A Drug Cartel Is 'Selling' Lawn Decorations on Amazon to Hide Their Meth Shipments
their unconventional pharmaceutical products into packages that are advertised aspackages under the cover of the company’s interna
tional shipping services. Presumably the disguised items are shipped to overseas cronies or whatever the next stop is in the global trafficking journey. Saccounts have been flagged for having been potentially involved in such schemes, Forbes writes. Agents from the federal Homeland Security Investigations office and Amazon recently discovered that a “global narcotics organization” was behind the ploy. The method is being used to transport multiple kilos of narcotics at one time, Forbes writes:
So far, police have seized two packages from the suspicious vendor accounts that contained “bulk controlled substances.” One was intercepted on October 28 by Customs and Border Protection in Louisville, Kentucky, before it could make its way to its destination in Australia. It contained over 5 kilograms of methamphetamine. Three days later, on Halloween, Amazon and HSI agents in Michigan inspected a parcel claiming to contain pre-owned slate stone for toy railways and garden pots.
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