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Police in Kelowna, Canada, said on January 19, 2021 that 21 kilograms of cocaine were shipped from Colombia as part of a failed drug deal.
Kelowna RCMP
A failed drug trafficking operation resulted in hidden banana shipments of cocaine being accidentally sent to Canadian grocery stores, officials said.
Police in Kelowna said on Tuesday that 21 kilograms of cocaine were shipped from Colombia as part of the failed drug business, Global News reported.
“Our investigation leads us to believe that these illicit drugs should not end up in Central Okanagan and arrived here in the Okanagan Valley as a result of a lost collection somewhere along the way,” said Jeff Carroll, an officer with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police from Kelowna.
The discovery was originally made by workers at a Kelowna grocery store who found 12 packages of cocaine hidden under a banana shipment in February 2019.
Later that day, another grocer contacted the authorities about the discovery of the drug in the delivery of fruit.
Police seized the two shipments of cocaine, which are estimated to reach more than 800,000 doses, and launched an international investigation.