CINCINNATI, Ohio – A U.S. customs drug dog alerted authorities about a shipment of breakfast cereals that were frozen with cocaine instead of sugar.
Federal authorities confiscated £ 44. of cocaine that had disguised itself as sugar in frozen cornflakes in Cincinnati last Saturday.
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U.S. customs and border protection agents said it had a street value of $ 2.8 million.
The shipment originated in Peru and was en route to a private residence in Hong Kong before US authorities seized them.
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Cincinnati Port Director Richard Gillespie said these days smugglers will hide narcotics in just about anything.
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