Cardboard box cocaine smugglers; GANG HIDES CRACK-PACKED STRAWS IN CORRUGATED PACKAGING.

From: The Evening Standard (London, England) | Date: January 13, 2005 | Copyright information

Byline: JUSTIN DAVENPORT

GANGS are using "ingenious" new smuggling methods to traffic crack cocaine into Britain.

Police today released pictures of a cardboard box which had a kilogram of crack cocaine, worth nearly [pounds sterling]80,000, inserted into its lining.

The package was sent by courier from Jamaica to an address in Clapham, but was intercepted at Stansted during a routine customs search. The smugglers had filled 600 drinking straws with the drug and inserted them into the corrugated lining of the box, which was packed with tourist trinkets.

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