If you think grocery stores are the place to get the healthiest bananas, think again! Two grocers in British Columbia, Canada, were surprised in 2019 when they found a shipment of bananas to be boxes of cocaine instead. Let that sink in!
Royal Canadian Mounted Police
It took around two years for the police to find out that the boxes were never intended to reach the grocery stores, according to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.
The shipment from Columbia ended up in Kelowna due to a drug-trafficking mix-up. The boxes had about 800,000 doses of cocaine. “That’s enough contraband for every resident in the City of Kelowna to receive nearly 6 doses each,” police said. “These two seizures in the BC southern interior no doubt saved precious lives across Canada.”
The drug section of the Kelowna RCMP Street Enforcement Unit worked collaboratively with the Canada Border Service Agency (CBSA) to determine that these shipments originated in Colombia,
Cpl. Jeff Carroll of the Kelowna RCMP Drug Section said in a statement. Our investigation leads us to believe these illicit drugs were not meant to end up in the Central Okanagan and arrived here in the Okanagan Valley as a result of a missed pickup at some point along the way.
Be careful where you get your bananas from!
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