USA. Heroin in Soups and Lollipops: How Drug Cartels Evade Border Security
USA. Heroin in Soups and Lollipops: How Drug Cartels Evade Border Security
BALTIMORE — The tip came on the last day of January 2014 to special agents from Immigration and Customs Enforcement: A drug courier was about to land at the Baltimore airport with a large shipment.
Hours later, the agents asked the man, Edgar Franco Lopez, a Guatemalan, to search the three large duffel bags he was loading in a car outside the airport. But agents found only food. So they bluffed, saying they had found evidence of drugs in the bags.
The driver, Edwin Quintana Carranza, a Mexican in the United States illegally who had claimed the bags were his and consented to the search, confessed. The drugs were hidden in the sugar wafers, he said. (NYT, 02.12.2017)
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/02/us/politics/drug-cartels-border-security-traffickers.html