Cocaine, Heroin Found in Backpack

(Loudonville, Ohio) Here's a somewhat atypical drug-smuggling story from last weekend.

From NBC4i.com:

A tractor-trailer full of plumbing supplies was recently delivered to the Mansfield Plumbing warehouse in Loudonville. Inside the semi was a backpack among the sinks, faucets and pipes.

Inside the backpack, workers found cocaine and heroin with an estimated street value of $2.5 million, police said.

The semi had not been opened since it left its port in Columbia.

Evidently, the truck was loaded and sealed in South America and no one looked at it until it arrived in Ohio. Call me flummoxed.

A rational assumption would be that a customs check was required to be performed somewhere along the route and prior to entering the U.S. I'd check the port of entry and determine why the shipment was not adequately inspected.

Tags: drugs, Columbia, Mansfield Plumbing