A 61-year-old man was arrested for cross-border drug trafficking after police linked him to a Jesus statue made of cocaine.

Bernardino Garcia-Cordova admitted the statue was his after the woman, who was paid $80 to carry two religious statues over the Mexican border, led police to him. She told authorities she did not know the statue was made of drugs and invited them to follow her when she was to drop off the statues at a bus station. That's when they found Garcia-Cordova.

He is charged with cocaine importation, possession with intent to distribute cocaine and conspiracy.

At the border crossing drug-sniffing dogs alerted authorities, who found one of the statues to be entirely made of cocaine.

The Houston Chronicle reported the statue could have contained as much as six pounds of the drug in paste form. They estimated its street value at $30,000.

The paper also speculated that the statue would have been broken down in water, then the cocaine would be sifted through a strainer and dried to be sold on the streets.