FLASHBACK: 35 Pounds Of Cocaine found at United Nations HQ

Do Not Return to Sender: 16 Kilos of Cocaine Mailed to U.N. Headquarters

A botched attempt at sending 16 killos of cocaine lands the drug in the mailroom of the United Nations

By Madison Gray | @madisonjgray | January 27, 2012 |

AP / United Nations, Paulo Filgueira

Gregory B. Starr, Under Secretary General of the United Nations for Safety and Security, displays a photo of two bags that contained 16 kilograms of cocaine seized last week at the U.N.'s mail intake center.

The powder, discovered January 16, was in two white bags meant to look like diplomatic pouches, stamped with a bogus U.N. logo and sent from Mexico City through a DHL shipping center in Cincinnati. But a real U.N. diplomatic pouch is blue, has a lock and features the authentic seal of the organization. By international law, those pouches are not normally inspected or opened.

Workers at the U.N.’s postal receiving center were screening the bag, which had no destination or return address, when the cocaine — which has a street value of $2 million — was found in hollowed-out notebooks. Browne said the bags likely wound up at the actual U.N. building by accident.

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Permalink Reply by apeman2502 on January 28, 2012 at 12:31am

Don't be so quick to judge. Around here at a Hawaiian resort area, sales were way down from the last several years. Dealers were stuck with ounces and pounds of this stuff that no one wanted. Perhaps some dealers were just sending product back and realized delivery would be unsuccessful without the suitable shipping container. I would start with the Rockefeller office complex first. Brother Nelson's last toot was on the floor of his office there. It took the child hooker 2 hours to figure out how to call the ambulance.

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Permalink Reply by Sidney Leibson on January 28, 2012 at 3:38pm

You got it all wrong! Nelson would have emptied the child hooker of her red corpusules and then gone for the toot......all else was correct

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Permalink Reply by apeman2502 on January 29, 2012 at 2:42am

No, Sidney, I got this one right. The youngster knew she should do things with discretion so she called her friend, another minor, and together they decided that their only alternative was to call an ambulance, which of course notified police. Maybe tradition dictated causing convulsions before further adventure, but being a healer in the community only permits me to publish the undeniable. It was in all the first editions. I hear he was quite nude and quite still by the time the ambulance arrived. Powder on the desk. Mistakes were made.

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Permalink Reply by Ragnarok on January 28, 2012 at 10:44am

Leftovers from last UN-christmas party.

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Permalink Reply by Cryptocurrency on January 29, 2012 at 4:08pm

Gives new meaning to women going off to the rest room to powder their face...

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Permalink Reply by Aslan Moonbeam on January 28, 2012 at 1:47pm

Right, by accident. Looks like a pay-off gone bad.

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Permalink Reply by TommyD on January 28, 2012 at 2:16pm

Whats the saying? For every one shipment that get seized, ten get through..... PARTY AT THE U.N.!!!!!!!

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Permalink Reply by Robert L. Fallin on January 28, 2012 at 2:23pm

Too bad it's no 35 pounds of pot. If it were, maybe the UN wouldn't start "a war a week."

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Permalink Reply by Christopher on January 28, 2012 at 5:09pm

Exactly man!

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Permalink Reply by apeman2502 on January 29, 2012 at 2:46am

"I never met an angry Pot-smoker," Robin Williams

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Permalink Reply by Nikki on January 28, 2012 at 2:50pm

With their diplomatic immunity, it's surprising they didn't just keep it instead of calling the police.

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Permalink Reply by Christopher on January 28, 2012 at 5:15pm

U.N. spokesman; Martin Nesirky says neither the U.N. nor, anyone located at U.N. headquarters, was its intended recipient of the shipment.

How come, when some insignificant 'perp' gets busted, and only for a few grams of drugs [28 grams per ounce - 1000 grams per kilo], the police and, the mainstream media, always make it a point to give us the "Street Value" of the drugs which were found - did they do that this time?

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