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May 31, 2008
Topics cocaine, police, houston, mexican, jesus, led, drugs, bus, paper, dogs, water, woman and man
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.
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February 4, 2008
A 62-year-old grandmother was arrested by Broward County deputies after she was caught possessing cocaine stuffed inside her bra during a raid inside her residence in Oakland Park, Fla. Arrested was Henrietta Corvin Daise, and eight others, many of them her grandchildren.
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January 14, 2008
A man posing as a Catholic priest was apprehended at Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport after a routine body check found the man to be carrying 7 lbs of cocaine under his robes. According to Dutch police, they got suspicious of the man whose identity had been withheld when they spotted him in line at a different gate after initially refusing to undergo a routine body check "for religious reasons. "
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January 10, 2008
Topics couple, money, police, tears, crack, cocaine, bad, drugs, marijuana, big, bank, help and people
A couple that recently moved in to an apartment were in for a surprise upon discovering about $12,000 in cash inside the refrigerator. Colleen Mesler, 65, said that she found the bills in the freezer, when her husband Jim asked her to throw the tray out. The cash was seen deteriorating and covered with mold, and wrapped in tin foil.
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October 9, 2007
Examining an odd parcel from Peru containing 100 dead beetles, Dutch customs officers were shocked to discover some 300 grams of cocaine, with an estimated street-value of USD11,270. Officers said they decided to open the parcel after scanning it and seeing what appeared to be insects inside. When slit opened, the little drug couriers' bodies yielded the illegal substance.
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