Cops Find $10 Million Worth Of Cocaine Inside Blinged-Out Horse’s Head:
“New Zealand made its biggest ever cocaine bust after finding $10 million worth of the drug stashed inside a diamante-encrusted sculpture of a horse’s head.
Police officers and customs officials seized the artwork, which weighed 880 pounds, shortly after it was freighted into the country from Mexico in early May.’They opened it up and were stunned to discover 35 bricks of high-grade cocaine inside.
‘This is obviously an extremely large amount of cocaine, and in the past we’ve only found very small amounts of this drug,’ Detective Senior Sergeant Colin Parmenter, from the Organised Crime Auckland squad, said in a statement on Saturday.
‘Prior to this, the average amount of cocaine seized by police each year was around 250 grams (0.5 pounds). What this find tells us though is that there is obviously a demand for it,’ he added.
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(Via More at Huffinton Post.)