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When "Cooked Rabbit" Is Actually Bricks Of Cocaine
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Jen Chung
Published Jan 4, 2011
Modified Jan 3, 2011
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Is cooked game really a good cover for drug smuggling? According to the Daily News, "A Yankee Stadium security guard claimed he was carrying a 'cooked rabbit' in his luggage - but airport inspectors found three bricks of cocaine."
Roger Levans allegedly declared he had food, including "cooked rabbit," on one of those pesky Customs forms after arriving from Guyana on a Delta flight. But then inspectors looked at his suitcases in the X-ray machine: The first two bags just had fruit and nuts, but when they got to the third one, the criminal complaint says Levans seemed "nervous and anxious." Naturally—that's where inspectors found "three brick-shaped packages wrapped in brown masking tape. A Customs and Border Protection agent poked them, revealing three kilos of cocaine."
Levans is free on $100,000 bail. He apparently works, under a private security firm, as a guard at Yankee Stadium.
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Jen Chung is a former WNYC and Gothamist editor.
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