Grocery store employees in Washington got a shocking surprise when they opened up shipments of bananas over the weekend: dozens of pounds of cocaine. Three Safeway grocery stores -- in Bellingham, Woodinville and Federal Way -- received the boxes of bananas that yielded the drugs, according to the King
There's always money in the banana stand, and there's apparently cocaine in the banana box. Over $1 million worth, in fact.The store in Woodinville was first to call police on Sunday at about noon and say they'd found the suspicious, brown-papered bricks -- labeled with the letters"CK" -- among the boxes of bananas.
"They were in the back in the produce area, and they were unstacking large boxes of bananas that they had just gotten in through a central warehouse, and as they were unstacking the bananas, two of the boxes caught their eye because they didn't have bananas in them," King County Deputy Ryan Abbott told Seattle ABC affiliate KOMO.
"It was very likely a mistake made," Bellingham Police Lt. Claudia Murphy told KOMO."This shipment was definitely not meant to come to these stores."All told, the street value of the drugs was over $1.25 million. All three stores received the boxes from a central warehouse in Auburn, Washington. The King County Sheriff's Office said all other shipments to Safeway grocery stores have been searched. They added,"Safeway has been extremely cooperative with police."
Authorities are still determining where the cocaine came from though, a task Abbott called a"complicated investigation."
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