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Border Patrol Found $400k Worth Of Liquid Cocaine In Shampoo Bottles At Houston Airport

Ashe Schow
Border Patrol Found $400k Worth Of Liquid Cocaine In Shampoo Bottles At Houston Airport
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U.S. Customs and Border Protection were surprised to discover liquid cocaine packaged inside 24 bottles of shampoo inside a man’s suitcase at the Houston airport.

The bottles totaled 35 pounds and contained $400,000 worth of liquid cocaine, Fox 10 Phoenix reported. Officers at the George Bush Intercontinental Airport discovered the drugs, thanks to a K9 unit, and questioned the man who was carrying them, a 26-year-old  Columbian citizen, after he picked up the checked luggage. From Fox 10:

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