Posted on 12/04/2009 3:53:26 PM PST by KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle
STERLING, Va. - A close inspection by Customs and Border Protection officers at Dulles International Airport turned up something unexpected. Inside a fully-cooked chicken they found cocaine with an estimated street value of $4,300. The 60.4 grams (2.3 ounces) of coke was found inside two small, clear plastic bags inside the chicken's cavity.
Officers discovered the white powdery substance during a secondary inspection after a flight from El Salvador arrived shortly after midnight Saturday. It tested positive for cocaine.
"CBP officers have seen many unique narcotics concealment methods, and they all present the same challenges to discover them. Our officers' inspection was very thorough and earned solid results," said Christopher Hess, Customs and Border Protection director for the Port of Washington.
The drugs and traveler, Wagner Mauricio Linares Aragon, 32, of Guatemala, were turned over to the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority Police. Customs also issued a detainer for Linares Aragon.
Ping. ;)
I have to admit, this is something that I never would have thought of.
Oh, what a terrible thing to do to a chicken.
Well, obviously, you're going to take this sort of thing personally... ;)
One of my wife’s favorite movies is a Canadian cartoon called “Hen Hop.” This gives new meaning to the phrase!
Not to mention Chicken Run! ;)
I always liked that one. When I worked, every night, I would wrap masking tape around a company pen and take it home and every morning I would bring the pen back.
In the meantime, at home, I was accumulating a roll of masking tape. It was just fun to watch everyone waiting for me to show up without the pen. They never did catch on.
SEE! Latinos just want to work in the poultry industry! Why do all you white patriarchal racists think they are smuggling drugs?!?
Oh.. wait...
I wish I had a comeback but I’m speechless.
I’m cracking up.
I understand, Bob. It's just a terrible thing. So sad.
I’ve heard that Tyson used to smuggle drugs inside his chickens back when he and clinton were in the drug game together down in Arkansas.
But he was said to have put his drugs in shipments of FROZEN chickens, so they couldn’t be easily searched.
Did not know those Amish people had migrated to Guatemala.
Where’s PETA on this?
Darned clever, those Swedes! ;)
Is this a chicken joke!!???
:<)
Well, if nothing else, they are inventive.
Do a lot of people bring chickens on international flights? Just wondering.
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