IT APPEARED to be all about the snacks for a group of passengers boarding an MSC transatlantic cruise departing the Caribbean last month. Officials wondering why the cruisers were bringing so many bags of Cheetos Puffs on board were later surprised to find that they actually contained about US$2.6 million...
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IT APPEARED to be all about the snacks for a group of passengers boarding an MSC transatlantic cruise departing the Caribbean last month.
Officials wondering why the cruisers were bringing so many bags of Cheetos Puffs on board were later surprised to find that they actually contained about US$2.6 million worth of cocaine.
A total of 12 people were arrested in Portugal after the MSC Opera arrived in Madeira after cruising across from the Caribbean, according to the UK’s National Crime Agency.
The Cheetos bags allegedly held 18kg of the drug which was seized in a joint operation with Portuguese officials.
Police said the seizure had “seriously disrupted an organised crime group looking to traffic cocaine into the UK and Europe” – that’s one heck of a ‘snaccident’.
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