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Over $1M worth of cocaine found hidden in banana boxes at Washington Safeway stores
 [NYPOST] Officials in Washington state have opened an investigation after employees at three Safeway stores reported finding over $1 million worth of cocaine that was hidden in boxes of bananas.The contraband was first reported at a Safeway in Woodinville, about 20 miles northeast of Seattle, on Sunday, the King County Sheriff’s Office said. Employees were opening a box of bananas and found 22 kilos of cocaine ‐ the equivalent of over $550,000, according to Sherlocks. Later that day, employees at a Safeway in Bellingham ‐ in northwestern Washington, near the Canadian border ‐ found about Additional cocaine turned up in banana shipments at a Federal Way Safeway, but the total amount was unclear. The origins of the cocaine remained a mystery. "We do know it was all shipped from a central warehouse, but we don’t know where it originated yet, so that’s a work in progress," said Sgt. Ryan Abbott of the King County Sheriff’s Office. The Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) was handling the investigation, he added. Related: Cocaine: 2019-08-22 Best Buy deliveryman set elderly woman on fire and beat her to death: cops Cocaine: 2019-08-21 Dominican's Largest Drug Trafficking Gang Dismantled After Raids Cocaine: 2019-08-21 Group of drug dealers smuggling cocaine into #Libya arrested Posted by: Fred 2019-08-24 |
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