Attention
all
Coke-heads!
Big score by
cops means
the price
you pay to
snort lines
will go up!
Seven Kilos
of Cocaine
Packed in
Chicken
Soup Nabbed
by Custom's
K-9 Team at
Dulles
This is
seven kilos
of cocaine
that won't
find its way
to the bars
in Solomon's
and
Lexington
Park.
STERLING,
Va.,
— Chicken
soup has
been known
to help cure
the common
cold, but
for one
traveler
arriving to
Washington
Dulles
International
Airport on a
cold, wintry
Saturday and
his awaiting
accomplice,
this soup
turned out
to be what
ailed them.
Jorge
Posada-Guevara,
27, of El
Salvador,
and Hidsar
Henriquez-Parada,
34, were
arrested by
Immigration
and Customs
Enforcement
(ICE) agents
and Customs
and Border
Protection (CBP)
officers
after a CBP
canine
detected
about seven
kilograms of
cocaine
packed in
six boxes of
Maggi’s Sopa
Pollo con
Fideos
(chicken
noodle soup)
mix.
“As sister
agencies
within the
Department
of Homeland
Security,
CBP and ICE
have an
extraordinarily
close
relationship
and this
arrest and
seizure is
another
significant
example of
how both
agencies
routinely
partner to
stop illicit
products at
our nation’s
borders,”
said
Christopher
Hess, CBP
Port
Director for
the Port of
Washington.
Shortly
after 1 a.m.
on Saturday,
a CBP canine
team and ICE
agents were
on the
downstairs
ramp below
the
international
arrivals
terminal
screening
luggage that
arrived
aboard a
Taca
Airlines
flight from
El Salvador
when the
canine,
Milo,
alerted.
After
retrieving
his luggage
and soup
boxes,
Posada-Guevara
was referred
to baggage
inspection.
During the
inspection,
CBP officers
and ICE
agents
discovered a
white
powdery
substance in
a soup box
that
field-tested
positive for
cocaine.
Authorities
discovered a
total of 70
packets in
the six soup
boxes. The
combined
weight of
the cocaine,
packets and
boxes
equaled
7,422.5
grams,
roughly
seven and
one-half
kilos.
“Combating
narcotics
smugglers is
like a
high-stakes
chess match
and
protecting
our nation’s
citizens is
the prize,”
said Hess.
“Illicit
narcotics
organizations
attempt
creative
methods to
smuggle
their deadly
poison into
the United
States, and
law
enforcement
organizations
like CBP and
ICE remain
steadfast in
exposing
these
methods.”
