and a tamale" - BO


12 posted on 08/23/2014 8:39:41 PM PDT by RightGeek (FUBO and the donkey you rode in on)
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To: Steelfish

Leave the gun. Take the tamales.


13 posted on 08/23/2014 8:41:39 PM PDT by chajin ("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
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To: Steelfish

Meth and heroin are so popular I didn’t realize anyone still used cocaine.


14 posted on 08/23/2014 8:44:06 PM PDT by CincyRichieRich (In Times of Universal Deceit, Telling the Truth Becomes a Revolutionary Act.)
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To: mylife

What?


15 posted on 08/23/2014 8:44:47 PM PDT by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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To: Slings and Arrows
Yow! Stuffem with cheese and beef, garlic an rice, mater sauce..


16 posted on 08/23/2014 8:49:16 PM PDT by mylife
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To: smokingfrog

Dey kinda bland for me.
Lotta hispanics make em sweet with pork and raisins.

Not my thang.

I like savory.


17 posted on 08/23/2014 8:51:33 PM PDT by mylife
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To: smokingfrog

Never truly had a HOT Tamale.


18 posted on 08/23/2014 8:55:02 PM PDT by mylife
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To: smokingfrog

I just do not get Tamales.

Its a ton of work and they aint that grand.


19 posted on 08/23/2014 8:59:08 PM PDT by mylife
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To: txhurl

28 grams in an ounce @ $100 per gram is $19,600.00


20 posted on 08/23/2014 9:06:00 PM PDT by BreezyDog
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