More than 20 bricks of cocaine, hidden in bales of bananas, were delivered to supermarkets in Canada. The first report came from the small town of Kelowna, Central Okanagan, British Columbia, where the owner of a small store found a dozen packages of coca inside his banana shipment. From The Independent:
“The Kelowna RCMP Street Enforcement Unit’s drug section worked in collaboration with the CBSA to determine that these shipments originated in Colombia,” Kelowna RCMP Drug Section Corporal Jeff Carroll said in a statement.
“Our investigation leads us to believe that these illicit drugs should not end up in the Okanagan Central and arrived here in the Okanagan Valley as a result of a lost collection at some point along the way.”
Experts estimate that the packages would have introduced more than 800,000 doses of crack into the Canadian market for illicit drugs, according to Kelowna RCMP.
This is enough for each resident in the city of Kelowna to receive almost 6 doses each, the force added.
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