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Man's Cocaine & Chocolate Mixture Caught At JFK Airport
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Ben Yakas
Published May 21, 2010
Modified May 21, 2010
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A Connecticut man was caught at JFK Airport with $500,000 worth of cocaine stuffed in chocolate truffles and pistachio shells. Robert Lopera, a seemingly unemployed US citizen, flew into JFK from Medellin, Colombia, (best known because of Vincent Chase's notorious vanity project) on May 11th. Customs and Border Protection agents became suspicious when two bags full of "the chocolates and pistachios were unusually heavy," and discovered 15 pounds of cocaine inside—more specifically, balls of cocaine covered in delicious chocolate, and nut-sized cocaine cubes within the pistachio shells.
We can now put chocolate in the cocaine-smuggling hall of fame, along with flip flops, golf bags, pictures of Lindsay Lohan, and furniture.
In other coke headlines, the ex-wife of infamous NYC drug kingpin Frank Lucas, who was famously portrayed by Denzel Washington in the movie American Gangster, was busted trying to sell two kilos of cocaine in Isla Verde Carolina, Puerto Rico. Julianna Farrait-Rodriguez, 63, was caught after allegedly handing over the coke to a government informant in exchange for $60,000. According to Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge John Gilbride, she was selling the drugs "with the goal of sending them to be sold on the New York City streets while she [was] in comfort 2,200 miles away."
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