The U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) said its officials have seized counterfeit Viagra pills, real cash, and more than 3 kg of real cocaine at two Puerto Rico airports during Columbus Day Weekend. The item did not make it to their destination.
The officials found more than 2 kg of cocaine layered inside 10 wooden boxes of soap at San Juan’s Luis Muñoz Marín Airport, which was headed to New York.
The officers also found more than 300 grams of cocaine hidden inside shower curtain rings, which were destined to Pennsylvania.
Last month, the officials busted a drug racket in Brooklyn. At the time, the amounts of money and cocaine prosecutors quoted to the New York Daily News were street-valued at $51.50 per gram, which means the street value of the soapy cocaine was more than $109,000.
In addition, the CBP said it found 960 Viagra 100mg tablets of sub-standard packaging and poor quality, indicating that they were counterfeit.
If the Viagra pills were not fake, they would have fetched more than $68,000, according to the officials.
Furthermore, the officers said they found nearly 1.5 kg of cocaine in packages at Rafael Hernandez Airport in Aguadilla, which were headed for Thailand, Spain, Israel, and Canada.
A K9 officer, who is a law enforcement officer who uses the skills of police dogs to assist certain duties, sniffed something strange in one of the packages from New York and found undeclared, vacuum-sealed cash of $29,400. The news was published in Miami Herald.
