An alleged drug smuggler has been arrested JFK Airport Friday for allegedly making an attempt to import unlawful cocaine hidden in luggage of jumbo shrimp, federal prosecutors introduced Saturday.
Zacharie Scott, 22, an American citizen residing in Guyana, was caught with bundles of drug-laden shrimp in his luggage upon departure from an American Airways flight that arrived at Kennedy Airport from the South American nation on January 19.
Federal authorities stated Customs and Border Safety (CBP) brokers at JFK chosen Scott for secondary inspection and went by means of his baggage, the place they discovered what at first seemed to be two containers of jumbo shrimp.
Upon additional inspection, authorities stated, inspectors discovered hidden within the bundles of shrimp quite a few bricks of powder that had been later revealed to be cocaine. The packages weigh 18.45 kilograms in complete, they usually have an estimated avenue worth between $239,850 and $479,700.
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