- Canadian grocery stores received surprise shipments of bananas stuffed with cocaine.
- The police determined that a traffic disorder led them to the stores.
- The cocaine bricks were big enough that everyone in his home town was given six shots.
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Two grocery owners in British Columbia, Canada, were surprised in February 2019 when they opened shipments of bananas to find blocks of cocaine, according to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.
After an investigation of almost two years, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police determined that the boxes that arrived at the two stores should not be delivered there, the police said in a statement.
The drug section of the Kelowna RCMP Street Enforcement Unit worked in collaboration with the Canadian Border Service Agency (CBSA) to determine that these shipments originated in Colombia,
Cpl. Jeff Carroll of the Kelowna RCMP Drug Section 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 somewhere along the way.
Blocks of cocaine were placed on banana shipments that reached British Colombian supermarkets.
Canadian Royal Mounted Police
The shipments originated in Colombia, but probably landed in the city of Kelowna due to a mistake, police said.
If the boxes had not been intercepted by the confused grocery stores, they could have introduced 800,000 doses of cocaine into the drug market, the police said.
“This is enough contraband for each resident in the city of Kelowna to receive almost 6 doses each,” said police. “These two seizures in southern British Columbia have undoubtedly saved precious lives across Canada.”