{"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.<\/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":"\n