Pumpkins apparently filled with cocaine | Inquirer News

Pumpkins apparently filled with cocaine

/ 03:11 PM November 01, 2013

This image released by the Canada Border Services Agency, shows the inside of a pumpkin suspected of containing cocaine by Canadian border officials in Montreal on October 31, 2013. AFP / Canada Border Services Agency

MONTREAL—Canada’s border services agency say it has stumbled upon a different kind of Halloween surprise in some pumpkins this year.

Authorities believe three pumpkins found in a woman’s luggage at the Trudeau International Airport in Montreal airport on Thursday were stuffed with approximately 2 kilograms (4.4 pounds) of cocaine.

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Scanning equipment had detected masses inside the pumpkins. Those masses turned out to be bags filled with the chalky substance.

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A border agency spokeswoman was not able to say where the passenger was coming from or whether she was a Canadian citizen.

The Royal Canadian Mounted Police have taken over the investigation.

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TAGS: Cocaine, Crime, Halloween, Police, Pumpkin

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