Authorities are trying to figure out how bricks of cocaine worth more than $1 million wound up in banana shipments delivered to three grocery stores in Washington state.
The drugs were found Sunday at Safeway stores in Woodinville, Bellingham and Federal Way.Produce workers at the Woodinville store were putting the bananas out on the sales floor when they saw something strange, said Sgt. Ryan Abbott with the King County Sheriff's Office."One of the boxes had brown paper in it, which caught their attention and then they looked further and found these bricks," Abbott said.
Claudia Murphy told CNN affiliate KOMO that 23 kilograms of cocaine were found hidden in a box of bananas at a Bellingham Safeway."I know that Safeway has been great and they went through every single box in their warehouse and all of their stores just to make sure there's no other issues," Abbott said.He said he's never heard of anything like this happening -- especially not at three stores on the same day.
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