{"id":99615,"date":"2023-10-04T17:04:12","date_gmt":"2023-10-04T17:04:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebritycovernews.com\/?p=99615"},"modified":"2023-10-04T17:04:12","modified_gmt":"2023-10-04T17:04:12","slug":"brazilian-cops-seize-2-5kg-of-cocaine-hidden-inside-frozen-fish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebritycovernews.com\/world-news\/brazilian-cops-seize-2-5kg-of-cocaine-hidden-inside-frozen-fish\/","title":{"rendered":"Brazilian cops seize 2.5kg of cocaine hidden inside frozen fish"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Brazilian cops seize 2.5kg of cocaine hidden inside frozen fish on Amazon riverboat<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Brazil&#8217;s Federal Police confiscated 2.5 kilos of cocaine that were concealed in frozen fish<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>The fish were left inside a refrigerator on a boat that was docked in Tonantins, Amazonas<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Brazilian police have confiscated 2.5 kilos of cocaine that was concealed inside frozen fish on an Amazon riverboat.<\/p>\n<p>Cops made the discovery while conducting an inspection on boats that were docked in the Tonantins, Amazonas, last Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Footage released by the Federal Police shows a cop slicing open one of fish, where the cocaine was hidden by the drug traffickers.<\/p>\n<p>The traffickers split two-and-a-half kilos into four plastic-wrapped packages.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/04\/15\/76163223-12593347-image-a-8_1696430437669.jpg\" height=\"845\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Cops in Tonantins, Brazil, confiscated a cocaine shipment of 2.5 kilos concealed within fish that had been left in the refrigerator of a boat for drug traffickers to pick up<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/04\/15\/76163221-12593347-image-m-11_1696430489636.jpg\" height=\"867\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>An agent with Brazil&#8217;s Federal Police opens one of the four frozen ship that drug traffickers recently used to hide 2.5 kilos of cocaine<\/p>\n<p>Each small bundle of cocaine was covered with a black sheet that was sealed with plastic and then placed in the fish.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Witnesses told police that the suspects arrived on a motorcycle taxi and left the cocaine-stuffed fish in the vessel&#8217;s refrigerator.<\/p>\n<p>Traffickers would have then removed the drugs during an upcoming annual fish fairs scheduled across Amazonas.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;These traffickers should receive a double sentence, for the crime of trafficking and for wasting food,&#8217; a resident said, according to local media.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The drug bust was made public for the first time Tuesday as Federal Police investigators continue to search for the suspects involved.<\/p>\n<p>Drug trafficking is punishable with up to 15 years in prison, according to Brazilian law.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/04\/15\/76163217-12593347-image-m-14_1696431216681.jpg\" height=\"676\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Each fish contained a plastic-wrapped bundle with cocaine inside that was stored inside a refrigerator of a boat that was docked in the Brazilian city of Tonantins\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/04\/15\/76163247-12593347-image-m-12_1696431163862.jpg\" height=\"669\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Drug traffickers in Brazil attempted to outsmart law enforcement by placing bundles of cocaine inside four frozen fish<\/p>\n<p>The concealment of the cocaine inside the fish is the latest example of how drug traffickers are always seeking to outsmart authorities.<\/p>\n<p>In August, cops at El Dorado International Airport in Bogot\u00e1, Colombia, confiscated a box with 11 Virgin Mary figurines that smugglers used to hide 2.6 kilos of cocaine that were destined for Orihuela, Spain.<\/p>\n<p>In May, police at\u00a0Jos\u00e9 Mar\u00eda C\u00f3rdova International Airport in the Colombian city of Medell\u00edn intercepted a shipment bound for Spain that contained 1.6 kilos of cocaine concealed within three bags that contained a red liquid that were labeled as blood samples.<\/p>\n<p>Data released Tuesday by the United Nations\u00a0Office on Drugs and Crime showed that despite the COVID-19 pandemic, close to 2,000 tons of cocaine were produced in 2020.<\/p>\n<p>The U.N.&#8217;s Global Report on Cocaine 2023 also found that in 2022, coca crops covered some 2,300 square kilometers of Colombia&#8217;s territory, an increase of 13 percent from the previous year. The potential cocaine output rose 24 percent to 1,738 tons.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;The Covid-19 pandemic had a disruptive effect on drug markets. 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