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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Cocaine mistakenly sent to UN headquarters
2012-01-27
[Iran PressTV] - A 16 kilo consignment of cocaine that Mexican narcos recently lost has turned up in an unlikely place - the United Nations
...boodling on the grand scale...
 in New York.
 
Police and UN officials Thursday described how two fake UN bags containing the drugs - which experts said had a street value of about $2 million - set off a security alert when they were delivered, apparently by accident, to the global body's headquarters.
 
The bags, which had the UN symbol printed on them, were shipped from Mexico through the DHL delivery company's center in Cincinnati, Ohio, Deputy Commissioner Paul Browne of the New York Police Department told AFP.
 
But the bags had no address on them, nor any return to sender details.
 
"It is my understanding that because there was no addressee, the DHL just thought well that's the UN symbol so we should ship it on to UN headquarters and let them figure out who it was supposed to go to," Browne said.
 *boggle*
But the two UN bags were "obvious fakes" and were quickly intercepted by security staff when they arrived on January 16. The bags contained about 14 hard cover books which had been hollowed to create space for the cocaine.
 
"The working theory now is that possibly it was never meant to have left Mexico at all," the deputy commissioner said, adding that the bags were "a bad fake."
 
"Somebody in Mexico is probably in trouble now having let a significant amount of cocaine out of their possession," he added.
Posted by:trailing wife

#9  Spot: yeah. The mistake is, security staff caught it, and probably got canned for being so meticulous.

Can't find a link just now, but I could swear a few years ago someone swabbed the UN HQ bathroom counters and found lots of cocaine residue.
Posted by: RandomJD   2012-01-27 15:37  

#8  So, maybe it was meant for the UN High Commissioner...
Posted by: Sgt. Mom   2012-01-27 12:05  

#7  You keep using that word, unlikely. I do not think it means what you think it means.
Posted by: swksvolFF   2012-01-27 10:23  

#6  Who says it was a mistake?
Posted by: Spot   2012-01-27 09:21  

#5  Ah, yes, the famous payment in kind for dues.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2012-01-27 08:36  

#4  Might actually improve the UN function. Can't get much worse.
Posted by: JohnQC   2012-01-27 08:06  

#3  That certainly explains the latest human rights report by Human Rights Watch. The pay off just came in.
Posted by: badanov   2012-01-27 07:03  

#2  "Somebody in Mexico is probably in trouble now...

"Lucy, you got some 'splainin' to do!"
Posted by: SteveS   2012-01-27 00:59  

#1  Dammit! How many times have I told you - bring it in the BACK DOOR! I swear you just can't find good mules these days.

One wonders what else gets smuggled under the U.N. seal....
Posted by: CrazyFool   2012-01-27 00:58  

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