{"id":3082,"date":"2015-05-07T18:19:08","date_gmt":"2015-05-07T18:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forcespenpals.net\/p=?3082"},"modified":"2015-05-07T18:19:08","modified_gmt":"2015-05-07T18:19:08","slug":"police-uncover-11m-of-illegal-drugs-delivered-to-aldi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forcespenpals.net\/gb\/news\/police-uncover-11m-of-illegal-drugs-delivered-to-aldi\/","title":{"rendered":"Police uncover \u00a311m of illegal drugs delivered to Aldi"},"content":{"rendered":"

When you work in a supermarket, the last thing you expect to come across is a container full of Class A drugs.<\/p>\n

However, that is exactly what workers across various Aldi stores discovered when they opened some mystery packages that were delivered to the stores by mistake.<\/p>\n

Over £11 million worth of cocaine was delivered by drug barons in Colombia to 13 branches of Aldi in Berlin, Germany.<\/p>\n

Packets of the class-A substance were found hidden in boxes of bananas that were delivered through the port of Hamburg.<\/p>\n

The unfortunate delivery was thought to be a "logistical mistake".<\/p>\n

The blunder is thought to have come about because drug barons will often conceal their illegal substances in ordinary shipments in order to pass through customs.<\/p>\n

Commenting on the discovery, a police spokesman, said in an interview with Der Tagesspiegel, "The cocaine obviously wasn’t meant for the supermarkets.<\/p>\n

"Anyone waiting to take that delivery will have quite a problem on their hands.”<\/p>\n

Officers searched more than 1,000 crates following the discovery but no more cocaine was found.<\/p>\n

However, this latest haul is not the first time drugs have unwittingly been delivered to the wrong place.<\/p>\n

Last year, American delivery company FedEx unwittingly discovered a drugs operation, when they inspected a defective package in Washington.<\/p>\n

Upon inspection, it transpired that a drug-smuggling business had delivered hundreds of illegal painkillers across America.<\/p>\n

In October 2014, 727lbs of heroin was uncovered by German police in a truck shipping pickled cucumbers and garlic from Iran. It is thought to be the single biggest seizure of illegal substances in decades.\"ADNFCR-2867-ID-801786656-ADNFCR\"<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Drugs were found in shipments sent to Aldi.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3611,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\nPolice uncover \u00a311m of illegal drugs delivered to Aldi - Forces Penpals GB<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/forcespenpals.net\/gb\/news\/police-uncover-11m-of-illegal-drugs-delivered-to-aldi\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Police uncover \u00a311m of illegal drugs delivered to Aldi - Forces Penpals GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Drugs were found in shipments sent to Aldi.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/forcespenpals.net\/gb\/news\/police-uncover-11m-of-illegal-drugs-delivered-to-aldi\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Forces Penpals GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2015-05-07T18:19:08+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Forces Penpals\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Forces Penpals\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/forcespenpals.net\/gb\/news\/police-uncover-11m-of-illegal-drugs-delivered-to-aldi\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/forcespenpals.net\/gb\/news\/police-uncover-11m-of-illegal-drugs-delivered-to-aldi\/\",\"name\":\"Police uncover \u00a311m of illegal drugs delivered to Aldi - 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