Another Major drug seizure at Coventry Airport
07.12.06
Cocaine worth more than £150,000 has been seized at Coventry Airport - hidden in a consignment of buttons.
Smugglers had put small amounts of cocaine into 681 buttons in a package being sent from Brazil to London. When customs officers prised the backs off the buttons they found each contained two grams of the drug, which was 70 percent pure, wrapped in clear plastic. It had a street value of £166,500.
HM Revenue & Customs, which discovered the consignment at the International Freight Hub at the airport, would not say how they identified the package as suspicious.
Detection manager, Neil Goodban, said: 'This latest seizure shows the skills and experience of our dedicated teams of officers in detecting this dangerous drug, despite the ever-inventive methods used by drug smugglers.'
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