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Police 'avocado' four smugglers
CHICAGO -- Chicago police have seized the most expensive guacamole known to man
in a messy drug smuggling take-down, the Chicago Tribune reported Tuesday. Four
men are in custody after police got a tip about cocaine arriving in a shipment
of avocado paste from Mexico. The high-grade 2-kilo bricks of cocaine concealed
in 180 buckets of dip are worth $39 million, police said. The announcement was
made Monday, but the arrest and recovery began Friday when undercover
investigators watch the four men load a flatbed truck with the tubs. They were
then tailed to a warehouse recently rented by one of the suspects. One of the
key-tip-offs for police was neither the truck nor warehouse was refrigerated,
as is customary with frozen food. Prosecutors say they plan to push to extend
the minimum 15- to 60-year sentences for drug possession to minimum of 30- to
120 years. No value was given for the 26,000 pounds of guacamole destroyed.
Charles Mims
http://www.the-sandbox.org
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