NATION : Coke Found in Load of Apples
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NEWARK, N.J. — Federal agents today said they seized 871 pounds of Colombian cocaine valued at $40 million in a truckload of apples and arrested two people.
The drugs were concealed in boxes of apples from California and Washington in the back of a 45-foot tractor-trailer, said Victor Pedalino, Drug Enforcement Administration agent.
“It’s probably the most expensive apples that have ever arrived in the state of New Jersey,” he said.
He would not give details of the operation but said surveillance led to the truck, which they seized in a parking lot near Newark International Airport.
The driver, Sugundino Reyes Flores, a 36-year-old Cuban, was arrested on drug charges. Also arrested was Carlos Arturo Ceron, 33, a Colombian who authorities said organized the shipment.
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