10 Most Bizarre Items Found at U.S. Border Checkpoints

— June 14, 2014 Comments Off 1983

9. Not-so-sweet Treat

Incorporating your drugs in a shipment of some type of food is a clever idea that may be just a tad overused at this point. One smuggler found this out the hard way when a shipment of chocolate candy was actually found to be chocolate-covered cocaine. Border agents at JFK International Airport in New York discovered the shipment in 2010.

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