Mexican cocaine found in frozen sharks

Carleton Bryant The Washington Times - June 17, 2009, 06:04AM

Mexico’s navy has seized more than a ton of cocaine hidden inside the carcasses of frozen sharks, the BBC is reporting.

Using X-ray machines and sniffer dogs, authorities found packages of cocaine inside more than 20 sharks on a freighter in the Gulf coast port of Progreso.

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Correspondents say cartels are coming up with increasingly creative ways of smuggling drugs into the U.S., the BBC reports.

Despite finding the cocaine, authorities aren’t sure this case was a smuggling attempt because they also found the presumed smuggler in one of the sharks.

I’m sure that the captain of the freighter said he didn’t know the sharks had such a big drug habit.

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Carleton Bryant

Carleton Bryant is a senior editor at The Washington Times, where he oversees the National and Metropolitan desks. He also serves as the newsroom’s internship coordinator. He has served as an assistant managing editor; a National, Metropolitan and Features desk editor; an assistant National desk editor; and a reporter on the National and Metro desks.