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Article: Cardboard box cocaine smugglers; GANG HIDES CRACK-PACKED STRAWS IN CORRUGATED PACKAGING.
- Article from:
- The Evening Standard (London, England)
- Article date:
- January 13, 2005
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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.
Detectives warn gangs are smuggling large quantities of Class-A drugs into Britain ...