COLOGNE, GERMANY – A recent shipment of bananas were bound for more nefarious places than just a standard grocery store. Authorities in Cologne, Germany have uncovered the city's biggest drug seizure to date, uncovering 847 pounds of cocaine in the fruit shipment.
The 384 kilograms of the drug, according to news source RT, was found hidden within 26 cases of bananas that originated from Ecuador. The drugs were packaged in hundreds of one-kilogram (or, roughly 2.2 pounds) packages mixed amongst the fruit.
The bananas, and their odious passengers, were reportedly bound for Hamburg, Germany, before being shipped to a fruit wholesale company in Leverkusen, just north of Cologne. An employee alerted authorities to the haul after discovering the drugs in a storage room.
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Investigators also discovered another unexpected traveler tucked in the shipment, as a GPS transmitter was soon uncovered in one of the boxes.
“The investigators are currently assuming that the drug traffickers wanted to find the narcotics in large warehouses faster through this device,” said the Prosecutor’s Office for the Cologne Police and Customs Office in a statement online.
Thus far, all the packages have tested positive for cocaine, though the total street value of the seizure has not yet been released.
What strange pairings will fresh fruit and wilted criminals find themselves in next? AndNowUKnow will report.
