Cocaine Worth $1 Million Hidden in Bananas at Washington Safeway Stores: 'We Don't See That Very Oft

[TomSea]

Usually, this would go in "ridiculous news" but no, I think it is important enough for its own thread.

Cocaine Worth $1 Million Hidden in Bananas at Washington Safeway Stores: 'We Don't See That Very Often'
Jason Murdock

Police in Washington State are investigating after huge cocaine shipments were found at three Safeway stores, a haul reportedly worth more than $1 million.

Drugs were stuffed inside boxes of bananas at stores in the cities of Woodinville, Bellingham and Federal Way, KING5 reported, citing law enforcement sources. The cocaine appeared to have been sent to each location in similar quantities, marked with the letters "CK."

Police said 23 kilos of cocaine had been recovered in Bellingham and 22 kilos was recorded in the Woodinville store. The amount discovered in Federal Way was not immediately clear. Authorities said the Woodinville stash alone was valued at more than $550,000.

Read more at: https://www.msn.com/en-nz/news/world/cocaine-worth-dollar1-million-hidden-in-bananas-at-washington-safeway-stores-we-dont-see-that-very-often/ar-AAGb88F?li=BBSVbAt

[berdie]

Gives a whole new meaning to that old Harry Chapin song 10,000 pounds of bananas, doesn't it.

[mountaineer]

...  Produce staffers at the Woodinville Safeway were unpacking bananas from boxes and getting them ready to go out on the floor when they found some “suspicious-looking packages” that turned out to be cocaine and immediately called police, Abbott said.  ...

https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/crime/more-than-1-million-in-cocaine-found-in-banana-shipments-to-safeway-stores-in-western-washington/

Good to see they didn't regard it as some sort of windfall, and start stuffing it into their pants.

[Smokin Joe]

https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/crime/more-than-1-million-in-cocaine-found-in-banana-shipments-to-safeway-stores-in-western-washington/

Good to see they didn't regard it as some sort of windfall, and start stuffing it into their pants.

It's only trouble. They'd have to know someone well up in a local organization to introduce it at wholesale prices to known distributors, because a sudden influx of 'product' might be seen as competition in local markets which are not open to such. That it would be a temporary gain, but serious trouble with some nasty folks, and that makes it more beneficial to just turn it over to police.