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Cologne Police Department
Authorities in western Germany uncovered more than 800 pounds of cocaine hidden in a shipment of bananas, April 2017.
German police say they intercepted 847 pounds of what they believe is cocaine in a shipment of bananas over the weekend.
A worker at a wholesale company in Leverkusen, just north of Cologne in western Germany, reported the suspected drugs to authorities on Saturday, $4 to the Associated Press.
Police found the drugs stored in hundreds of 1 kilogram packets hidden inside 26 cases of bananas that had arrived from Ecuador via the German port city of Hamburg.
Police also found a GPS transmitter in one of the cases, which they believed would be used to locate the shipment once it was inside a large warehouse.
While the value of the 384 kilogram shipment was not immediately known, in Europe, where drug prices can vary widely between countries, a gram of cocaine and cost anywhere between $4.
This seizure is only the latest cocaine shipment intercepted in mainland Europe, and it is not the first to use bananas for concealment.
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Cologne Police Department
Authorities in western Germany intercepted more than 800 pounds of cocaine hidden in a shipment of bananas, April 2017.
Two incidents in Spain late last year yielded more than $4 from shipments of bananas, both real $4. And $4 at Aldi food stores in Germany in 2014 and 2015 turned up more than 1,100 pounds of the drug.
Ecuador, which doesn't actually produce cocaine, has become $4 for the drug in recent years, patronized by smugglers who rely on $4 to conceal their wares.